so, à propos making our academic environments better, an anecdote.
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there once was a conference. its programme was announced. it was exciting. it was full. FULL. it had keynotes. several of them.
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all of them were by men.
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this got some attendees talking online. mostly junior scholars. PhD students, early career scholars, some very precariously employed, some not at all.
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there were a couple of notable and valuable contributions from established scholars. but mostly, early or barely career scholars.
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they did some tallying of past years. saw it was a thing. a thing that had apparently gone unaddressed by the regular attendees of the conference. because otherwise it wouldn't have been a thing anymore.
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it kept them talking during the conference. they wrote a thing. one totally kick-ass super established scholar volunteered to read the thing to the assembled conference. one much more junior established scholar did crucially important behind-the-scenes work.
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next year, the conference had a balanced line-up of keynotes, and it has had since. I hear it is doing good things at other fronts, too.
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now this is one anecdote, but we've all seen the dynamic replicated on other occasions.
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