Having seen & heard accounts of panels at #kzoo19 getting canceled or losing speakers due to problems w/flights & the inability to obtain visas, we are once again made profoundly aware of the inseparability of political life from academic life. +
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Climate change (leading to canceled flights), international relations & racist policies that determine which bodies get to travel (visa issues) are ALL a part of the ecology of an academic conference. +
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In the end, the community of medievalists at Kalamazoo loses the richness that these absent voices would have contributed.
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Well, then there is the let's just reject the panels entirely from the MOCs. A thing that is both about current politics and the politics of #Kzoo19. So those weren't even canceled, they were just shut out.
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