A Busy 6 weeks or so
Jan. 27th, 2024 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pennswoodsThe semester officially starts Monday, but I am more occupied with preparing three talks for two upcoming conferences I am traveling to, one of which I am co-organizing, so there's a lot of stuff I have been pulling together for that. It is quite possible that i have overcommitted myself, but I think I can pull this off. Here's what's ahead:
4-11 Feb (Spain) - conference I am co-organizing running from 7-9 Feb. I am giving the opening keynote, co-moderating a pre-conference workshop, co-presenting another paper, and hosting a social my organization is paying for. I am president of this particular organization and we are hoping to launch two new SIGs (Special Interest Groups), announce our first organizational award, and hopefully recruit new members.
22-26 Feb (Arizona) - conference I am co-presenting at. This is going to be the lowest stress event but it also represents a chance to be somewhere warm in February.
28-29 Feb (DC) - roundtable on Virtual Exchange. I was invited here in my role as president of the organization only in December. It's a big deal to be a part of this and I am thrilled to be invited. I don't need to prepare in advance but I will be networking with people including funders of the hosting organization from the Bezos Foundation and the US State Department.
5-9 March (Calgary) - workshop and consultation with faculty. I'm being brought in based on my own expertise in this area. I am also getting paid for this, so that's going into my savings. I am doing another workshop (online and from home) the following week for a European organization, so there will be a lot of extra training going on at that point.
The good news is that I won't be traveling again until mid-April when I fly to Sweden for my PhD student's final defense. That trip will be more celebratory than work.
4-11 Feb (Spain) - conference I am co-organizing running from 7-9 Feb. I am giving the opening keynote, co-moderating a pre-conference workshop, co-presenting another paper, and hosting a social my organization is paying for. I am president of this particular organization and we are hoping to launch two new SIGs (Special Interest Groups), announce our first organizational award, and hopefully recruit new members.
22-26 Feb (Arizona) - conference I am co-presenting at. This is going to be the lowest stress event but it also represents a chance to be somewhere warm in February.
28-29 Feb (DC) - roundtable on Virtual Exchange. I was invited here in my role as president of the organization only in December. It's a big deal to be a part of this and I am thrilled to be invited. I don't need to prepare in advance but I will be networking with people including funders of the hosting organization from the Bezos Foundation and the US State Department.
5-9 March (Calgary) - workshop and consultation with faculty. I'm being brought in based on my own expertise in this area. I am also getting paid for this, so that's going into my savings. I am doing another workshop (online and from home) the following week for a European organization, so there will be a lot of extra training going on at that point.
The good news is that I won't be traveling again until mid-April when I fly to Sweden for my PhD student's final defense. That trip will be more celebratory than work.
