This structure 35 Having one or more plenary sessions during the day 27 I would like to suggest in Decodings of having just one plenary, preferably one night. The plenaries in Atlanta, except on Thursday evening, were terrible, dull, and over intellectualized 2. The trouble with Sunday panels is that too many people leave to catch airplanes. Some of our recent meetings have had an overall theme, others not. It contributes to focus Limits the paper topics that are relevant.
Many panels end up being only tangentially related to the theme anyway.
Conferences should invite full range of work that people are doing in the field Provides a common conversation running through a diverse meeting. Focuses discussions, forces a little more discipline on presenters Lit and Science is itself a theme. Helps decide whether to attend Too restrictive. On the Website only 41 In a hard copy also 29 7. In Atlanta there were too many concurrent sessions.