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SUMMARY:DARIAH Virtual Exchange Session: The Scholarly Primitives of Schola
 rly Meetings
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 28th May 2020 | 14:00 UTC+1\n #DARIAHVX\n\nIf you work
  in research\, you have almost certainly seen at least one\, if not many\,
  meetings you had planned to attend be delayed\, transformed or removed en
 tirely from your diary. They may have been major conferences or smaller wo
 rkshops\, seminars with all new faces to you or project meetings with your
  regular collaborators\, but regardless of format or formality\, very few 
 of the opportunities we planned for knowledge exchange in physical spaces 
 have gone forward undisrupted in the past two months. The immediate pressu
 re for this may have been the COVID 19 pandemic\, but the pace and place o
 f scholarly meetings has been increasingly questioned in recent years. We 
 know that the intensity of a face-to-face meeting brings many benefits for
  collaboration and exchange\, but\, at the same time\, we are also being a
 sked to consider their cost in terms of the environmental impact of long-d
 istance travel\, the inequalities and biases they may engrain\, and the po
 tential impact on our mental\, emotional and physical healths.\n\nVirtual 
 exchange can surely be a support to finding the right balance between know
 ledge exchange that truly benefits from the expensive (socially\, environm
 entally\, personally\, economically) congregation of people in one place a
 nd more granular\, fluid\, but perhaps impoverished on-line interactions. 
 A virtual meeting and a situated one cannot be expected to do and achieve 
 the same things\, but the precise nature of this difference has not receiv
 ed as much attention as the urgency of the transition might merit. Virtual
  meetings are still in their incunabular phase\, where a new technology is
  expected to replicate the affordances of the old one\, with the losses it
  may represent and the new possibilities it may bring perhaps unrecognised
 . If we are to understand how to optimally use technology to support schol
 arship\, therefore\, we need to better understand not just the technology\
 , but more importantly\, what these meetings achieve for us and how.\n\nIn
  light of the recent postponement of the DARIAH Annual Event 2020 on the 
 topic of “Scholarly Primitives”\, we are proposing to hold a virtual e
 xchange session to reflect on the “Scholarly Primitives of the Scholarly
  Meeting”. An online exhibition of resources and ideas exploring the ma
 ny primitives of and issues surrounding scholarly meetings\, organised by 
 DARIAH-EU\, will be open from 21 until 28 May 2020. The exhibition will a
 ct as a pool of prompts and provocations for thought and conversation\, a 
 dialogue that will culminate in a 2-hour synchronous virtual exchange ses
 sion on the 28th (from 14:00-16:00 UTC+1).\n\nThrough this unique event\, 
 we hope to explore together the many functions scholarly meetings fulfill 
 in our lives\, including the respective potentials of the online and offli
 ne spaces at our disposal. We will look at what we value most enduringly a
 nd what we might no longer require within our current and emerging practic
 es of personal\, informal or semiformal exchange\, creating for 2020 a hig
 hly relevant response to the project which John Unsworth took on 20 years 
 ago to better understand scholarship through the lens of the primitive.
LOCATION:Virtual Event
URL:https://www.dariah.eu/events/dariah-virtual-exchange-session-the-schola
 rly-primitives-of-scholarly-meetings
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