The Conference Ends without Closing…

Now that we’ve come to the end, the Compass team would like to say a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to everyone who has participated and made our first virtual conference an overwhelming success. The authors and presenters have been, without exception, engaging and professional to the last. We’d also like to extend a special note of thanks to our virtual attendees, who have kept the discussions alive with insightful commentary, and their openness to explore issues across disciplines.

There will be no new content uploaded to the site after Friday 30th October, but there is still much to discuss. All of the presentations and comments will remain on the website indefinitely, and we’d encourage you all to keep engaging with the content so long as there are issues to be explored, and interdisciplinary barriers to be broken down! If you sign up to receive email alerts of new comments, you can keep up with any ongoing conversations.

We sincerely hope you have enjoyed the conference – here are some things that you can do to stay in touch:

• Check out the Compass journals and recommend to your librarian. Researchers, teaching faculty, and advanced students will all benefit from the accessible, informative articles that provide overviews of current research. Personal subscriptions are now also available.
• Complete the post-conference opinion survey, coming to you next week. Your thoughts will help us make decisions about future conferences.
• If you have suggestions, or even just a short comment, you can pop it in our Suggestion Box or Email us
• Access the Publishing Workshops and Keynotes via iTunes (as from the conference website). The raw feed for the podcasts can be found here.
• Share our keynote video lectures via our Vimeo channel
• Tell others about your experience of the conference!

Final reminder: your 20% book discount token is valid until 15th November, so visit the book exhibit before then.

Until next time…?

Thanks again,

The Compass Team
www.blackwell-compass.com

Keynote Speaker, Author and Commentator Profiles Live!

Many thanks to all those of you who have ‘attended’ the conference thus far – it’s great to see some very stimulating conversations already developing.

We now have profile pages / PDFs available for all keynote speakers, authors and commentators, as well as for the organising Conference Committee and the Compass team:

PROFILES:

Keynote speakers

Authors and Commentators

Conference Committee

The Compass Team

Keynote Speaker Profile: Eileen Joy

Professor Joy will be giving her keynote lecture entitled ‘Reading Beowulf in the Ruins of Grozny: Pre/modern, Post/human, and the Question of Being-Together’ on Thursday 29th October

Eileen Joy is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (PhD University of Tennessee, 2001), and her main interests are in Old English literature, cultural studies, embodied affectivities, and ethics

Keynote Speaker Profile: Roy Baumeister

Professor Baumeister will be giving his keynote lecture entitled ‘ What is the Human Mind Designed for?’ on Tuesday 27th October

Roy F. Baumeister is currently the Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University. He grew up in Cleveland, the oldest child of a schoolteacher and an immigrant businessman. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology

Keynote Speaker Profile: Peter Ludlow

Professor Ludlow will be giving his keynote lecture entitled ‘Virtual Communities, Virtual Cultures, Virtual Governance’ on Monday 26th October

Peter Ludlow is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He has worked on a number of topics at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science, and has also published a number of works on the emergence of community and governance in virtual worlds

Keynote Speaker Profile: Mark G. Macklin

Professor Macklin will be giving his keynote lecture entitled ‘Floodplain Catastrophes and Climate Change: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Riverine Societies’ on Thursday 22nd October

Mark Macklin’s research is located at the intersection of geomorphology, Quaternary science and archaeology. He has written papers in these areas for Antiquity, Catena, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Geoarchaeology,

Keynote Speaker Profile: David Crystal

Professor Crystal will be giving his keynote lecture entitled ‘Language Death’ on Tuesday 20th October

David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster, and is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor

Keynote Speaker Profile: Roger Griffin

Professor Griffin will be giving a keynote lecture entitled ‘‘The Rainbow Bridge’: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity in the Cybernetic Age‘ on Monday 19th October

Roger Griffin is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University (UK) where he gives courses on fascism, modernism, and terrorism, and has written on a wide range of political, cultural, and socio-psychological phenomena relating to generic fascism and right-wing extremism

Keynote Speaker Profile: Regenia Gagnier

Professor Gagnier will be giving an introductory talk entitled ‘Why Interdisciplinarity?‘ on Monday 19th October

The books of Regenia Gagnier have shaped the study of Victorian and modern culture with highly influential work on decadence, aesthetics and aestheticism, lifewriting and subjectivity, economics, individualism, and globalization