Timeline for Offer to chair a session - how should I decide whether to accept?
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| Mar 9, 2016 at 10:53 | comment | added | Fábio Dias | @ChrisH In my case, it was usually the other way around. The conference chair sent me the papers, but I didn't see the slides until the actual session.... vive les differences :) | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 8:54 | comment | added | Chris H | @FábioDias that depends on the conference format. In my field the chair may have access to the slides but not a paper in advance of the talk. This is also a field in which the chair is expected to have a question in reserve. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 4:18 | vote | accept | Della | ||
| Mar 7, 2016 at 22:20 | comment | added | E.P. | @Fabio yes, but the point is that it is not a purely administrative task and it does require nonzero academic capacities and attention, which the answer as posed does not include. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 22:10 | comment | added | Fábio Dias | @E.P. Indeed, that's the hardest part of 'chairing' a session. But nothing a couple hours with the respective papers won't solve. The questions don't need to be groundbreaking, therefore within reach of average senior phd students.. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 21:39 | comment | added | E.P. | Just a quick note that this doesn't quite cover the duties of the chairperson in all disciplines. In particular, in some fields there can be, depending on the situation, that the chair ask a question if there are no questions from the audience, so the chair is required to be competent enough to understand the talks and to pay enough attention to the talks to formulate at least one or two questions. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 19:51 | comment | added | corsiKa | I love that you made it bold and alone that you should. This is like when congressional staffers run papers to another office for their representative, or when doctors as interns are filing charts for the doctor they're supporting. It's a small step, but it's a position of responsibility without which the whole process wouldn't happen. Gotta start somewhere! | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 10:59 | history | answered | gerrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |