The death of the keynote
Doug Peterson,
doug — off the record,
Mar 25, 2021
I don't actually think keynotes are ending any time soon, and in fact, think that if anything out shift to online conferencing has magnified that impact. The reason for this is the relative decline in visibility of the other sessions at a conference (one conference I attended didn't even give the other papers a live stream). That's something I will address at a later date. Another reason is the even greater need to people to collect the different strands of a discipline to weave a compelling narrative. That, indeed, is what a good keynote does (in my view) and why, as Doug Peterson says, the keynote needs to be fresh and recently updated.
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