Reading Clubs, Writing Retreats, and Why Academic Collaboration Needs to Go Beyond Conferences
There's a version of academic community that most of us know well. You submit an abstract, wait six months, travel somewhere, present your work for twenty minutes, attend a few panels, have some hallway conversations you mean to follow up on, and then go home. Two years later, you do it again.
This model has real value. But it has a structural problem.