{"id":88,"date":"2021-05-17T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2021-05-20T01:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T01:01:15","slug":"call-for-salons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/call-for-salons\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Salons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">One of the hardest parts of a physical conference to recreate online are the passionate conversations with small groups over dubious conference coffee about subjects of mutual interest. \u00a0<strong>Romantic Disconnections\/Reconnections<\/strong> is not going to be able to offer exactly this experience, but we would like to facilitate smaller-scale and more conversational exchanges along with the discussions in our panels and plenary sessions.\u00a0 We are keen that these exchanges be led by the interests of BARS\u2019 membership.<br><br>To this end, we invite proposals from individuals or small groups who would like to host a salon as part of the conference.\u00a0 A salon will be an informal meeting (on Zoom or another platform) organised around a specific topic of interest for which a limited number of people can sign up.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like to gather medical humanists attending the conference, or meet other people interested in Charlotte Smith, or have a really intense discussion about <em>Julian and Maddalo<\/em>, or just have a social chat with some like-minded people, please consider proposing a salon.<br><br>We will look to schedule most of the salons on the weekdays between the main two conference blocks (so on Monday 16<sup>th<\/sup>, Tuesday 17<sup>th<\/sup> and Wednesday 18<sup>th<\/sup> August). Proposals should give a title, a contact person, a short description of the proposed topic of discussion, a preferred time slot, and a maximum number of attendees.\u00a0The conference committee will try and ensure that there aren\u2019t too many clashes, and will set up a directory of salons for delegates to browse.\u00a0We will also handle Eventbrite sign-ups and set up Zoom meeting rooms as requested (although as a host, you\u2019re welcome to handle sign-ups yourself, or use an alternative platform).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">To aid organisation, we ask that proposals for salons reach us by the same date as paper proposals: <strong>Monday 28th June 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Please submit proposals for salons <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/yiBGsDZEbmK4vuo27\">using this Google Form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest parts of a physical conference to recreate online are the passionate conversations with small groups over dubious conference coffee about subjects of mutual interest. \u00a0Romantic Disconnections\/Reconnections is not going to be able to offer exactly this experience, but we would like to facilitate smaller-scale and more conversational exchanges along with the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/call-for-salons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call for Salons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bars.ac.uk\/conference2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}