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Meeting/Conference Announcement Lists
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Background
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From the earliest days to the present, scholarly societies have
played a strong role in organizing meetings and conferences to
discuss scholarly research in their areas of interest.
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Today the websites of most scholarly societies reflect this
tradition by providing information about future conferences and
meetings:
- Most scholarly societies websites maintain lists that
announce their own meetings and conferences.
- Scholarly societies with sufficient staff resources often
also maintain lists that announce other meetings and
conferences in the broad area of interest to members of the society.
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Locating the Lists
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Step 1:
Locate the website of a society that interests you, by
using either the
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Step 2:
Go to the website of the society.
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Step 3:
Locate the announcement list on that website by looking for
headings like
Events or Meetings or
Conferences.
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Note
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Prior to 2002, July 22,
this page consisted of a collection of links to pages announcing meetings
and conferences of interest to members of various scholarly
societies.
With the passage of time, it became too costly to maintain this page in
that form,
because of the very high frequency with which the URLs changed (even
when the top level URL for the society website remained constant).
As an alternative, we have provided the above instructions for locating
scholarly society
pages announcing meetings and conferences in a particular subject area.
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