"I forked out over $2000 to attend two conferences [..] at the second I was cut off half-way into my paper."
I have never seen this happen at any conference. It makes the author sound like a crackpot.
I have never seen this happen at any conference. It makes the author sound like a crackpot.
"There’s nothing quite like having an established academic decide that hearing eight minutes of the allotted twenty would be sufficient. As a self-funded under-employed contingent, I wasn’t going to say anything useful anyway."
How would this established academic know they're self-funded and under-employed?