Authors: Progressive Connexions Team Teresa Cutler-Broyles, Elif Çakmak, Rob Fisher, Lorraine Rumson, Susanne Schotanus Even though most of the 2019 conferences were postponed, the Progressive Connexions Board of Directors has been communicating on an almost daily basis to further develop different aspects of the ProCon vision and reality. Usually, the […]
Welcome to the September edition of the bimonthly Progressive Connexions Interdisciplinary Life newsletter. Upcoming… We are excited to report that in-person conferences are on the horizon again! Progressive Connexions will be reconvening in Lisbon next March, for the conferences that were postponed from summer 2020. We are hoping that […]
Author: Elena Xeni, elena_xeni@hotmail.com From the early lines of this mini-article, I need to admit that I am not at all of a ‘break’ type of person. I am not in the habit of taking a break from screen tasks and other responsibilities and duties on very or […]
Welcome to the July edition of the bimonthly Progressive Connexions Interdisciplinary Life newsletter. Upcoming… At Progressive Connexions, we’ve always been huge proponents of the way that personal connections develop in face-to-face conference settings. With COVID-19, of course, that’s on hold. We’ve been working around the clock to develop COVID-friendly […]
Welcome to the May edition of the bimonthly Progressive Connexions Interdisciplinary Life newsletter. Upcoming… Unfortunately, due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we need to inform you that our autumn conferences are being postponed. Please keep an eye on your inbox if you were signed up for an event, you’ll […]
Welcome to the March edition of the bimonthly Progressive Connexions Interdisciplinary Life newsletter. Upcoming… Unfortunately, due to both WHO information and national restrictions on travel, we have had to postpone our April conferences, which were planned for Lisbon on April 4th and 5th. We are so sorry that this happened! […]
Welcome to the January edition of the bimonthly Progressive Connexions Interdisciplinary Life newsletter. Upcoming… Progressive Connexions will be re-convening in beautiful Prague on March 7-8, for a suite of three exciting conferences. Two are returning topics after wonderful runs last March. Kristine Seitz will be running “Kink,” and Elena Nistor […]
I may be biased, but I’m a huge fan of historical reenactment villages. I love watching men in soldier’s uniforms and women in old-fashioned dresses swan around pretending to be from the past. Perhaps if you’ve been to one, you’ve seen a blacksmith demonstrating how to make a horseshoe, or […]
As we interact with the world around us, we constantly negotiate our relationships with other people, images, messages and the social scripts that govern our behaviour. Through this process, we encounter the knowledge, practices and perspectives of individuals from other walks of life or cultures whose experiences differ from our […]
How do we make sense of the return of Star Trek? A new version of the science-fiction franchise – a television series called Star Trek: Discovery is in production, set a few years before the time of the original, which brought global fame for William Shatner and the character Captain […]
