Before the lockdown this spring, I invited colleagues in the ETHOS Lab to host a local node of the online conference Distribute2020, the biannual conference of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and Society for Visual Anthropology (US).

A still from William Morrison (dir.) “Distribution // Logistics // Fulfillment”, shown at the Distribute 2020 Conference Film Festival https://distribute.utoronto.ca/groups/film-logistics-distribution-fulfillment/

When the closure of our university in Denmark meant that we had to move this event online, it meant experimenting with streaming, time-zones and creating a sense of community at a distance. What is an online node of an online conference?

We wrote up a blogpost about the experience, inspired by Michelle Bastian’s blogposts about #flyingless conference design, as well as Anand Pandian and Abiral Bürge and Mac Skelton’s commentaries on Displace18, the earlier SCA online-by-design conference in 2018.

The post, co-authored with Marie Blønd, Caroline Salling, Ester Fritsch and Marisa Cohn, is on the ETHOS blog, Metadata.