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This is easy to understand, expert professor. Naturally, you have to have extensive knowledge and extensive reading, so that you can do things in your mind. Of course, it is not excluded that a very small number of "pseudo-experts" fill the scene by placing books.

Second place, certificate/trophy.

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It is not difficult to understand that experts and professors must have a lot of scientific research achievements to evaluate. How is the result reflected? Papers, works and topics won awards. If there are too many certificates/trophies, pick the most weighty ones and put them in the most conspicuous position in the office for others to "worship".

Third, photos of attending various academic conferences.

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Many people may not understand this.

I didn't understand it at first, but I couldn't help feeling: how can there be so many photos of the meeting? Is it because the conference is the most important academic activity, or because the main activity left in the photo is the conference?

If you think about it carefully, it's not surprising.

On the one hand, meetings are the easiest way to gather academic colleagues for face-to-face communication. It is natural to record the press conference with photos. If you meet a famous teacher, the army should take a group photo with him as a souvenir, which can also be used as a reference for future talks.

On the other hand, many experts and professors are not young. In the 1980s and 1990s, when digital cameras and smart phones were not popular, photography was also a luxury consumption in poor times. When so many historical pictures of "everyone" are recorded, it is even more precious for the "old photos" of these conferences.

0 1 academic conference carries too many non-academic functions.

Academic seminar was originally an activity of academic discussion and exchange by scholars. But once upon a time, academic seminars were given more functions outside the academic scope.

The reason can be found in the motivation of the participants in the academic seminar.

Let's first look at the organizers' motives for holding the meeting.

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First, for universities, holding academic conferences is an achievement point. Because whether a high-level academic conference has been held, how many times it has been held and how many times it has been held will be converted into "work points" in today's evaluation system. The more times, the larger the scale, the higher the level, and the more "points".

Therefore, holding academic conferences has become a "just need" for discipline construction.

Secondly, the academic conference was held for some academic motives. For example, I want to launch a research topic through a meeting, which has aroused widespread concern; For example, trying to gain the dominant position in this field, thus leading the research trend; For example, I want to "show my muscles" and let the research results be known to the world through meetings.

Third, it is a means of spending money by surprise. Due to the limitation of financial management, the remaining funds that must be turned over at the end of the year will be spent in the form of surprise meetings.

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In a word, holding an academic conference, even if there is no gain, has no harm, at least it is an achievement.

Based on the above three motives, all units have become activists in organizing meetings.

The motivation of participants is also worth exploring.

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Of course, many participants want to express their new achievements and opinions, which is a normal academic expression demand.

However, some scholars do not have new academic viewpoints and achievements, and they also think that they must be present. This is a need to "brush the sense of existence".

Of course, some scholars attended the meeting out of a sense of responsibility or obligation. They usually have a certain status and fame in this field, or hold positions in professional societies, or attend meetings for the sake of "face" of acquaintances.

Other participants just want to meet old friends, catch up, visit local scenery, enjoy food, and so on.

Among the above four types of participants, only the first type of scholars attended the meeting purely for academic exchanges.

For young scholars and graduate students, participation has different meanings.

Most of them attend the meeting with the mentality of "pilgrimage" or "eye-opening", to see the elegance of famous big coffee and listen to their opinions;

Some people come with a "familiar face" mentality, just as some tutors say to graduate students that "the most important thing is to let them know that you are such a person", and they speak at the meeting in order to attract everyone's attention and take this opportunity to establish some contacts in the circle;

Many graduate students brought their tutors to the meeting. By the way, let them feel the scenery of the venue, which is more like participating in a group activity of teachers, who don't care about the content of the meeting itself.

To sum up, the current academic seminar carries too many functions, and the academic seminar itself is no longer the core content of the academic seminar. Some academic conferences directly turned into reading, showing, performing, attending classes and watching. ...

The "division of labor" of academic conferences is clear.

Because the people attending the meeting are different and very different, they also have different "division of labor".

First, the academic predecessor, Taishan Beidou.

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No matter what kind of academic conference, some old gentlemen are basically invited to read the speech on their behalf. Their main task is to talk about absolutely correct "nonsense"

The content of the speech is nothing more than that: the conference is quite important and significant, the organizers are well organized, the guarantee is in place, the quality of academic papers is innovative and instructive, and it has attracted top domestic scholars. ...

In free activities, these old gentlemen became "props" for taking pictures:

An old man, I've heard a lot about you. Can I take a picture with you?

A professor, I graduated from the same school as you. We are alumni. Can I take a picture with you?

Sir, I have read your representative work of XX before, which inspired me a lot. Can I take a picture with you?

Miss Li, my last name is Li, too. May I take a picture with you?

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The second is the backbone of the academic community.

Their main tasks are signing books, greeting each other, recommending their students, seeking cooperation projects and flattering themselves and each other.

No matter what meeting, their luggage is always the most, because there are books to send, and the object of sending books is mainly the editor-in-chief of publishing houses or magazines.

Editor-in-chief Li, this is my latest book. Please read it. Some of them overlap with your magazine.

Professor Zhang, I have no time to do this project. I haven't finished my project. Why don't you apply, I'll work, I'll find some graduate students and we'll study the funds later.

Director Liu, this boy is good, and he plans to go to your place to study for a doctorate. You should guide him well and leave everything to you.

I'm a little busy recently, and the project of the Ministry of Education is urging me to finish it. In addition, the provincial education department has been asking me for projects, and I can't get away. Really busy. By the way, Professor Wang, I have read your masterpiece published in XX for n times, and let my doctor and master study it as a model. The viewpoints, materials and methods are all exemplary. It's amazing!

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Third, academic rookies and younger generation.

One is the kind mentioned above, that is, broaden your horizons, meet more people, know more good friends, and then the research group will secretly go out for a few days at public expense.

The other is holding the attitude of "matchmaking agency", rushing to take a photo with the old gentleman and asking him to sign; Give the backbone bags, carry luggage, pour water, cut fruits, open umbrellas and buffet after work.

The reason why we have to work so hard is to pave the way for the last sentence:

"Professor X, you're welcome. My name is Wang Erli. Do you find it convenient? Give me a call or add a WeChat, and I'll ask you more later ... "

The speaker talked to himself and was complacent.

Academic conference is an important form of academic communication, and many scholars often spend their precious time and life on continuous meetings.

Therefore, how to improve the efficiency of this kind of academic activities, or how to use the meeting time to the extreme as much as possible, is a realistic problem that must be paid attention to.

However, the most fatal problem of academic conferences at present is wasting time and killing people for money. Based on my own experience in many academic seminars, I think the biggest failure of some conferences is that the participants just talk to themselves and don't really communicate with each other effectively.

Why do you say that?

In recent years, our academic conference agenda has become more and more international, and the staffing has become more abundant. There are well-known speakers, "keynote speakers" (speakers), commentators and "Q&A" sessions.

However, the focus of some meetings is not how to discuss problems in depth, but who will preside over and speak first. The theme of the meeting and the content of the paper are no longer important. So at the academic conference, it becomes the theme of the conference to arrange who will speak first, and the academic conference becomes an academic performance.

But every time there are many speakers, who only care about their own enjoyment, but ignore the feelings of the audience and arbitrarily occupy the agreed comment time. It seems that they want a drink and have no intention of listening to criticism and discussion.

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Of course, among many commentators, many have changed "commenting on others" into "talking about themselves".

If these two kinds of people meet, there is little room for collective discussion.

However, to make matters worse, even if the above two kinds of people can be "merciful" and give the participants a few minutes to "ask and answer", they will often make arbitrary and unsatisfactory comments, and there are still many questions that are beating around the bush and irrelevant, leaving everyone confused and at a loss.

At this time, if the host's intervention and rectification ability is not strong, then the meeting may deviate from Wan Li and will "stop the car".

As we all know, China people are "good-looking", and many conference hosts regard interrupting overtime speech as a loss of face. They would rather lose the overall efficiency of the meeting and waste other people's precious time, but also be a "good gentleman". Even Wan Li's digression is full of praise.

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In this way, it is almost impossible to finish every link on time, either sacrificing the intermission or delaying the meal time.

In any case, the person who appeared first delayed the person who appeared later, and the speaker delayed the audience. In essence, due to the poor quality of the meeting, everyone may not gain much.

In this context, it is common to find an excuse to quit halfway, or to pass the time absently, or to work wholeheartedly at the venue.

The reason why the participants "skip the meeting" physically or mentally is mostly because they can't enjoy the spirit at all. On the contrary, they think that academic conferences are an overriding task. "Escape" or "sabotage" naturally becomes a negative response to inefficient and ineffective meetings.

For those who are committed to academic work, it doesn't matter if they don't come to this academic conference!