That's great. I really feel this is what conference volumes should be, if they're to be at all: hot off the presses, where the conference in question has been a relatively small and focused workshop whose intention is to compile different perspectives/analytic approaches to something happening right now, and where the papers and presentations are all supposed to come in ready to go to press save for whatever revisions come out of the process of discussing them. Basically the academic version of the "first draft of history". The nightmare always comes from trying to make a bunch of papers that don't talk to each other seem as if they belong in a collection, which also always involves authors who are on completely different schedules when it comes to the work they presented--it wasn't FOR the conference, usually, it was something they were already doing, planning on doing, etc.
That's great. I really feel this is what conference volumes should be, if they're to be at all: hot off the presses, where the conference in question has been a relatively small and focused workshop whose intention is to compile different perspectives/analytic approaches to something happening right now, and where the papers and presentations are all supposed to come in ready to go to press save for whatever revisions come out of the process of discussing them. Basically the academic version of the "first draft of history". The nightmare always comes from trying to make a bunch of papers that don't talk to each other seem as if they belong in a collection, which also always involves authors who are on completely different schedules when it comes to the work they presented--it wasn't FOR the conference, usually, it was something they were already doing, planning on doing, etc.
Pre-ordered! Now how are we going to get you to sign our copies? :)