A bloated SBL?

April DeConick has just made an interesting post which I agree with very much— that there are too many sessions at the SBL annual meeting and needs to be reorganized.

This makes me think of Mark Goodacre's "tips for surviving SBL". One part has always bothered me a little bit- his suggestion that it is okay to be a flake and walk in and out of sessions. While on one level I agree with him- go see the papers you want to see!- it has gotten to be a crazy stampede after every paper. I've seen presenters leave their own session once they were done too. I think fewer sessions, or fewer meetings of sessions, and perhaps different planning, would reduce traffic a little.

Anyway, go and read DeConick's post, it's a good one.