Virtual Conference Style. . .

Somehow, I managed to get myself involved with three different sessions for the virtual day of this year's (internal) teaching and learning conference. Two others besides my own poster session after lunch today. The Grand Duchess says I'm too nice.

No matter. The right sort of attire can help one feel calm, collected, and confident when talking about one's approach to a zoom room full of unfamiliar faces. Not too formal, but definitely preferable to the jeans, sneakers, t-shirts, and hooded sweatshirts worn by too many male professors everywhere.

Not really the sort of example we want to set for students. Or, given that up has become down, black is white, and day is now night in the world of 2024, is it? Sigh.

The necktie, in any case, is a navy grenadine number from Chipp that has been in the collection for a number of years. Given the shirt and socks, it helps keep things from straying too far into wilder sartorial territory.

-- Heinz-Ulrich

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