The 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference

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This is the podcast series for the groundbreaking COMPASS INTERDISCIPLINARY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE19-30 October, 2009This series contains keynote lectures from eminent academics and 'publishing workshop' talks from a variety of academics and publishing professionals."Join the largest online meeting of minds in the social sciences and humanities!"In these days of increasing fragmentation and hyper-specialisation in academia, Compass aims to foster connections amongst scholars. To further this cause, Wiley-Blackwell and the Compass Editors-in-Chief are organising this online conference to promote interdisciplinary approaches.The first Compass conference aims to cut across academic boundaries – within and between disciplines, between theory and practice, approaches and methodologies by providing a space for multi- and cross-disciplinary reviewThe overall theme of the conference is ‘Breaking Down Barriers’. Around 20 conference papers will tackle one or more of the following sub-th