I’m shocked at the high level of talks at this conference. I usually hate conferences because I get tragically distracted and can’t force myself to listen. But today I listened to talks from 9 to 6 pm, and didn’t mind at all. They were all interesting. Literally, zero woke stuff. Just scholarship. Actual useful scholarship.
Two presentations were pointedly against woke orthodoxy.
This is the second time in my life I’m attending an interesting conference. The first one was also in Germany.