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In her 'Manifesto to Decentre Theatre and Performance Studies' (2021), Swati Arora explores the intangible and invisible borders that function to exclude certain people and knowledges, usually indexed by race, gender, class, and geography, from the academy. As a new working group convenor, I'm interested in thinking through what hidden borders might operate through the Call for Paper and panel selection process. What are prospective panellists really being asked to demonstrate? What unofficial knowledges are privileged and who has access to these? How can we reorient this process towards questioning and away from demonstration of knowledge? In this short provocation I reflect my own experience of selecting abstracts and ask what work might be done to develop a more transparent and empowering model of panel curation. This is a short provocation that was prepared for the roundtable discussion on 'Decolonisation and Solidarity' as part of the conference, Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder Through Performance, which took place at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, on 30 June and 1 July 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the importance of heat exchangers in industrial and commercial processes and the negative impact of fouling on their efficiency. It highlights the significance of the Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning Conference, which brings together experts from around the world to share research and advancements in fouling science, mitigation strategies, and cleaning technologies. The 14th conference took place in Wagrain, Austria, in 2022, after a hiatus due to the global pandemic. The conference covered various topics related to fouling and cleaning, and nine papers were selected for inclusion in a special issue of Heat Transfer Engineering. The upcoming conference is scheduled to be held in Portugal in April 2024. [Extracted from the article]

This article is a summary of the 10th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering (ICIPE 22), which took place in May 2022 in Francavilla al Mare, Italy. The conference brought together applied mathematicians and engineers from various disciplines to collaborate and discuss the use of inverse analysis tools in fields such as manufacturing, medical imaging, and space applications. The event also honored Professor James V. Beck, who made significant contributions to parameter estimation and inverse heat transfer problems. The conference featured keynote addresses, lectures, and a tribute to Prof. Beck. The article expresses gratitude to the organizers, sponsors, reviewers, and the editor-in-chief of the Heat Transfer Engineering Journal. The 11th ICIPE conference will be held in Brazil in 2024. [Extracted from the article]

This Special Issue presents 7 papers selected from the International Conference on Futuristic Advancements in Materials, Manufacturing and Thermal Sciences (ICFAMMT 2022). These papers were presented during the International Conference on Futuristic Advancements in Materials, Manufacturing and Thermal Sciences (ICFAMMT 2022) and selected by Session Chairs and Scientific Committee members for the possible publication in the Special Issue of Heat Transfer Engineering. In this special issue, the first paper by Kumar et al. presents heat transfer characteristics of plate heat exchanger with bubble fin using Al SB 2 sb O SB 3 sb /water nanofluid. [Extracted from the article]

"Global Byzantium" is a book that aims to assess the world from the perspective of Byzantium and its relevance to global history. It challenges traditional barriers and shows that Byzantium's connectivity extended beyond the Mediterranean and European states. The book primarily focuses on documentary analysis and art-historical criticism rather than archaeological investigation. It includes papers on various topics such as the library of the Monastery of St Catherine, textile manufacture and exchange, the slave trade, Islam in the Mediterranean, connections between Byzantium and India and China, the Eurasian trading system, and the stucco decoration of Lombard monuments in Italy. The conclusion of the book discusses the role of archaeology in the politics of colonizing the Negev and similar semi-deserts. Overall, the book aims to put Byzantium back on the world stage and highlight its significant role in global connectivity. [Extracted from the article]

The 14th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and 21st Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (ICRS 14/RPSD 2022) was successfully held in Seattle, Washington. The conference featured 123 presented papers and had attendees from Japan, Korea, and several European countries in addition to North America. The conference included plenary talks on various topics related to nuclear reactor concepts, shielding and radiation protection, and the situation at Fukushima Daiichi. The conference also recognized individuals with awards and included workshops on computer codes used for radiation shielding applications. A special issue of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) contains a selection of papers from the conference. [Extracted from the article]

The document is an editorial introducing selected papers from the 4th International Symposium on Thermal-Fluid Dynamics (ISTFD 2023). Thermal-fluid dynamics is a crucial field that impacts various subjects and technologies, including energy generation, aerospace, automotive engineering, and more. The ISTFD series was established in 2019 to promote research and progress in thermal-fluid dynamics. The 4th symposium was successfully held in Nanjing, China, in 2023, with over 200 participants from 15 countries. This special issue contains 15 peer-reviewed articles showcasing recent research progress in thermal-fluid dynamics and interdisciplinary research. [Extracted from the article]

The results showed that ZnO based nanofluid improved the natural convection heat transfer at 0.10 vol.%, at higher concentrations the natural convection of nanofluid deteriorated. The eleventh paper by Wang and Okawa studied the effect of nanoparticle layer coating on heat transfer performance of heat pipe. This Special Issue of I Heat Transfer Engineering i includes thirteen selected papers from the 1 SP st sp International Conference on Nanofluids (ICNf), which was held at Universitat Jaume I, in Castelló (Spain), on 26 SP th sp to 28 SP th sp June 2019. [Extracted from the article]

Rome represented and excellent opportunity by bringing together members of the international heat and mass transfer community in a unique location that offered historical and artistic attractions, a wide array of accommodation and transportation options, and meeting facilities of the highest level. The ICCHMT2019 organizers were Prof. Abdulmajeed Mohamad from University of Calgary (Canada), Prof. Jan Taler from Cracow University of Technology (Poland), Prof. Ali Cemal Benim from Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Prof. Roberto de Lieto Vollaro from Roma TRE University (Italy), Prof. Andrea Vallati from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and the Scientific Secretary Dr. Gabriele Battista from Roma TRE University (Italy). This Special Issue presents 22 papers selected from 12th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer (ICCHMT2019). [Extracted from the article]

This special issue of Analytical Letters is devoted to selected articles based on contributions from the Third International Congress of Environmental Chemistry (EnviroChem 2021). The authors have expanded their conference papers and included their latest experimental results in this special edition of Analytical Letters. EnviroChem 2021 has aimed- to promote and disseminate knowledge on various topics and technologies related to Environmental Chemistry. All articles have gone through the standard review process. The EnviroChem 2021 Conference, where chemists, environmental engineers/scientists and researchers from many countries came together, was held in Antalya Kemer, hosted by Erciyes University (ERU), Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University (MSKU), and the Chemists Society (of Turkey). EnviroChem 2011 combined invited lectures, oral sessions, and poster presentations with a total of 9 invited lectures, 46 contributed oral presentations, and 41 posters. The Conference Organizers would like to thank all committee members, invited speakers, and presenters, authors and reviewers of EnviroChem 2021 who generously shared their expertise with us by presenting/reviewing their valuable contributions to this special issue. Finally, we extend our thanks to Professor David Butcher as the Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Letters and the staff of Taylor & Francis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are indebted to him for his careful editing of the final versions of the papers published in this special issue, for the opportunity to publish this special issue, and for his dedicated support for the entire process, without which this special issue would not exist. The 3 SP rd sp International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Infrastructure (ICRAM-2021) was organized by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, India during August 6-8, 2021. [Extracted from the article]

The 5th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions was held in Cologne, Germany, April 23–25, 2018. It featured one of the largest concentrations of papers on pornography and sexual research presented in a single venue to date. Several key themes emerged from the conference. The theoretical basis for developing pornography and sexuality studies as components within the behavioral addiction research landscape is beginning to mature. Core components are the I-PACE theory and the development, validation, and employment in field studies of a steadily growing set of assessment tools including the Problematic Pornography Use Scale, the Brief Pornography Screener, and the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory. The field also benefitted from a keynote speech and a formal pro/con debate. The other principal debate was around the imminent release of ICD-11 by the World Health Organization and the way that Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD) would be handled. There was a selection of papers looking at the debate from a variety of theoretical and practical points of view. Fieldwork from Poland suggested that well over 80% of people seeking treatment for CSBD had a problem with pornography use, rather than issues from acting out with real sexual partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Living in unprecedented times" may well be an overused ubiquitous cliché, but for this special issue (SI), it is considered considerably apt. Never has the LRN conference been hosted in two consecutive years by the same host university and never has the conference been delivered online. But we felt that of all the scenarios, whatever happened, whether COVID-19 subsided or not, by running an online conference, we could have a high degree of certainty to "guarantee" some form of participatory conference. [Extracted from the article]

The International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (ICHORA) has been held since 2003, with the most recent conference, ICHORA10, taking place online in July 2022. The conference aimed to reflect on the centenary of two significant events in recordkeeping history in the UK and Ireland. The conference featured various forms of participation, including short postcards from the past and longer academic presentations. The papers presented at the conference explored the nature of archives and records, highlighting the diversity of perspectives and the importance of historical context. The special issue of the journal includes articles on topics such as recordkeeping pioneers in Malta, recordkeepers in Latin America, and the history of archives in different countries. The conference also raised questions about the unique methods and perspectives involved in studying the history of archives and records. [Extracted from the article]

The 23rd International Drying Symposium (IDS 2024) will be held in Wuxi, China from November 22-25, 2024. Organized by the School of Food Science and Technology at Jiangnan University, IDS 2024 aims to provide a platform for the exchange of cutting-edge research and information on drying/dewatering science and technology. The symposium will feature presentations on various topics including fundamentals, modeling and simulation, physical properties and product quality, industrial processes and equipment, energy and environmental issues, and more. Important dates to note include the abstract submission deadline on February 15, 2024, and the final registration deadline on September 1, 2024. Prospective participants are encouraged to visit the IDS 2024 website for more information. [Extracted from the article]

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editors discuss papers on the role in chemical investigation and documentation of paper tools presented in the fall 2016 national meeting of the American Chemical Society during the 2016 History of Chemistry Division's Award to Ursual Klein for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in the History of Chemistry.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including human services; virtual community; and information technology.

The article offers information on fifth International Symposium on Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation (ISHTEC2016) held on November 11-14, 2016 in Guangzhou, China. Topics discussed include new heat transfer theories, heat transfer enhancement technologies, micro/meso-heat transfer, and the heat transfer problems in energy use systems.

The article calls for the submission of papers for the 2013 National Conference in Sales Management at the Town & Country Resort & Convention Center in San Diego, California, sponsored by the Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE) National Educational Foundation and the University Sales Center Alliance.

A call for papers is presented for the National Conference in Sales Management to be held April 4-6, 2013 in San Diego, California.

A call for papers on National Conference in Sales Management is presented.

In the beautifully situated tenth-century castle, about 75 participants from all over the world presented and attended seven sessions during five days concerning such topics as radionuclide production, equations of state of a Fermi gas, the advection-diffusion equation, the Fokker-Planck equation, neutron multiplicity and branching, transport in a moving mesh, pressurized water reactor control rod motion, waves in gas bubbles, the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau kinetic equation, plasma transport, Monte Carlo, stochastic COVID-19 modeling, the BGK equation, charged particle transport, and more specialized topics in particle transport theory. Every odd year from 1969 through 2019 - and then in 2022 on account of the COVID-19 pandemic - a select group of mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and computational scientists calling themselves transport theorists gathered for one week at what was originally called the Blacksburg Conference (now known as the International Conference on Transport Theory [ICTT]). Originated by Paul F. Zweifel (deceased), Bob Erdman, and Chuck Siewert, the conference was intended to bring together theorists the world over to discuss common methods to solve the neutron transport equation with application to nuclear energy. [Extracted from the article]

The American Nuclear Society (ANS) 2022 International Conference on Physics of Reactors (PHYSOR) followed the success of the past meetings in the series. Innovative reactor physics methodologies were presented with an emphasis on operational and economic performance improvements in current light water reactors (LWRs), as well as the development and deployment of microreactors, small modular reactors, and advanced reactors. [Extracted from the article]

Building on the legacy of the three previous conferences since 2013, the 2017 International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA) offered one of the largest selections of original academic research into compulsive sexual behavior and pornography use ever presented. This review gives a flavor of the best papers and the key contributions to our fast-evolving understanding of compulsive sexuality and pornography use. This report is not fully comprehensive as the use of parallel sessions meant that we could not see all relevant papers. The Journal of Behavioral Addictions has published all abstracts in a special edition (volume 6, supplement 1). A single strand of the parallel sessions was wholly dedicated to research into sex and pornography. Taken collectively, the presentations demonstrated the strengths of several national research teams, in particular those from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Israel, and the United States. The plenary given for the sexual strand by Matthias Brand explored the I-PACE model (Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution) in specific Internet addictions, including for cybersex addiction. This suggested that the theoretical framework for studying and understanding sexual addictions is becoming more mature and robust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The significant proliferation of research papers in both conferences and journals has made it difficult for researchers to easily access relevant scholarly papers for academic learning. This has been a substantial problem for many researchers. Conferences, in comparison with journals, have an aspect of social learning and networking, which leads to personal familiarisation through various interactions among researchers. In this paper, we improve the social awareness of conference participants by proposing a novel folksonomy-based paper recommendation algorithm, called socially aware recommendation of scholarly papers (SARSP). SARSP recommends papers issued by active participants (APs), to other Group Profile Participants at the same conference based on preference similarity of their research interests. In addition, SARSP computes the social ties between an AP and other conference participants to effectively generate social recommendations of scholarly papers. We evaluate our proposed algorithm using a real-world data-set. Our experimental results confirm that SARSP has significant improvement over other existing methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study tests the hypothesis that the contributed papers at the 12 ACRL national conferences do not cover topics of interest to technical services librarians in proportion to their membership in ACRL. The analysis showed that 14.66% of contributed papers dealt with subjects that were part of the charge of ALCTS, the technical services division in ALA, and its five sections. This percentage dropped to 7.52% with the removal of collection development papers that are also of high interest to many public services librarians. Current overlap statistics indicate that 18.83% of ACRL members also belong to ALCTS-an indication of potential ACRL member interest in technical services topics. An unexpected discovery was that the contributed papers became much more holistic with the arrival of the Internet and electronic resources in academic libraries and, starting with the 1999 Detroit national conference, were much more difficult to categorize into specialized niches. The author speculates that the attendance at the national conferences by a high proportion of librarians from small to mid-size academic libraries discourages papers on technical services topics since technical services librarians are more likely to work in large ARL libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about submitting scholarly research for presentation at the National Conference in Sales Management which will be held on April 9 to 12, 2014 in Miami, Florida and is sponsored by the Pi Sigma Epsilon fraternity and the University Sales Center Alliance.

This paper reflects on conferences of the first five years of the International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD: 2000-2004) focusing specifically on the conference proceedings. The papers presented at the five conferences and published in their proceedings were reviewed and analysed in terms of functional areas covered, the research methodologies employed, as well as the geographical spread and country focus of the authors. The analysis demonstrates a number of significant achievements for IAABD and identifies a number of challenges for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 6 SP th sp Micro and Nano Flows Conference was held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, between 9-12 of September 2018, see http://mnf2018.com. They recommended further studies to elucidate the effect on adding nano particles, since the heat transfer enhancement was higher than the thermal conductivity increase. In the sixth paper, heat transfer enhancement using jet impingement was examined by Hobby and coworkers. [Extracted from the article]

This document is a special issue of the Heat Transfer Engineering Journal, dedicated to the research studies presented at the International Conference on Thermal Analysis of Energy Systems. The conference, organized by the Heat Pump Research Institute in India and the Department of Mechanics at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan, took place virtually in December 2021. Out of over 100 papers presented, eight were selected for this special issue, covering topics such as thermodynamic analysis of thermal systems, heat exchangers, and heat transfer enhancement studies. The papers were reviewed by experts in the field and revised accordingly. The document expresses gratitude to the editor, authors, and conference co-organizers, and announces that the next conference is planned for June 2024. The author of the document, Murugesan Mohanraj, is a professor in Mechanical Engineering and has extensive experience in renewable energy and heat transfer research. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the enabling of technologies and frameworks for new product development. This issue of "International Journal of Production Research" contains various papers from the "3rd International Conference on Manufacturing Research." Several of these papers discussed provisions and sharing of knowledge through digital frameworks and ontologies, supporting tools and evaluation systems, as well as design management and practice models for new product development.

The article offers information on the papers presented during the 41st Rochester Mineralogical Symposium held in Michigan on April 24-27, 2014. Topics discussed in the symposium included metamorphic minerals from the Alta Aureole, Central Wasatch Mountains, Utah, and a new mineral, steedeite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.

This paper critically assesses current architectural research, as represented in a sampling of papers presented at ACSA conferences, through the lens of research typologies related to people-place interactions taken from neighboring fields in the social sciences. Specifically, 253 papers from four ACSA conferences were assessed for methodological approaches to their objects of inquiry. This resulted in a tabulation of all the papers into nine methodological categories, ranging from interpretive approaches to causal-experimental approaches to design projects. These nine categories are critically evaluated in light of extant people-place research frameworks from the social science literature. The paper concludes by suggesting that established social science frameworks can help clarify the architectural research realm, particularly in the "interpretive" range, and that "design" offers a unique venue within which sociological approaches such as critical theory and/or grounded theory can find expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including Australian social work, social work profession and social justice.

A constant focus in planning the conference was a strong commitment to excellence in the technical program, a hallmark of this series of conferences. The American Nuclear Society (ANS) 2021 International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2021) continued the rich tradition of this biennial conference series, showcasing preeminent computational science research for nuclear applications. Mathematics and computational methods are of fundamental importance in the design and analysis of nuclear systems. [Extracted from the article]

In 2018, the 40th IABSE Symposium was hosted in Nantes, France, with the main theme of "Tomorrow's Megastructures". For the participants of Nantes 2018, we hope to recall your best memories of the IABSE Symposium and for all other IABSE Members or SEI readers: enjoy reading Megastructures!. [Extracted from the article]

When states face international terrorism, their response almost automatically lies in the area of foreign policy. As such, actors in foreign policy making play a key, yet understudied role in this process. In this paper, I will therefore analyse West German foreign policy responses to Palestinian terrorism in the 1970s, which evolved from technical to diplomatic measures. The focus will be on the role of diplomats, not least on their sustained and expanding efforts to negotiate with representatives of violent Palestinian organisations after terror attacks affecting West Germany. This paper thereby shows the potential of a more actor-focused counterterrorism research agenda. Moreover, from a methodological standpoint it also illustrates how archival material can help to uncover the internal dynamics and complexities of governmental decision-making when it comes to counterterrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new classification system for computing education papers is presented and applied to every computing education paper published between January 2004 and January 2007 at the two premier computing education conferences in Australia and New Zealand. We find that while simple reports outnumber other types of paper, a healthy proportion of papers address and answer a research question. We find that more papers deal with programming courses than with other courses, and that more than half of all publications are situated in single subjects. To the extent that differing circumstances permit, we compare our results with those of an earlier study of the SIGCSE conference, and find that the Australasian publications include fewer simple reports and more papers describing analysis and experiment. We note a reasonable number of publications on multi-institutional work, which we interpret as evidence of a sense of computing education community within Australia and New Zealand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is our pleasure to present this special issue ofHeat Transfer Engineeringwith a selection of papers presented at the 4th International Symposium on Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation, ISHTEC2012, held January 6–9, 2012, in Guangzhou, China. The conference was sponsored by the Key Laboratory of Enhanced Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation of Education of Ministry of China. More than 160 delegates including 42 foreign delegates from 16 countries came to the conference and there were more than 140 papers presented at the conference. The topics covered a wide variety of fields from new heat transfer theories, to micro heat transfer, to enhanced heat transfer technologies and the heat transfer problems in energy use systems. This special issue is a selection of the best 21 papers presented at the conference, including 2 review papers and 19 full-length research papers. The analysis of these papers showed that there are new trends in recent years in heat transfer and energy conservation: (1) New heat transfer theories are actively proposed to optimize heat transfer problems. (2) New alternative energy use technologies are being extensively investigated to meet the desire for a low carbon society. (3) Even for the seemingly traditional processes and equipment, new phenomena and findings are continuously disclosed, during which computational fluid dynamics has been more and more relied on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section provides several papers presented to the Pasco Hernando County Early Learning Coalition Conference in Florida in November 2012. Early educators contributed papers on encouraging literacy and communication in young children. Shelton K. Gilyard Jr. of the University of South Florida in Tampa presented a paper on the use of interactive video gaming to encourage children with autism to participate in physical activity.

Central Michigan University has hosted 11 Off-Campus Library Services Conferences since 1982. This paper studies the proceedings of the 11 conferences to identify patterns of research. The authors were interested in determining how the field of distance learning library services has changed over that 22 year period as evidenced by the topics presented and the types of papers included in the proceedings. The authors analyzed the contributed papers and assigned those papers to specific subject tracks. The authors also considered the sources used by the presenters in order to identify works that may be considered seminal in this field. Distance learning librarianship is a field that has grown and matured, but there has been little research to date into the core literature of the field. This paper attempts to identify some of those core works through an analysis of the citations used in these Sets of proceedings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The series of ICCHM SP 2 sp T (International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer), previously named ICCHMT (International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer), was first started in 1999 and held in Cyprus. The fifth paper by He et al. presents three-dimensional unsteady simulations of the effects of the leakage from the inter-platform gap on the migration of heat streak in a first stage turbine blade. [Extracted from the article]

The increasing availability of high quality digital texts and usage data about them provides opportunities to identify new uses for collections, alternative ways to present and explore content, and expanded audiences for the materials. Using this information and a rapid development model called a “flash build,” JSTOR is creating and partnering with other organizations to build new tools that add value to library investments in digital collections. Two examples are discussed: “Classroom Readings,” a tool designed to help educators find articles on JSTOR that are good candidates for teaching, and “Understanding Shakespeare,” a resource created in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library that enables scholars to follow links in lines from Shakespeare plays to articles on JSTOR that reference them. The rapid development model used for these projects is easily reproducible and effective, and could be applied to many library-driven efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This editorial provides an overview of a special issue dedicated to the 7th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, HEFAT2010, which took place July 19–21, 2010, in Antalya, Turkey. All papers for this conference were peer reviewed and almost 150 papers were accepted. Of these papers, eight were selected for this issue and were peer reviewed for a second time according to journal standards. The eight articles focus on recent developments of heat transfer and include the acidity and method of preparation of nanofluids on nucleate pool boiling, industrial boiler circulation, spray cooling of electronic components, freezing in a horizontal plate freezer with CO2 as refrigerant in a cascade refrigeration system, thermal simulation of a pulsing heat pipe, condensation of R22 retrofits, vertically downward-blowing single-jet air curtains in cold rooms, and a gravity-assisted heat pipe air-to-air cooler. This issue of Heat Transfer Engineering is the seventh special journal issue dedicated to selected papers from the HEFAT conferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduction outlines the background and contexts of this special issue of Studies in Travel Writing, which emerged from the Borders and Crossings 2019 conference held at the University of Leicester on 4–6 July 2019. The introduction details the history of this long-running conference series, and its previous role as a source of travel writing studies publications. As the conference organisers, the authors explain the rationales which guided their development of the 2019 conference, in particular an emphasis on bringing critical and creative approaches into the same space, and encouraging presenters and attendees from a wide range of backgrounds. The introduction briefly considers the likely significance for travel writing practice and scholarship – as well as for the Borders and Crossings series itself – of the COVID-19 pandemic, and provides a brief summary of the selection of articles, based on papers originally presented at the conference, included in this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]