{"id":573899091,"date":"2026-06-05T20:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573899091"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:55:36","slug":"ica-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/06\/05\/ica-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"ICA presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a conference day. My lovely bride once again had research accepted at the International Communication Association’s annual conference. My job was to sit and nod sagely, and also to take some photographs. I took some photographs. Her paper was on … well … the title slide does some explaining. <\/p>\n

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She used a screengrab from a BNL video. She was very proud of the idea. It was funny. I’m not sure how many people caught the reference. To be fair to all parties, that’s pretty niche, and the crowd was also a bunch of specialty scholars. The overlap might have been just three or four people. <\/p>\n

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It was another fine paper, and a good presentation. A few years back she won a top paper award at this conference. She’s a big deal.<\/p>\n

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And the conference is, too. Global affair. Security at the doors looking at badges, for some reason. I like going to conference sessions, but I can’t imagine anyone wanting to sneak their way in. I’d sneak my way in but, again, pretty niche. <\/p>\n

We had dinner tonight at a fancy steakhouse. It was pick-your-cut kind of fancy. But the prices were in-line with an American meal. If they said this was the best steak in town, I’d believe them. I also think every other place does a great steak, because there’s an incredibly passionate meat grilling culture here. Bo-Vine in the City<\/a> is surely one of the touchstones of the commercial part of the food culture. We’d definitely go back, and certainly recommend it to others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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