Dwayne Gremler's Scholarly Travels
Friday, March 15, 2024
Catching Up with a Good Friend While in Paderborn
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Confirming Celebration Skills at the Publishing Seminar in Paderborn
One aspect of the publication process that we discussed was celebrating key milestones in the process. Obviously we should celebrate when our manuscripts are published, but we also discussed celebrating "revise and resubmit" invitations (and thus NOT receiving rejections). I did not have to repeat the lecture points here...apparently many of them have been perfecting their celebration skills for years!
Monday, March 11, 2024
Discussing Scholarly Research in Paderborn, Germany
Lena Steinhoff invited me to return to Paderborn, Germany, to conduct my "Publishing Scholarly Research" seminar. (I had previously been to Paderborn in 2007 and 2015.) We had 10 participants (3 from Paderborn, the rest from Germany and Austria) attend four day-long sessions as we discussed various topics related to publishing academic articles.
Friday, December 8, 2023
Coaching at the "Let's Talk About Service" Conference in Namur, Belgium
Wafa Hammedi invited me to be a part of the "Lets Talk About Service" conference hosted by the University of Namur in Belgium. (Click here for the conference website.) This was the 10th year of this event; I also participated during my previous sabbatical (in 2015). The event focuses on bringing Ph.D. candidates and assistant professors together to discuss service research issues.
My role at the conference was to serve as a "coach" for a group of seven young scholars for the LTAS "Collaborative Workshop." They were given the task to develop ideas for a project that could lead to publication in a leading journal. My team (Team DigiTAS) worked together in designing a study that could be targeted to the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Battling the Snow in Brussels, Belgium
My host, Bart Lariviere, had thought of several options for us to consider doing on Sunday afternoon, but the cold weather and threat of ice/snow caused him to revise his plans. Instead we took the train into Brussels to see the Christmas market and eat some lunch. Shortly after we left the train station we saw St. Michael's Cathedral. This is where the king of Belgium was married.
Saturday, December 2, 2023
Enjoying the Sites in Dendermonde, Belgium
This trip was my third to Europe in 2023. I selected this spot so that I could spend some time with a colleague from Belgium--Bart Lariviere (at the Catholic University of Leuven, or KULeuven). We went to the Dendermonde city center to see the sites and have dinner.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Meeting a Fellow Perrysburger in Vienna
Candy and I attended the "English Speaking United Methodist Church of Vienna" this morning. It was about a 25 minute walk from our AirBnb apartment. One of the first people to introduce themselves was Jerry Barton. He asked us where we were from, and Candy said Ohio. He then asked where in Ohio, and she said "Perrysburg." He exclaimed, "Perrysburg?" I started to explain that it was close to Toledo when he said he was a 1966 graduate of Perrysburg High School. Actually, he grew up on Ft. Meigs Road, less than a mile from our house.