Well, Southwest Social Science Association (http://www.sssaonline.org/) if you want to get really technical about it. First major academic conference (presented two pieces: one coauthored and one solo). It went well. I had good chairs/discussants both times. My solo paper (about immigration sanctuary policies) was somewhat underdeveloped, which is why I took it to this conference in the first place. Still, good comments and a renewed need to whip that line of research into shape.
Alek’s and my methodological piece on IAT’s went well also. We got some good comments from the chair (Takeshi Iida, Waseda University) and I think that our Midwest presentation in about 2 weeks will be the better for it. Also, the research we did on that one is just plain good. I’ve uploaded the new version, you can find it here if you’re interested (https://hedrick.blogs.rice.edu/files/2011/03/MPSA2011_Draft.pdf).
I also served as a discussant for a panel on Public Administration and Technology. Only one author actually got me their paper ahead of the panel and nobody got it to me on time, but I did my best to provide relevant feedback. Interesting experience though, wouldn’t mind doing it again even though I was the least experienced scholar in the room.
All told, successful conference. Looking forward to Midwest in two weeks and the Western (WPSA) a few weeks after that.