Currently searching for conferences related to workplace training and learning and saw that on some websites they ask potential participants to submit papers to attend. Do people submit these papers to get published at the conferences? Can I attend such conferences just to listen?
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In pre Internet times, scientific communication basically was done through papers and readings (at scholarly societies) in the beginning (that’s how scientific books and journals developed). In the 20s century conferences became one of the hot places to be to learn about new things in your specific field and discuss things with groups of people. It was basically the networking events of the year and often very fundamental concepts of fields stem from people discussing their different findings at conferences – which you first had to write down so others could review it.
Today conferences and their papers/proceedings can still be important, but nowadays it depends on the field and it’s way more diversified because communication is so much easier.
Source: I work in scientific publishing and the history of that is one of my favorite niche topics to read about. Yes, I talk about scientific journals all day and then read about them at night as well.
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