How online conferences can contribute to social justice: lessons from organizing the EADI ISS Conference 2021

The main comparative advantage of an online conference was without doubt this: anybody far away from The Hague would be able to join the meeting. Financial constraints, let alone visa- or virus-related restrictions, were suddenly neutralized by an online setting. By early May, we saw the registration of Global South participants booming! Almost half of the nearly 700 expected participants will be non-European and/or based in the Global South.