"academic conference" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
For example, you could write "I recently attended an academic conference to discuss the latest trends in healthcare."
"This is not an academic conference," he said.
For an academic conference it is remarkably unstuffy.
Not what you'd expect to hear at an academic conference, perhaps, but then this wasn't your typical academic conference.
So did an academic conference in August held in the Mari capital, Yoshkar-Ola.
PICTURE this, if you can.Last month, I attended an international academic conference.
Wilkinson, it charged, was part of a "tight and incestuous" counter-terrorism academic conference circuit.
It's why they deserve an academic conference in a way that Oasis, say, never will.
"And two years ago I started an academic conference on donor eggs.
An academic conference she attended a couple of years ago in New York was "so boring".
Rewind to one afternoon in 2006 and I'm at my first academic conference about computer games.
"Traditionally, this was a very academic conference that had no impact outside the specialist field.
