ABSTRACT
Disciplines pervade academic life. One might think of the learned societies we belong to, the academic journals we read, the conferences we attend, the courses we teach and the colleagues we choose to collaborate or communicate with about our work. Disciplines frequently provide the basis for how academic departments are organized and they tend to manifest themselves in the ways in which departments and offices are adorned; that is in the artifacts and symbols that can be observed there, which are readily understood by other members of the disciplinary community.
