Wednesday, 11/20:
VIRTUAL
3779 – Virtual Job Market and Career Roundtable
Time: 12:45 PM – 2 PM
This virtual roundtable explores a range of key experiences / career tracks that anthropology PhDs have pursued. The event will feature speakers who will discuss their own career trajectories and will leave ample time for discussion with audience members. Topics discussed may include (but are not necessarily limited to): working in anthropology departments, working in non-anthropology departments or multiple departments (and law schools), working outside of traditional academia (and networking and modifying the CV for that search), entering and navigating American job markets as non-American citizens, finding work outside of the US, working in R1 institutions as well as liberal arts schools and community colleges. We may also discuss job markets from the perspective of hiring committees, of tenured professors, and of newly hired professors.
IN PERSON
3781 – Graduate Student and Early Career Mixer, sponsored by APLA (Association for Political and Legal Anthropology)
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: The Pint and Brew, 200 N Tampa St g118, Tampa, FL 33602
Come and meet other grad student and early career anthropologists, break the ice, and hopefully relax a bit amidst the commotion of the conference. There will be food and drink and icebreakers with the goal of building new connections and opportunities for solidarity in the face of job market stress, precarity and the increasingly hostile climate faced by new and recent PhDs.
Thursday, 11/21:
IN PERSON:
Speaking Justice to Power, 2024: Responding to Manufactured Backlash: How to Defend Academic Freedom in the Upcoming Legislative Cycle
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Venue: Tampa Convention Center, Room 124
In response to the AAA theme of Praxis and calls for a more engaged response to the 2024 Florida location, APLA invites you to learn, connect and organize in a lecture/workshop event on promoting academic freedom and countering right wing attacks on higher education. Join APLA for a lecture by Isaac Kamola, a representative from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and then a workshop and brainstorming session. Isaac Kamola is an associate professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. He is author of Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War (with Ralph Wilson, 2021) and Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (2019), along with dozens of journal articles and book chapters. He is currently the director of the Mellon-funded Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
Friday, 11/22:
VIRTUAL
3813 – APLA Business Meeting
Time: 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
In order to make the APLA community as accessible as possible, we are hosting the APLA business meeting virtually this year. Please join us, from far and wide, for one hour of APLA-related activities and conversations. The winner of the 2024 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology will be announced, as will the winner of the APLA Student Paper Prize. We will announce and welcome the new editor of PoLAR and new APLA officers, and we will celebrate the service of outgoing officers and editors. Finally, we will discuss how APLA, as the section devoted to the study of politics and law, can safeguard academic freedom in this moment when critical scholarship is deeply under threat.
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