In a few weeks, I will be part of a panel at the 2011 meeting of the American Historical Association. The session is: "Careers in History: The Variety of the Profession." The session will be on the first day of the conference: Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 3 pm. The focus of this panel will be as on using your Ph.D. when you cannot get a job in a conventional history department. The conference program committee is expecting a heavy turnout, and has put us in a big room. C-Span has asked for permission to record the session. In an ironic twist, the AHA put this panel in a central location next to the job center. (It is ironic in that most of those interviews will be for jobs in history departments, otherwise the location would seem approrpriate.) The room is also near the messaging center. So that will encourage additional foot traffic.
Here is an excerpt from page 39 of the 2011 conference program:
Since this AHA session will be discussing many of the issues that I have tried to examine with this blog, I would like to invite all of you to attend. This panel will be far more productive if we have interested people. So please come. This session has the potential to be very interesting--and informative.
Dear Mr. Sarantakes,
ReplyDeletePlease post a link to the video here when it comes into being. I'd love to make your talk available to students here at Monmouth College (IL).
Yours,
Tim Lacy
Visiting Assistant Professor
Monmouth College
That is good idea. I will see if I can get the techonology to cooperate. It should work.
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