AWSS roundtable on grad student issues at AAASS

[Sibelan Forrester]

Dragi SEELANG-ovci,

Let me remind everyone who plans to attend the AAASS conference in Seattle
next week that this year's AWSS-sponsored roundtable is devoted to a
presentation and discussion of issues facing graduate students.  The
roundtable will meet on Saturday, November 22 from 10:00 to 11:45.

The participants are Anne Q. Eakin (Stanford U), Elizabeth C.English (U of
Pennsylvania), Elizabeth J. Hemenway (UNC and Tulane University), Connie
Wawruck-Hemmet (U of Winnipeg), and Cheri C. Wilson (U of Minnesota).
Their fields include Architectural Theory, Russian and Soviet History, and
Russian Literature, and their status ranges from second year of graduate
school to PhD Candidate.

Topics will include:  working on Russian topics in a "peripheral"
discipline; establishing good working and mentoring relationships with
faculty; coordinating family life, especially children, with graduate
study; working through or around emergency or chronic health difficulties.
Most of these issues connect to a crucial issue for women in academics:
how to thrive both as a scholar and a person in a system that seems to
persist in imagining the academic in ways that are as outdated for many men
in graduate school as they are for women.

Knowing how important these questions and similar ones have been to many of
us, we hope for a stimulating and informative discussion at the panel!

Hoping to see you there --

Sibelan Forrester
AWSS Vice President