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How To Do Conferences

Surviving Your First Conference: Tips for Anxious Newbies

By Karen Kelsky | January 9, 2020

I get a lot of questions about the Academic Conference from junior academics. Conferences are daunting! Even for more senior people. But they are an essential part of your academic career, so the sooner you get comfortable, the better - and honestly … [Read more...] about Surviving Your First Conference: Tips for Anxious Newbies

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, How To Do Conferences, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student

A Tale of Two Conferences

By Karen Kelsky | November 24, 2018

I am just back from a back-to-back conference trip, first to the American Anthropological Association conference in San Jose, and then on to Denver for the American Academy of Religion. At each conference I spoke on the postacademic transition. I … [Read more...] about A Tale of Two Conferences

Filed Under: #Resistance, Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, How To Do Conferences, Marginalized Voices, Post-Ac Job Search

Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion

By Karen Kelsky | May 23, 2015

The book inches closer to actually existing in the material world (August 4)!  It has gotten some lovely blurbs by amazing people, like this one by the inimitable Rebecca Schuman: “If you would like your academic career to begin in delusion and end … [Read more...] about Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear

“I’m Sorry I Wasn’t More Clear”: Gendered Pitfalls in Presentations–A Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | May 8, 2015

The writer is a regular reader of TPII. I'm a young, female, non-tenure-track faculty member and longtime reader of this blog. A few of its posts, specifically “The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make in Academic Settings,” “Stop Negotiating Like a Girl” … [Read more...] about “I’m Sorry I Wasn’t More Clear”: Gendered Pitfalls in Presentations–A Guest Post

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Buy My Book!

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2015

Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40!  Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, Tenure--How To Get It, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

Taking Baby to Conference: A Crowdsource Project

By Karen Kelsky | December 5, 2014

On Facebook in November, I posted this query: “A reader wonders about taking baby to conference: "I'm particularly interested to know if people (grad students in particular) walked around with their babies or if they kept them hidden away (oy). … [Read more...] about Taking Baby to Conference: A Crowdsource Project

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

On Going to the National Meetings

By Karen Kelsky | November 27, 2013

I was scared to go to the AAAs.* I was worried about so many things.  That, after not attending even once since leaving my career as a tenured cultural anthropologist, I’d be alone and friendless. That I’d discover I really had burned every single … [Read more...] about On Going to the National Meetings

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)

By Karen Kelsky | May 10, 2013

For the next few months I will be posting the "best of the best" Professor is in blog posts on the job market, for the benefit of all those girding their loins for the 2013-2014 … [Read more...] about The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: academic job market help, assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, getting a tenure track job, How to deal with professors, How to shake hands, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school

How to Organize a Panel for a Conference

By Karen Kelsky | March 15, 2013

Over the past couple of weeks I've been engrossed in CV Advance Strategizing Sessions with many clients. The work has gone well, and we quickly move through all of the elements required for a powerful and effective academic record for next year's job … [Read more...] about How to Organize a Panel for a Conference

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood

Working the Conference: A Letter from a Client

By Karen Kelsky | January 8, 2013

I have a series of blog posts called How To Work the Conference Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.  Here is a story from last week that shows why you should do what they say. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Karen, I just attended the annual … [Read more...] about Working the Conference: A Letter from a Client

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Do Conferences, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear

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