As universities adjust to new pressures, the experiences and ideas of graduate students and recent PhDs remain largely unheard. Everyday graduate students, postdocs, and adjuncts talk about teaching, balancing personal and professional lives, and the difficulties of earning tenure, among many other things, in the hallways and offices of university departments. Yet grad students have very few public forums in which to communicate their experiences and express their opinions. We take these experiences and ideas seriously as an opportunity to improve the condition of graduate students, to offer hopeful solutions for the future of academia, and to foster greater collaboration between graduate students, adjuncts, tenured professors, and post-academics.
We chose the manifesto form for its ability to simultaneously address important issues and hail its audience as an active public for positive change. This panel aims to create a public forum that uses the manifesto—understood broadly—to address the issues that are facing us today. Rather than an airing of grievances, we seek affirmative manifestos that expose the experiences, declare new approaches, and organize new and existing networks of academics and postacademics. Manifestos should be 1,000 words or less, and formal experimentation is encouraged. Submit a 250-word abstract to Maglina Lubovich (mlubovic@css.edu) and Steven Davis (stevdavi@indiana.edu) by June 20, 2011.
Possible topics might include:
• Job Market/Post-Academic Alternatives
• Race/Gender/Sexuality/Ability/Class/Religion and Academia
• Coursework/Exams/Dissertation
• Teaching/Funding
• Research/Publishing
• Medical/Mental Health
• Undergraduate/Graduate/Adjunct/Faculty/Post-Academic Collaboration
• Balancing Family and Profession
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