AERI Institute 2009

The Ethnographic Methods workshop now has a handout for download. You will need the password. Please contact Kim Anderson (kima/ucla.edu) or Josh Sternfeld (aeri/gseis.ucla.edu) for the password.

We cannot escape the fact that many of the participants will be tweeting about the Institute. For archival purposes, please include the subject #aeri09 in all tweets.

You can download the names list for the doctoral mentoring sessions scheduled for Monday and the junior faculty session on Friday here.  We have assigned 5 mentors for approximately 9-10 students, so there should be plenty of opportunity for close consultation.  Mentors needn’t “prepare” anything ahead of time — we would like the sessions to be constructed according to the questions and areas of interest expressed by the mentees.  Topics to consider should be: conducting doctoral research, dissertation writing, interacting with advisers, career development, going on the job market, and publishing; and for the junior faculty: securing tenure, building a teaching/research portfolio, grant writing, and publishing.

As the day quickly approaches, you have probably received emails from the instructors for the various workshops and seminars.  Many of the agendas have been posted to our Seminars & Workshops.  Please check the pages for further updates, materials, and assignments.