History Grad Student Professionalization Workshop & T.A. Roundtable: This two-part event will take place Friday, January 14th at the Gwenna Moss Teaching & Learning Centre (Main Library, ground floor), from 1:30-4:30 (1:30-3:00 Workshop; 3:00-4:30 Roundtable).

This year the traditional winter follow-up to the fall TA Workshop, the TA Roundtable, is being preceded by an additional workshop on what we are calling “professionalization”. It sometimes helps to think of the history profession as a particular (peculiar might be a better word) culture, one with its own protocols, folkways, silences and taboos. Traditionally, students are left to find their own way into this culture, for better or worse. This workshop is intended to help demystify the profession, smooth the process of acculturation, and, above all, help our current M.A. and Ph.D. candidates make more informed decisions about whether the profession is right for them, whether to continue to a doctorate or on to the job market, and how best to proceed down those paths. All History Grad Students are encouraged to attend.

John McCannon and Frank Klaassen will lead the Professionalization Workshop. It will be followed immediately by the T.A. Roundtable, led by Gordon DesBrisay, in which T.A.s will share their teaching questions, suggestions, tips and tactics. All current T.A.s are encouraged to attend. Retired T.A.s will be most welcome.

All interested faculty are also invited. Food and drink will be served.