October 2022 - HGSA

Library Committee Reminder (Fixed Links)

by Wilkerson, Kabl

Hi folks, Sorry all for the broken links; try these instead: 1. when2meet: https://www.when2meet.com/?17469495-Twueb 2. Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebp40oLkXSfIwbxJhfMhusL5nix0-Xthc… Thanks! Sincerely, Library Committee

1 year, 6 months

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Library Committee Reminder

by Wilkerson, Kabl

Hi all, If you have not already done so, and you're interested in joining the Library Committee, please fill out the included when2meet <http://when2meet.> by 5:00 pm today. To get added to our Library Committee mailing list, please send in your email here. We will send out this week's meeting time after 5:00 pm today. Again, you do *not* have to be a member of HGSA to join the Library Committee. If you love the grad Lounge and want to see it improved, that's reason enough to get involved! Best, Saffron, Kabl & Sanjay

1 year, 6 months

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Graduate Lounge 10:00 AM - Meeting w/Paige Glotzer

by Alyass, Kenneth

Dear all, A big reminder that we are hosting Professor Paige Glotzer in the Graduate Lounge tomorrow from 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM! I urge everyone interested in providing feedback to the department on faculty hiring to attend. You will have an opportunity provide anonymous feedback on each candidate. Whatever you write is read directly by the search committee. If you have any questions, please email me! Best, Kenneth -- Kenneth Alyass PhD Candidate Harvard University Department of History Graduate Fellow at the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History kalyass(a)g.harvard.edu https://scholar.harvard.edu/kennethalyass

1 year, 6 months

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Fwd: History Job Market Events and Office of Career Services

by Alyass, Kenneth

Starting now!! Join below! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bertwell, Dan <bertwell(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 2:32 PM Subject: RE: History Job Market Events and Office of Career Services To: Bertwell, Dan <bertwell(a)fas.harvard.edu> Hello All, I write with a reminder that the first of our two Fall Job-Market Events will take place a week from *Friday, on October 28th, from 3:00 to 4:00*. You can find the Zoom information below my signature. This conversation with feature two of our recent graduates, *Kristin Oberiano* (Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University) and *Samantha Payne* (Assistant Professor of History, College of Charleston). These events are always quite helpful for students and I hope we have many of you there. The second event will take place on Friday, November 18th, from 2:00 to 3:00 and will feature Professor Phil Deloria and Professor David Spreen. I’ll send the Zoom info for that event after the first one, but please do mark your calendar. Best, Dan <http://zoom.us/> Dan Bertwell is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting <https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95535242867?pwd=WVZRUDYwdXZyWmtMOWZPTjcxSlFrZz09> Meeting URL: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95535242867?pwd=WVZRUDYwdXZyWmtMOWZPTjcxSlFrZz09 *Join by telephone* (use any number to dial in) Dial: +1 646 931 3860 +1 929 436 2866 +1 301 715 8592 +1 309 205 3325 +1 312 626 6799 +1 719 359 4580 +1 253 215 8782 +1 346 248 7799 +1 386 347 5053 +1 564 217 2000 +1 669 444 9171 +1 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 955 3524 2867 International numbers <https://harvard.zoom.us/u/aebJXHimoE> One tap mobile: +16469313860,,95535242867# US *Join by SIP conference room system * Meeting ID: 955 3524 2867 Password: 443770 SIP: 95535242867.443770(a)zoomcrc.com *From:* Bertwell, Dan *Sent:* Friday, October 07, 2022 10:59 AM *To:* Bertwell, Dan <bertwell(a)fas.harvard.edu> *Subject:* History Job Market Events and Office of Career Services *Importance:* High Hello All, I write with two big updates on the department’s job market events, as well as some information from the Office of Career Services. Our first two job market events will take place in late October and mid-November. I will follow up next week with the Zoom information, but wanted to be sure you were all able to get them into your calendar. They are (I acknowledge that I need to come up with better names for these): - The Academic Job Market from Recent Harvard History PhD Candidate Perspective: This will take place on *Friday, October 28th, from 3:00 to 4:00 *over Zoom and will feature two recent graduates of our program, Prof. Kristin Oberiano (now at Wesleyan) and Prof. Samantha Payne (now at the College of Charleston). - The Academic Job Market from Harvard Faculty Perspective: This will take place on *Friday, November 18th, from 2:00 to 3:00* over Zoom and will feature two current faculty members, Prof. Philip Deloria and Prof. David Spreen. Our next two job market events, these ones focused on careers outside academia, will take place early in the Spring semester. Also, I was recently forwarded some very helpful materials from the Office of Career Services. Please see the information below about events and helpful tools they have to offer, as well as the attached PDFs from them. Best, Dan We have much more to share, but here are just a few resources that you and your students/alums may find helpful – feel free to share: 1. Please encourage your students and recent alums to *schedule an appointment* with me or Caroline in Crimson Careers <https://harvard-csm.symplicity.com/students/?signin_tab=0&signin_tab=0> 1. We have just finished updates to our “*What You Can Be with a Harvard PhD*” booklet (attached) 1. Also attached is a slide that points students toward the *Humanities@Work programs* (and a career fair) that are on tap for this fall. The program on *User Experience Research* happened last week, but our speaker provided the slides <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o1isTxX1gPrVUzTA0H9lpCmMN6AbwVPlTOw…> and a fantastic resource list <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZ01A-5A9AEpuMk7hm0EMHujQDm8w6RITwjoajo…> . 1. We also presented an orientation webinar for PhD students in August: How Harvard Can Help You Land a Job or Internship <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tfwt7zvxhE> (additional resource list is attached) 1. In January , we will offer our annual panel: “*Leveraging Your PhD: Why Employers Value Your Skills*” – this event features several GSAS alums who work in a variety of careers outside of academia, and we always ensure that we have broad disciplinary representation including humanists and social scientists. 1. In the spring semester, we will offer again, “*Cracking the Culture around Careers*” which pairs faculty with their former mentees (now alums working beyond academia) to discuss how they worked together as the then-PhD student explored careers beyond academia. This event is focused on the humanities and social sciences, and *we would love to feature a pair from the history department this spring*! Do you have any suggestions of faculty members who have been particularly supportive of their students? Ideally we would like to feature one of their mentees who is now working outside academe. -- Kenneth Alyass PhD Candidate Harvard University Department of History Graduate Fellow at the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History kalyass(a)g.harvard.edu https://scholar.harvard.edu/kennethalyass

1 year, 6 months

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Happy Hour at 6PM Today

by Alyass, Kenneth

Dear all, I hope this email written in *COMIC SANS* finds you well! Happy Hour will be at 6PM today in the grad lounge!

1 year, 6 months

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Library Committee!

by Sener, Saffron

Hi everyone! The HGSA recently started the Library Committee, a working group dedicated to making the grad lounge a functioning library and study space that benefits all of us. We're looking for History grad students interested in participating! You do not need to be in the HGSA, we're looking for anyone interested in helping improve the grad lounge as a space which works for us all. We'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas, and foresee this group working on projects like: making storage cubbies for grad students, art installations, creating a full kitchenette… and more! If you’re interested, please let Kabl, me, or Sanjay know! We want to have our first meeting soon, so if you'd like to attend, please fill out this when2meet: https://www.when2meet.com/?17469495-Twueb. We're so excited to improve this space we all care so much about with you! We'll send an update out to all interested with the meeting time soon. Warmly, Saffron, Kabl, & Sanjay

1 year, 6 months

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UAW Election

by Alyass, Kenneth

Dear all, A message from me on the upcoming UAW election. Brandon, the former president of our local HGSU-UAW, is running for the position of UAW Region 9A Director. He is the ONLY higher ed worker in the race. It’s imperative we have folks like him at the top levels of the UAW to represent our labor movement. If you have any questions about the election or the reform movement in the UAW, feel free to email me. —————- I am writing to you in my personal capacity as a HGSU-UAW member to endorse our former president and fellow historian Brandon Mancilla, the only higher ed worker in the race, for UAW Region 9A Director, along with the entire UAW Members United Slate backed by Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the rank-and-file caucus that led the campaign last year for One Member, One Vote. I’m asking you to vote for Brandon Mancilla, Shawn Fain for President, Margaret Mock for Secretary-Treasurer, Rich Boyer and Mike Booth for Vice President. You should have already or will soon receive a ballot in the mail for the UAW International Executive Board elections. Fill out and send it back when you get it! While you might not hear about how the UAW affects our local union too often, the leadership and policies of the UAW do have a big impact on our ability to organize and win strong contracts. How does this affect us? - We need an ambitious national academic labor movement. We haven’t been able to build a movement with other higher ed unions in the UAW, which has impacted our ability to win stronger contracts. Established leaders actively inhibited building connections across different academic worker unions, but we know we are stronger when we fight together. Our regional director could be building out spaces for communication across universities, and a regional organizing committee for us to build strong campaigns together, but they never have - these are core components of Brandon’s platform. - The UAW can set higher standards in higher ed contracts. To be able to win massive improvements in our contracts such as cost of living adjustments, real recourse, better health insurance, we need to be building a movement that has broad, collective power on campus. Our current top-down UAW leadership has no interest in this and has proven to be incapable of doing so even if they wanted to. - Strong, democratic unions are a crucial part of climate justice. While reducing internal combustion engines is an important piece in climate change mitigation, there are more than 150,000 autoworkers in the UAW whose livelihood is fundamentally threatened by electric vehicle production, and the incumbent UAW leadership has no plan for how to protect workers and ensure a just transition. Brandon Mancilla and the Members United slate have a real plan <https://uawd.org/organizing/> for a worker-led transition; voting for them is your chance to influence U.S.-wide industrial policy. Last year, HGSU voted 97.5% in favor of One Member, One Vote, the highest of any local in the UAW. It’s important to make sure that our elected leaders support empowering every single member of the UAW through our right to vote. The current leadership - running as the Curry Solidarity Team, including Brandon’s opponent, the incumbent director Bev Brakeman - opposed your right to vote in this election. Our home region in New England, Region 9A, had the lowest turnout of any region in the UAW, but the highest percentage of support for One Member, One Vote. This means there is general enthusiasm for democracy and reform, but we also have to turn out! Preserving our ability to enact change in the UAW will depend on everybody checking their mailbox and taking two minutes to bubble in the Members’ United Slate with Brandon Mancilla for Region 9A director and then sending your ballot back in the mail as soon as you are able (ideally the day you receive it). Solidarity, Kenneth -- Kenneth Alyass PhD Candidate Harvard University Department of History Graduate Fellow at the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History kalyass(a)g.harvard.edu https://scholar.harvard.edu/kennethalyass

1 year, 6 months

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Bagels, Bagels, Bagels, Bagels

by Wilkerson, Kabl

Do you hear that? The deep yowls of the people? Oh how they want for bagels. They cry out every Thursday through Tuesday for bagels; but alas, ‘tis only Wednesdays at approximately 10:00-11:30am that their cries are answered. Bagels will be in the lounge around 10 this morning. -- Kabl Wilkerson Citizen Potawatomi Nation PhD Student, Department of History Presidential Scholar & Pforzheimer Fellow Harvard University

1 year, 6 months

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Happy Hour at 5pm Today

by Alyass, Kenneth

Happy Hour will be at 5PM today! Be there or be *SQUARE.*

1 year, 6 months

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Bagels?

by Sanjay K. Paul

Have you considered the bagel? What makes it so? Is it the hole in the middle? One should be wary of this conclusion. After all, is the donut not also missing its center? Perhaps it is its spongy texture and the fact that it pairs well with spreadable toppings that defines the bagel. Alas, how far do these attributes make it different from bread? Does butter not also taste fantastic on the perfect piece of toast? It must then be its provenance! Yet are dumplings not boiled and is sourdough not baked? Indeed, it seems far from unique among processed grains. Maybe no amount of conjecture will lead us to a certain answer. Eat one. Plumb the depths of the bagel in search of its essence today. Bagels are in the lounge. SKP

1 year, 6 months

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