Sari van Anders, Promoting Yourself via Building Academic Community: A practical and hands-on why-to and how-to

Self-promotion can feel awkward, slimy, or inauthentic; it doesn’t have to. In this workshop, we will discuss self-promotion framed within notions of building connectedness and situating you (more) in your discipline and related networks. We will discuss why we should self-promote and how to do it, using concrete examples of what has worked in the presenter’s experience and how.

We will use hands-on activities and exercises, and attendees will take home individualized examples to jump-start or enhance their own practice. In addition, we will discuss how our own social locations (intersecting axes of oppression and/or privilege) may affect whether and how we do/n’t self-promote and people’s responses to that, and what to do given this. Self-promotion can be an important part of building your academic community and critical to many kinds of recognition and opportunity, and this workshop will help you think through this important aspect of academic life in ways that make sense for you.

Presenter: Sari van Anders, Sari van Anders, Canada 150 Research Chair in Social Neuroendocrinology, Sexuality, and Gender/Sex, and Professor of Psychology, Gender Studies, and Neuroscience, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada.

Registration is full. Please contact Jamie Saville (jsaville@umich.edu) to be added to the waitlist.