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Contingent Futures: Lecturers & graduate students discuss academic labor/privatized education

Event date and time: 
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 9:00am
Location: 
300 Wheeler
Event description: 

Are UC lecturers "adjuncts"?  What does the word “adjunct” mean at UCB?  Does it have a different meaning here than elsewhere?  Let’s talk with your current and future colleagues, lecturers and graduate students, about this and related questions this coming Wednesday, 2/25, at 5 pm. Both new and experienced lecturers are warmly invited to this event, cosponsored by the lecturers’ and graduate students unions, in celebration of the National Adjunct Day of Action.  We’ll have food and drink. 

Contingent Futures: A conversation between graduate students and lecturers about academic labor and privatized education at UCB and beyond

On Wednesday, February 25, the National Adjunct Day of Action, UAW and UC-AFT will jointly sponsor a conversation between lecturers and graduate students about academic labor at UC.  Topics will include (time permitting)

the historical and current role of contingent labor in the university;
UC lecturers’ “adjunct” status, privatization, and the decline of shared governance;
the lecturers’ contract and goals for contract negotiations currently getting under way;
the career transition from graduate student to lecturer;
graduate students’ and lecturers’ shared academic work;
opportunities for organizing together.

A panel of four lecturers will offer personal perspectives on such issues, followed by an open conversation among all who attend.

Speakers:

Kurt Spreyer, Lecturer in Environmental Science and Policy, President, UC-AFT Local 1474
John Wallace, Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Board Member, UC-AFT Local 1474
Kathryn Klar, Lecturer in Celtic Studies, Former President and Treasurer, UC-AFT Local 1474
4th speaker TBA

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