Greetings, ? Subject: "Blood on the Tenure Tracks: Paradoxes of Power in the Workplace" Speech at Public Anthropology Conference at American University, October 9-10, 2009 The 6th Annual Public Anthropology Conference at American University takes place on Friday and Saturday, October 9 and 10. This year's theme is "Advancing Social Justice in Times of Crisis". The two days will be filled with panels, workshops, round-table discussions, a film festival, a book fair and keynote speakers, Dr. Janice Harper and Dr. Roger Lancaster.?? See: http://www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/public/index.cfm I encourage all academics?to go and hear Janice Harper's speech.?Please invite all local media. Janice was unjustly fired from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in July. She is without income and suffering mightily. If you have not yet signed the Petition to encourage the AAA and SFAA to support her, please do sign now: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/11/petition-in-support-of-dr-janice-harper ? 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM Keynote Speaker: Dr. Janice Harper (Butler Board Room) Keynote Speaker: Dr. Janice Harper (Butler Board Room) ([email protected]) "Blood on the Tenure Tracks: Paradoxes of Power in the Workplace" The study of power is fundamental to activist and public anthropology, where critiques of social hierarchies and inequalities are explored in the publications and presentations on which our intellectual merits are measured. Yet when it comes to analyzing how power functions in the organizational cultures in which we daily work, do activists or public anthropologists identify or critique abuses of power as readily? In this address, I discuss how the academic freedom of teacher/scholars whose work focuses on politically sensitive subjects is most vulnerable to attack and suppression not from institutional or political forces outside our institutions, but from the colleagues with whom we compete for institutional resources and academic acclaim within the workplace, regardless of their professed political ideologies or the subject matter of their teaching and scholarship. By falling silent on, or denying, the capacity for abuses of power within our own corridors of power, I suggest, public anthropology is crippled, rather than empowered, by the ambitions of its own practitioners. outside our institutions, but from the colleagues with whom we compete for institutional resources and academic acclaim within the workplace, regardless of their professed political ideologies or the subject matter of their teaching and scholarship. By falling silent on, or denying, the capacity for abuses of power within our own corridors of power, I suggest, public anthropology is crippled, rather than empowered, by the ambitions of its own practitioners. Me again. . . . .This is an opportunity to engage in social justice issues of all kinds with activists, academics and community members. Registration is free and there will be 5 free meals provided throughout the conference. If anyone wants to financially contribute to help support Janice, please contact me. ? If anyone wants to interview her on their radio show, please contact me as well. ? In Solidarity, ? Brian McKenna Anthropologist? ? ?
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