International Relations

C01 - How?: ISA-Canada’s PD Pod

Date: Jun 3 | Time: 08:30am to 10:00am | Location:

Chair/Président/Présidente : Aly Tkachenko (University of Victoria)

Co-Chair/Président/Présidente : Liam Midzain-Gobin (Brock University)

When looking to pursue a scholarly career in international studies, one crucial question is: how? How do you decide where you want to live? How do you determine what you’ll study? Teach? How do you think about what the job is and what it entails? How do you remain a whole person in a job that can demand ever-increasing amounts of your time? And importantly, how have others made these decisions? This session will be a live recording of the ISA Canada Professional Development Committee's podcast, "How?" Hosted this season by Aly Tkachenko, the podcast brings you interviews that look at ‘how’ people have built and sustained a career in international studies, aiming to illuminate some of the potentials and pitfalls that await. Aimed at those early in their careers (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, ECIs and ECRs), there will be lessons for those at any stage, from senior scholars to those just beginning to consider what the career of a scholar focused on international studies looks like. The session will include both a roundtable discussion, as well as a Q&A that includes audience participation.