MLA Subconference 2015: “Non-Negotiable Sites of Struggle”

Here's something interesting: a subconference of the MLA. It’s unaffiliated with the annual MLA convention. Instead of classic MLA panel topics like literature and language, the subconference sessions bluntly confront the very real systemic problems crippling higher education today, such as skyrocketing university tuition, corporate and state repression of academic freedom, the adjunct labor crisis and increasing “precarity” (sporadic and unstable forms of employment), etc. You can watch the recorded subconference here.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/57342385

The MLA Subconference is organized by an independent "group of graduate students and adjunct faculty in the humanities who are interested in creating a new kind of conference environment, in order to propose alternative professional, social, and political possibilities for" themselves and their peers. You can find more here:

http://mlasubconference.org/2015-program/