Conferencing 101: Pre-PAC Workshops for Students

With the 2025 Public Anthropology Conference approaching, the PAC Core Planning Team is offering workshops and information sessions for students. Highlighting student work is one of our main PAC goals (with at least 20% of our sessions committed to students), but we know that applying for conferences can be intimidating and daunting. As such, our goal with these workshops is to both demystify the process of applying for conferences in general and to offer students the context, encouragement, and time to apply for PAC 2025. 

We are offering two workshops. Register to receive the respective Zoom link.  

• Thursday, August 28 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST • Register for Session 1 

• Tuesday, September 2 from 3:00pm – 4:30pm EST• Register for Session 2 

The approximate agenda for each session is as follows (based on a 90-minute session): 

• 00-10 Welcome and Introductions 

• 10-40 Conferencing 101 

• Typical Expectations & Norms 

• The Conference Glossary 

• The Application Process 

• Types of Applications 

• What is an “abstract” and how do you write one? 

• 40-50: Public Anthropology Conference 2025  

• What to expect 

• How we’re centering student work 

• Questions

• 50-90 Workshopping Proposals for PAC 2025: Time for drafting proposals, getting feedback, and submitting applications