Just got the latest issue of Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association. This month’s exciting cover story: The 2012 Annual Meeting: A Retrospective. Like we need a glossy, full-color spread to jog our memories of something that happened literally last month. Anyways, I usually let my fellow historians be, but this shit is wack for the following two reasons:
1. I am not featured anywhere in the magazine, despite my attendance at several exclusive historian parties and the fact that I asked excellent and probing questions at several panels.
2. The pictures of awkward throngs of historians made me feel like I was looking into an inevitable abyss where I grow up to wear polyester pantsuits and those chains that connect your glasses to your neck every day and also marry a dude who is literally a genius but can’t figure out how to buy a blazer that fits. It’s not hard, people. Buy one that fits your shoulders and have the fucker tailored. You can afford it. I know you can, because you just dropped $75 in booze at the hotel bar. How do I know you just did that? Because you’re a historian.
Bonus reason: My subfield had a cocktail reception, and not only was there a cash bar, it was more expensive than the hotel bar downstairs. I spent two hours ferrying drinks up ten flights in-between chatting with Mexican historians about the need to integrate Iberian colonial studies as a global field, not one just limited to the geographic limitations of present-day Latin America.
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josephfm said:
This is pretty much what librarians deal with all the time too, only we actually try to be hipper…and ALA midwinter worried several Dallas restaurants of their tequila stocks.
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caracalla said:
One day, that will be me.
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