2h
i made some awesome friends in my peer group but this conference was so stupid. jewish studies academics will see an antizionist scholar and get like comically hostile. obviously. i can handle the heat regardless but my supervisor was there and all her mates were raising their voices and speaking over me, insisting i define what certain political concepts mean to my participants when i haven’t done my fieldwork yet, whispering to each other and laughing while i was talking, calling my few ethnographic vignettes a “one-hit wonder” (again—i’m like 18 months out from starting my fieldwork). like. lol and lmao. other people’s supervisors stepped in when the critique got obtuse and not constructive. mine just sat back and didn’t say a word
