Thursday, May 21, 2020 | 1:00PM–2:00PM ET | Online

Webinar | Affective Labor Under COVID-19

In the face of moving entire university curriculums online in a moment's notice, faculty developers, academic technologists, and IT support staff (among others) have been called on to provide for faculty not only technical support but also emotional support while keeping a positive, brave, and supportive face for faculty in order to help ease the transition to distance delivery online. This is, as defined by Hochschild, very real emotional labor, where we are working to "induce or suppress feeling in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of mind in others." The purpose of this webinar is to help us better understand affective and emotional labor, to discuss ways to help manage this kind of work and, once this crisis has passed, find ways to better recognize and reward this work.

Outcomes

  • Be able to define affective labor and understand its impact on our work
  • Identify strategies for coping with affective labor
  • Facilitate further discussions on affective labor in the workplace

Presenters

  • Lindsay Bernhagen

    Director, Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
  • Melissa Dalgleish

    Program Manager, Research Training Centre, SickKids Research Institute
  • Martha Diede

    Director, Syracuse University
  • Lee Skallerup Bessette

    Assistant Director for Digital Learning, Georgetown University

Resources & Downloads

  • Slides

    433 KB, pdf - Updated on 9/4/2024
  • Transcript

    164 KB, pdf - Updated on 9/4/2024
  • Chat Transcript

    133 KB, pdf - Updated on 9/4/2024
  • Recording

    Updated on 9/4/2024

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