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[anisogamy]

Ask for things that are critical to your specific needs, e.g. freedom to attend the preeminent conference in your subfield which always gets scheduled in week 1 of the semester, ability to spend a week off campus during peak frog-collecting season, or similar things.

Ooooh, thanks for that suggestion, Porcupine.  I hadn't thought to negotiate upfront for the conference that will be timed badly in the term for my dream job.

Yes, I just made a mental note of this as well, as I'd been stressing about a poorly timed conference in my first semester if I do get an offer for next year.  Thank you!

[porcupine]

There are different ways of doing this.

In my own case, I said to my chair (having just volunteered to do some committee work that nobody else wanted to do), "By the way, I already have a paper accepted to this terribly important and prestigious conference - you don't mind me going if I fix someone to cover the class I will miss, do you?" Once the chair said it was fine, I mentioned when the date was. I didn't make it a formal request during negotiation, though now I wish I had done, as I have the same issue each year with two or three stupidly-timed but important conferences.

A colleague of mine does fieldwork timed to a specific event in a foreign country and had it specified in their contract that they could be away from campus during the relevant periods. If I ever (looks upwards appealingly and earnestly towards the Job Search Deities) get a better job, I will ask for something analogous.