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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grad Slam Presentation Prep: Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:This brief workshop provides an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking\, including managing anxiety\, key delivery techniques\, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches\, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations.  It will include some interactive personalized exercises. If you have your grad slam talk and one optional slide ready to practice for a preliminary divisional round\, February 13-17\, you may practice your talk (with your optional one PowerPoint slide) for feedback from Catherine Carlstroem at either workshop. If attending in person\, bring your laptop to join the Zoom meeting to share your slide via screen share\, if you have a slide. \nUCSC faculty and alum Catherine Carlstroem (PhD American Literature) is a longtime lecturer in Humanities at UCSC (over 30 years) and has enjoyed teaching public speaking for over 10 of these. Along with teaching\, she coordinates the Cowell Core Course. \nRegister for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary lunch provided to in-person attendees. There is an additional session on the same day from 2:00-4:00 PM\, accessible in person at the Graduate Commons Fireside Lounge or via Zoom. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grad-slam-presentation-prep-public-speaking/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Carole McGranahan\, "Drafting Stages"
DESCRIPTION:Join UCSC’s Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse in a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nIn conversation with Carole McGranahan\, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado and the author of Arrested Histories: Tibet\, the CIA\, and Memories of a Forgotten War (2010)\, co-editor of Imperial Formations (2007) and Ethnographers of U.S. Empire (2018)\, and editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment (2020). \nGraduate students from all disciplines are welcome! \nPlease register here. \nThis event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-carole-mcgranahan-drafting-stages/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T140000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Psychology of Writing
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! \nAndrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, master’s in English literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder\, and an all but dissertation in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for nearly 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College\, where she teaches English. Andrea is the director of The Writing Center and of its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center\, one of the Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives of the Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) Graduate Pathways program (Activity 6). Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature\, and her work is deeply invested in social justice. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-psychology-of-writing-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Identity\, Belonging\, and Community
DESCRIPTION:Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a workshop and discussion on identity\, belonging\, and community. All grads welcome! \nFrom left to right – Lorato Anderson\, Marilia Kaisar\, Radhika Prasad\nLorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects\, as well as providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English Language Learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active today. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. Lorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences; her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics\, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice\, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies\, in her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \nMarilia Kaisar (Lead Mentor – Arts) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Pratt Institute and a Diploma in Architecture Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her experimental practice uses affect theory and a feminist perspective to explore intersections of media\, technology\, and desire\, using the body as the nexus point. Currently working on her dissertation titled “F*cking with the Virtual”. \nRadhika Prasad (Lead Mentor – Humanities) “I’m a sixth year PhD candidate in the Literature department with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. My academic interests include South Asian literature and history\, translation studies\, language politics\, and feminisms in the Global South. As a sixth year international student and a woman of color\, I have found the university to be a space of immense possibility\, but also great inequity. Peer mentorship programs are an important step towards bridging the knowledge gap\, and making universities\, classrooms\, graduate programs\, and research into more equitable spaces\, and I am excited to contribute to this one.” \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-identity-belonging-and-community/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Accessing Campus Resources
DESCRIPTION:Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a presentation and discussion about the many campus resources available to graduate students. Representatives from multiple campus resources including CAPS\, Slug Support\, Basic Needs\, the Restorative Justice Program\, and OMBUDS will be there to share information and answer questions. All grads are welcome and encouraged to attend! \nFood provided for in-person attendees. Register in advance to declare food preferences and dietary restrictions or to submit questions for resource representatives. \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-accessing-campus-resources/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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