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  • VIRTUAL – PhD+ Workshop: Coping with Social Isolation and Anxiety in a Crisis

    Zoom CA, United States

    These are extraordinary times. In a matter of days, we have had to learn new ways of navigating our educational and occupational needs to meet our goals. This can be stressful. Our go-to coping strategy is often gathering with our social group and offering a shoulder to lean on, or accepting one. The world has […]

  • VIRTUAL – PhD+ Workshop: Social Media and Scholarly Practice

    Zoom CA, United States

    The field of higher ed is struggling to define its relationship to social media. We have all read high profile stories of offers and tenure denied because of online posts. At the same time, there is clear motivation for scholars to engage with public audiences and grow their reputations through social media. What are the risks, […]

  • CANCELLED: PhD+ Workshop – Feminist in the Academy

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Jacqueline Wernimont is an antiracist, feminist scholar working toward greater justice in digital cultures. She writes about long histories of media and technology—particularly those that count and commemorate—and entanglements with archives and historiographic ways of knowing. Her book, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media, is out with MIT Press. She is a network weaver across humanities, […]

  • CANCELLED: PhD+ Workshop – Equity-Minded Humanities Teaching

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    In this interactive PhD+ session, we will explore what current research in teaching and learning can bring to the Humanities, and what Humanities values, contexts, and ways of thinking can bring to our conceptions of teaching and learning. First, we'll define what equity means to us, both within our specific disciplines and within Humanities teaching […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating, Start Writing

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Not sure how to begin your dissertation work? Having a hard time fitting writing in amidst other obligations? Stuck in the middle of your process? Huh, what process? 8th-year PhD candidate struggling to finish? In this interactive workshop, PhD students at all stages will have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions and concerns about the […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Where Can I Go From Here? Exploring Careers Beyond Academia

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Curious about careers outside of academia, but not sure where to begin? In this interactive workshop, we’ll begin to explore the many career paths PhDs in the humanities can enter upon graduation. After a brief orientation to ImaginePhD, a career exploration and planning tool designed for PhDs in the Humanities and Social Sciences, we’ll discuss […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Demystifying the Publishing Process with UC Press

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Learn about the publishing process, including book proposals, pitches, meeting with editors, and contracts. University of California Press (UC Press) is one of the most forward-thinking scholarly publishers, committed to influencing public discourse and challenging the status quo. At a time of dramatic change for scholarship and publishing, UC Press collaborates with faculty, librarians, authors, and […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Research Development: Grants and Fellowships

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Learn about locating fellowship opportunities, framing your research for different funding organizations, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polić, Suraiya Jetha (The Humanities Institute) and Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director at University of California Humanities Research Institute). We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and […]

  • PhD+ Workshop Series: Writing for Graduate School and Beyond

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Workshop with Eric Hayot (Penn State) Why is writing so hard? Can It be easier? Possibly, Eric Hayot argues. But answering these questions well also asks us to think about the place of writing in humanities scholarship, and the ways in which our institutional patterns and structures, and our daily and psychological ones, shape what […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum with Adam Casdin (Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY) Independent high schools, committed to the humanities and able to develop and introduce major curricular initiatives quickly, may be students last experience of a broad-based, non-professionalized education. What does the future of teaching and learning look […]

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