This occasion is a end result of the Obermann Middle’s multi-year grant from the Mellon Basis targeted on the transformation of humanities graduate schooling, Humanities for the Public Good.
Over the past 4 years, over 100 college, employees, directors, graduate college students, and visiting audio system have envisioned and created a number of ways in which graduates from humanities PHD packages can fuse their research in particular disciplines with abilities and studying experiences that put together them to adapt the strategies, mindsets, analysis and writing experience to serve the general public good in any variety of workplaces and careers. The grant has allowed us to prepare symposia, lead skills-focused workshops, provoke course revisions, and remodel graduate seminars in a lot of departments into “humanities labs.” A summer time internship program has despatched about 40 graduate college students out to work in nonprofits over the past a number of summers. We’ve collected a wealth of concepts and techniques, and we’re gathering these now for a publicly accessible digital Pressbook.
To have a good time the thrilling outcomes of the grant, we now have invited leaders of modern graduate packages that additionally see the humanities as essential to the general public good to affix us for this two-day symposium. This might be a possibility to share our successes and, as we now have all through the grant interval, to construct an area and nationwide studying neighborhood of scholars, employees, and college dedicated to new prospects for graduate schooling within the humanities.
View a tentative schedule and presenter bios.
The symposium is free and open to all.
Co-sponsored by the Obermann Middle, the Iowa Metropolis Public Library, and the UI Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
10:00-11:30am, FilmScene on the Chauncey
Welcome
—Teresa Mangum, Director, Obermann Middle for Superior Research, UI
Reframing the Humanities as Helpful
—Alan Liu, Distinguished Professor, English, College of California, Santa Barbara; co-founder and -leader, 4Humanities.org
In dialog with Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Affiliate VP for Analysis within the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UI; and Roland Racevskis, Affiliate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, CLAS, UI
Learn Alan Liu’s Thought Piece, “Needed: Humanities Communicators”
11:45am-12:45pm, FilmScene on the Chauncey
12:45-2:00pm
2:00–3:00pm, Iowa Metropolis Public Library Rooms A, B, and C
Lunch by yourself
Engaged and Public Humanities and Graduate Schooling: The MA Diploma at Georgetown
—Kathryn Temple, Professor, English, and Founding father of the MA in Engaged and Public Humanities, Georgetown College
In dialog with Christine Getz, Affiliate Dean for Graduate Research and Outreach and Engagement, CLAS, UI; and Brady Krien, Assistant Director for Graduate Pupil Success and Evaluation, Graduate Faculty, UI
Learn Kathryn Temple’s Thought Piece, “Humanities Graduate College Reform for Social Justice”
3:00-3:10pm
3:10-4:10pm, Iowa Metropolis Public Library Rooms A, B, and C
Break
Open Home That includes Our Obermann Interns
Experiential Graduate Schooling: Classes from Humanities for the Public Good Summer season Interns
—Uche Anomnachi, American Research, PS1
—Andrew Boge, Communication Research, African American Museum of Iowa
—Jin Chang, Faculty of Schooling, Coralville Public Library
— Rajorshi Das, English, PS1
—Michael Davis, Journalism and Mass Communication, Hancher Auditorium
—Priyanka Dubey, Neighborhood and Behavioral Well being, Variety Market
—Keegan Hockett, College of Music, United Method of Johnson and Washington Counties
—María Leonor Marquez Ponce, Spanish & Portuguese, UI Libraries & Particular Collections
—Jennie Sekanics, English, Iowa Metropolis Public Library
With particular because of leaders of this program:
—Jennifer New, IISC Neighborhood Engagement Specialist, UI; Founder, Hypha; and Former Affiliate Director, Obermann Middle for Superior Research
—Rachel Younger, Affiliate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication, and School Fellow, Workplace of Engagement, UI
—Lauren Cox, Assistant Director, Obermann Middle for Superior Research, UI
4:15-6:00pm, Englert Theatre, 2nd ground gallery
10:30-11:30am, Iowa Metropolis Public Library Rooms A, B, and C
11:30am-12:30pm, Iowa Metropolis Public Library Rooms A, B, and C
Interdisciplinary Graduate Schooling: Inspiring Experiments on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Washington College in St. Louis
—Antoinette Burton, Swanlund Endowed Chair Professor, Historical past, and Director UIUC Humanities Analysis Institute
—William Acree, Affiliate Vice Dean of Graduate Schooling and Professor of Spanish, American Tradition Research and Performing Arts and Director, Transdisciplinary Futures, Washington College in St. Louis
In dialog with
—Hyaeweol Choi, Professor, Non secular Research and Gender, Girls’s, & Sexuality Research, UI
—Tom Oates, Professor, American Research and Journalism & Mass Communication, UI
—Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Affiliate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS; Quick Previous President, School Senate, UI
Learn Antoinette Burton’s Thought Piece, “Vocational Coaching”
12:30-1:30pm
1:30-3:00pm, Iowa Metropolis Public Library Rooms A, B, and C
Lunch by yourself
How Has the Mellon Humanities for the Public Good Initiative Remodeled Graduate Schooling on the UI?
—A Roundtable That includes UI School Who Have Used Mini-Grants to Redesign Programs or Designed Engaged, Profession-Enhancing, Justice-Oriented Programs and Humanities Labs
MINI-GRANTS
—Paula Amad, Professor, Cinematic Arts; with Yuquin He, MA candidate in Cinematic Arts
Course: Success in Graduate Research
—Anny Curtius, Professor, French & Italian; with Anna Magavern, MFA in Literary Translation and MA in French and Francophone World Research, and Sokhna Thiaw, PhD candidate in French and Francophone World Research
Programs: Francophone Thought and Slavery, Museums, Memorials and Statues: the US, Europe, and the International South
—Anny Curtius and Roxanna Curto, Professors, French & Italian; with Anna Magavern, MFA in Literary Translation and MA in French and Francophone World Research
Course: Introduction to Graduate Research in French
—Naomi Greyser, Professor, American Research, GWSS, and English
Course: Interdisciplinary Analysis in American Research
—Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Course: Introduction to Graduate Research in Spanish
HUMANITIES LABS
—Nathan Platte, Professor, Music and Cinematic Arts; and Trevor Harvey, Professor, Music; with Rebekah Erdman, PhD candidate in Music
Course: Resonant Historic Ethnography: Musical Communities of Iowa’s Previous and Current
—Erica Prussing, Professor, Anthropology and Native American & Indigenous Research
Course: Ethnographic Area Strategies
—Christine Shea, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics
Course: Sociolinguistics
—Steve Warren, Professor, Historical past and Native American & Indigenous Research; with Petra Lang, PhD candidate in Literacy, Tradition, and Language Schooling, Faculty of Schooling
Course: Engaged Scholarship within the Humanities (Historical past)
—Deborah Whaley, Professor, African American Research and English
Design Reflections
3:00-3:30pm, Iowa Metropolis Public Library Rooms A, B, and C
Celebrating All We’ve Achieved and An Invitation to Be part of an Ongoing Humanities for the Public Good Studying Neighborhood
—Teresa Mangum
William Acree is Affiliate Vice Dean of Graduate Schooling; Professor of Spanish, American Tradition Research, and Performing Arts; and Co-Director of the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures at Washington College, St. Louis. He’s a transdisciplinary scholar whose analysis and educating discover the cultural historical past of Latin America, the enduring impacts of on a regular basis experiences, and the methods cultural items and actions inflect public life, politics, and identities.
See his fascinating collaborative undertaking, Tales That Win, a compilation of political origin tales, tales of neighborhood and nationwide beginnings, heroic tales and product launches that individuals inform and retell.
Antoinette Burton is Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair Professor within the Division of Historical past and Director of the Humanities Analysis Institute on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a feminist historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Britain and its empire whose work brings historical past from under into the self-discipline’s broader field of regard. Her educational coaching and her experience in anti-imperial historical past collectively form her every day engagements with institutional tradition and energy. As Director of HRI, she leads quite a few Mellon grants, together with Humanities With out Partitions, a 16-university consortium that has hosted graduate summer time workshops in profession range for seven years in first Chicago, then Ann Arbor and Minneapolis and has funded multi-institutional analysis collaborations rooted in mutual reciprocity amongst college and graduate scholar researchers and sometimes with neighborhood companions. She additionally directs the Mellon-funded Interseminars Initiative, which helps “collaborative educating, sustained interdisciplinary inquiry, and public- and community-facing analysis within the humanities and humanities.”
Stacy Hartman is an impartial researcher, facilitator, and advisor. Previously the director of the PublicsLab on the Graduate Middle of the Metropolis College of New York, the place she led a $2.265 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Basis, Reworking Doctoral Schooling for the Public Good, she is co-editor of Graduate Schooling for a Thriving Humanities Ecosystem, revealed in November 2023 by the Trendy Language Affiliation.
Alan Liu is Distinguished Professor within the Division of English on the College of California, Santa Barbara. He’s co-founder and -leader of the worldwide 4Humanities.org advocacy initiative in addition to 4Humanities@UCSB. Liu and his colleagues are growing a brand new initiative known as the Middle for Humanities Communication, which would come with coaching packages for graduate college students amongst others in “humanities communication” on the mannequin of the higher established area, curricula, and career of “science communication” and science writing.
Ashley Cheyemi McNeil is a public scholar and humanist with in depth expertise working with cross-disciplinary groups of neighborhood companions, students, and stakeholders to create public-facing tasks that disseminate tales and analysis. She is a former HPG Postdoctoral Fellow and at the moment serves as Director of Schooling and Analysis at Full Spectrum Options.
Laura Perry is Assistant Director for Analysis and Public Engagement on the Middle for the Humanities at Washington College in St. Louis. Her work engages with campus-community partnerships, environmental justice and digital publishing. She helps the humanities heart’s key occasions and initiatives, corresponding to Divided Metropolis, RDE and BECHS, and collaborates with the broader WashU humanities neighborhood to develop programming. She additionally co-organizes the Sumner StudioLab, a community-engaged hub situated at historic Sumner Excessive College that launched in 2022 and is supported by the Mellon Basis in addition to WashU’s Workplace of the Provost. She can also be a former HPG Postdoctoral Fellow.
Katina Rogers is an impartial scholar, editor, and academic advisor, working with establishments to design and implement constructions which might be inventive, sustainable, and equitable. She is the writer of Placing the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and past the Classroom (Duke College Press, 2020) and has served as co-director of the Futures Initiative at CUNY, an incubator that advances fairness and innovation in increased schooling by means of student-centered educating and studying, and promotes reinvestment in increased schooling as a public good; as co-director of the CUNY Humanities Alliance; Director of Applications and Administration of HASTAC; and as an adjunct college member within the GC’s Grasp’s Program in Digital Humanities. She earlier served as managing editor of MLA Commons on the Trendy Language Affiliation’s on-line platform designed to attach members with each other to foster collaboration, enrich dialogue, and facilitate new modes of scholarly publishing.
Kathryn Temple, J.D., Ph.D. is a professor of legislation & humanities and former chair of the Division of English at Georgetown College. Because the PI for the Georgetown Related Lecturers undertaking, funded by the Mellon Basis by means of the MLA , she was the founding director of Georgetown’s Grasp of Arts within the Engaged and Public Humanities. For a few years, she has labored with nontraditional college students in assorted contexts, providing writing workshops, pedagogical consulting, and classroom instruction. She continues this yr for the sixth yr to direct and train in Georgetown’s Warrior Scholar Mission, a program designed to assist navy veterans acculturate to increased schooling and serves on the Board of the group. She publishes broadly in Legislation & Emotion research and most just lately was the co-editor of the Analysis Handbook in Legislation and Emotion (Edward Elgar, 2021) and writer of Loving Justice: Authorized Feelings in William Blackstone’s England (NYU, 2019). Her present e book undertaking is on the worth of emotional ambivalence in life and legislation.
Warmest because of the next co-sponsoring departments and to the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Graduate Faculty, and the Workplace of the Vice President for Analysis for collaborating with us all through our work with the Mellon Basis Humanities for the Public Good Initiative. Thanks, too, to all who’ve served on our advisory board, together with our postdoctoral students and graduate assistants.
Co-sponsoring departments & organizations: Iowa Metropolis Public Library, African American Research, College of Artwork and Artwork Historical past, American Research, Anthropology, Cinematic Arts, Classics, Communication Research, English Division, French and Italian, Gender, Girls’s, and Sexuality Research, College of Music, Historical past, Linguistics, Philosophy, Non secular Research, Spanish and Portuguese
