September 13–14, 2019 With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Iowa’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Research, the symposium brought together scholars and higher education…
Read More Humanities Graduate Education for the World’s Work: A Symposium
Friday, May 17, 2019, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PMGerber Lounge, EPB (Room 304) A Humanities for the Public Good Workshop with Bruce Burgett, Professor and Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell,…
Read More How to Stop Giving Graduate Students Bad Advice: A Mentoring Workshop
March 8, 2019 | Iowa City Public Library | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Across the country, leaders of PhD programs in the humanities face a conundrum. How can a department honor the subjects, methods, and practices of their disciplines while…
Read More National Experiments in Career Diversity: Humanities for the Public Good Working Symposium
March 7, 2019 | Gerber Lounge, 3rd floor EPB | 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. | ...with pizza! Across the country, humanities departments are designing more student-centered graduate programs. Many of those programs are re-envisioning the nature of mentoring as a more…
