Events
Upcoming events
An introduction on how to strategically approach editors with pitches, how to orient your own work within the variety of sites that are publishing today, and the major differences between scholarly and public writing. This is the first workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty […]
A discussion on how your scholarship can be used to illuminate current political and cultural events as well as how those same events can be used in the process of strategic pitching. This is the second workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the […]
Websites such as Aeon, Lapham’s Quarterly, and JSTOR Daily, as well as more traditional journalistic publications from The Atlantic to The New Yorker, often publish narrative pieces that translate scholarship into long-form journalism. This workshop will focus on both the process of pitching and writing such articles. This is the third workshop in the Secrets […]
A practical look at the world of trade publishing—agents, advances, royalties, contracts, marketing, and publicity. This is the fourth workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books. In […]
An overview of how trade book proposals differ from academic ones, with a focus on projects that balance scholarly depth with public appeal. This is the fifth workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding […]
Past events
To protect attendees’ privacy, we do not record panel discussions or Q&A segments where personal information is discussed.
In this workshop designed for artists, writers, and scholars, participants learned the basics of US copyright law and how to navigate the world of creative expression through copyright. It was co-facilitated by intellectual property, media, and entertainment attorneys Nancy Wolff and Charity Gates and was moderated by Gracie Golden of the Artistic Freedom Initiative. Nancy […]
This informal conversation on January 9, 2025 featured Dr. Funmilola Ayeni, a microbiologist who was an IIE Scholar Rescue Fund fellow at Vassar College in 2019-2021 and is now a tenure-track professor. Carly O’Connell of the Scholar Rescue Fund was the host. Dr. Ayeni pursued her undergraduate education at Federal University of Technology in Akure, Nigeria, […]
In this interactive workshop, participants learned how to develop an academic portfolio that showcased their qualifications, research, and teaching experience. The focus was on the essentials-crafting CVs, writing research statements, articulating teaching philosophies, and selecting publications-while aligning their portfolio with hiring committee expectations. To protect participants’ privacy, the workshop was not recorded. A slide deck […]
This informal conversation on November 21, 2024 featured Pedro X. Molina, an editorial cartoonist from Nicaragua. The session was in Spanish. Pedro fled Nicaragua during a crackdown on dissent in 2018. He was a resident of Ithaca City of Asylum in Ithaca, NY, where he taught at Ithaca College, then was an Artist Protection Fund […]
Led by career coach Carol R. Anderson, this workshop demonstrated how to write a targeted, persuasive, evidence-based letter that bridges the gap between a job posting and your resume.