Events
Upcoming events
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 […]
This workshop will focus on the ways in which public scholars can use the tools of social media, amongst other methods, for promoting their writing and work so as to reach the widest audience. This is the sixth and final workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities […]
Past events
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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.
This hands-on workshop offered tips on identifying and articulating one’s accomplishments and impact in the organizations for which one has worked or volunteered. Attendees learned how to build and sequence the presentation of their accomplishments tailored for each specific opportunity. They also discussed the use and misuse of AI and how to format a resume […]
This informal meetup on October 10, 2024 featued Dieu-Nalio Chery, a freelance photojournalist from Haiti who is now a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He was a Visual Artist in Residence with NYC Artist Safe Haven Residency Program in 2021-2022 and recently completed a fellowship with City of Asylum Detroit. Chery’s work has been published […]
Guided by an interactive worksheet and a customized slide deck, sociologist and university professor Alfred Babo and “joy coach” Kimberly Kenyon helped participants begin to develop a personal statement that captured their strengths, experiences, and aspirations. Dr. Alfred Babo is an alumnus of both the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund and Scholars at Risk and sits […]
In our first informal meetup among displaced scholars, writers, artists, and rights defenders on September 12, 2024, Turkish theater scholar, playwright, director, writer, actor, and author Burcu Yasemin Şeyben shared her experiences leaving Turkey and eventually finding a rewarding situation at a small college in Idaho. Learn more about her at www.burcuseyben.com.