Events
Upcoming events
One of the most difficult aspects of displacement is the way it disconnects us from the people, organizations, and causes that meant so much to us back home. How do we stay personally, professionally, and politically engaged when we are no longer physically present? In this panel discussion, writer Danson Kahyana (Uganda), editorial cartoonist Pedro […]
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 […]
Past events
To protect attendees’ privacy, we do not record panel discussions or Q&A segments where personal information is discussed.
In this informal meetup, filmmaker, screenwriter, and scholar Sahraa Karimi, PhD spoke about her path from Iran to Slovakia to Afghanistan to Italy to her current role as a lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Yale University. She was joined by Omaid Sharifi, president of ArtLords, an international collective of Afghan artist-activists (“artivists”). The session […]
Being able to write about your work effectively unlocks opportunities. But it can be a difficult and intimidating process to distill everything you do into a few simple words. Designed for artists, scholars, and creatives of all types, this session covered how to develop language to harvest opportunities, cultivate and grow your network, and connect […]
On March 13, 2025, Carly O’Connell of IIE-SRF moderated an informal conversation with Indigenous scholar and peacebuilder Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram. The session was not recorded to protect the privacy of those who attended. Nepram’s work focuses on deepening democracy and championing women-led peace, security, and disarmament in Manipur, India, and in seven socio Indigenous regions […]
In this session intended for artists, writers, and other creative people, facilitator Kelly Olshan teaches participants to define their objectives, then work through strategic planning techniques such as the SMART Goal-Setting and SWOT Analysis to begin to design the career they desire. Kelly Olshan is a Learning Program Officer for the New York Foundation for […]
On February 13, 2025, Rania Mamoun talked about her life as a displaced Sudanese activist and writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with scholar Nevine Abraham. Their conversation was in Arabic and was not recorded to protect the privacy of those who attended. Rania completed Something Evergreen Called Life, a poetry manuscript written during COVID-19 quarantine, […]