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Public Humanities Writing Workshop for Graduate Students

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Department of Comparative and World Literature, and the European Union Center
Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics building
Date
Sep 5, 2024   12:00 - 1:30 pm  
Speaker
Bécquer Seguín
Contact
Anna Torres-Cacoullos & Eric Calderwood
E-Mail
ait5095@illinois.edu & ecalderw@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Spanish and Portuguese Calendar

A workshop for graduate students, facilitated Prof. Bécquer Seguín (Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, John Hopkins) 

Humanists possess a reservoir of scholarly abilities that prime them for contributing to debates well beyond the academy. This workshop will introduce participants to the basics of writing for broad audiences. We will discuss how to get started in public writing, including the pitching, writing, editing, and publishing processes of newspapers, magazines, and websites. We will also consider the forms of writing that most allow scholars to draw from their academic training: reviews, essays, op-eds, interviews, and profiles. Lastly, we will see how interdisciplinarity, comparativism, and multilingualism can be helpful for public writing of all kinds.

Space is limited; RSVP to Anna Torres-Cacoullos (ait5095@illinois.edu) no later than Aug. 30. 

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