From the Office of Career Planning & Professional Development
Please join us for a day of workshops and discussions around careers for PhDs and MAs in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. This event is part of our project, The New PhD: A Renaissance of Public Engagement, of our Graduate Center funded as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Next Generation PhD initiative.
Please register to attend here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nDYbgZICa2dd29XSsWnTJetXCA3-AAQQ29fC4sF3hng/viewform?edit_requested=true
Below is the tentative schedule; we would encourage you to save the date and plan to attend.
Post Grad (Center): Engaging Publics with a PhD
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 9:30-6:00 p.m.
Full schedule
9:30-10:30 Registration and Conversation, Segal Theatre
10:30-11:30 panel “Why the Humanities?”, Segal Theatre
Welcome and intro: Cyrus Amir-Mokri, PhD and JD (Chicago), General Counsel, JP Morgan Chase
Rebecca Amato, PhD History, associate director, Civic Engagement Initiatives and the Urban Democracy Lab, Gallatin at New York University
Bennett Graff, PhD English, Publisher, Music and Dance Collections at Alexander Street
Lindsay Krasnoff, PhD History, communications consultant and author of The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010
Karen Lemmey, PhD Art History, curator of sculpture at Smithsonian Institution
Stacy Hartman, Project Director, Connected Academics, Modern Language Association (moderator)
11:45-1:00: Lunch and Keynote Talk, Segal Theatre
Fatimah Williams-Castro on Making Connections
Alumni Breakout Session 1, C Level
Communicating (1:00-2:15)
Laila Pedro, French PhD, Editor, Brooklyn Rail
Peter Taback, English PhD, Vice President, Communications, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Lindsay Green Barber, Political Science PhD, Center for Investigative Reporting and former ACLS Public Fellow
Mike Pino, PhD English, GE Digital Strategy (via Skype)
Making and Supporting Tools (1:00-2:15)
Red Wierenga PhD Music, Creator Support Manager, Roli
Salas Sanchez-Bennasar, PhD Philosophy, Software Developer at DigitalGlobe (via Skype)
Lisa Rhody, PhD English, Deputy Director, Digital Initiatives, Graduate Center
Alumni Breakout Session 2, C Level
Creating Content (2:30-3:45)
Johanna Gorelick, PhD Anthropology, Manager, Education Services at Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Elizabeth Cronin, Art History PhD, NYPL Assistant Curator
Glenn Olson and Rebecca Burnstein, PhD History, IXL learning (via Skype)
Building Programs, Research, and Advocacy (2:30-3:45)
Brooke Bryant, PhD Music, Director of Development at Kaufman Music Center
Michael Partis, PhD Anthropology, Young Movement
Amy Starecheski, PhD Anthropology, Co-Director, Columbia Oral History MA Program
Effie MacLachlan, PhD Political Science, Director of Grants & Research Programs, CUNY Office of Research
4:00-4:45: Final Thoughts, Jason Pedicone, President, Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, Inc.
C Level
4:45-6:00 Reception
Segal Theatre