Schedule

Information session: offers an introduction, shares data, explains institutional context,seeks feedback.

“PDS” session: proposes a Problem, suggests some Diagnoses, solicits and shapes Solutions/action items for future collective work

To see full descriptions for each of these sessions please check the Session Information page. 

 

8:30 am 

  • Coffee and pastries

9:00 am

  • Opening Remarks from Antoinette Burton, IPRH Director

9:15-9:45 am 

  • PDS: Academic Freedom (Steinberg/O’brien)
  • PDS Session: University Presses and Public Humanities (Laut/Matheson)
  • Info Session: Communication Strategies for Recruiting Undergraduates (Petersen)

10:00-10:30 am 

  • Info Session: Graduate Education and AIDE report (Molina)
  • PDS: Course Correction? Thinking about Course Development (Johnson and Ritter)
  • Info Session: Advancement at Work for the Humanities (Pomonis)

10:45-11:15 am 

  • Info Session: Revenue Generating Strategies (Crowston)
  • PDS: Rethinking Postgraduate Careers in the Humanities (Mierek/Murison)
  • Info Session: Collaborating for Social Justice North and South of Green (Amos/Hunter)

11:30-noon

  • Info Session: Foundation Relations (Weatherford/Malik)
  • PDS: Public Engagement through the Humanities? (Oberdeck)
  • Info Session: Digital Technology and the Humanities at Illinois (Underwood/Randolph)

Noon-1:15 pm

  • Lunchtime: Working through the Diversity Report — Assata Zerai, Associate Chancellor for Diversity
    Remarks by Professor Zerai followed by breakout discussion groups and then a return to closing remarks

1:30-2:00 pm

  • Info Session: Digital Publishing/Digital Scholarship Services at the Library (

    Swatscheno/Hogenboom)

  • PDS: Humanities Careers on Our Terms (Attig/Wilcox)

2:15-2:45 pm

  • PDS session: Campus Research for Advocating Campus Change? (Chan)
  • PDS Session: Communication Strategies for the Humanities (Murav)
  • PDS: Teaching Humanities outside LAS (Weissman/Rosenthal)

3:00-3:30 pm

  • Info Session: “Illinois Success” (Attig/Wilcox)
  • Info Session: Advocating for the NEH, NEA and Federal/state Support (Haas)
  • Info session: The Current Material Realities of Graduate Students at U.S. Universities (Wood/Correa)

3:45-4:15 pm

  • Info Session: Faculty Recruitment and Retention (Camargo/Hamilton)
  • Info Session: Undergraduate Recruitment/Yield Strategies (McCoskey/Elugbadebo/Koury)
  • PDS Session: Immigration, Undocumented Persons, and Sanctuary (Paik/Guerra)

4:30- 5:30 pm

  • Round up — Humanities + Publics at Illinois? (Higgins/Pinkert)