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Self-Knowledge as a Tool for Humanities PhDs to Combat Career Bias and Achieve Post-Doctoral Career Fulfillment

For two weeks in summer 2019, the Humanities Without Walls consortium held its second national, in-residence summer workshop for doctoral students interested in learning about careers outside of the academy and/or the tenure track system. Through a series of workshops, talks and field trips, participants learned how to leverage their skills and training towards careers in the private sector, the nonprofit world, arts administration, public media and many other fields. WashU’s own Tola Porter, a PhD candidate in Art History & Archaeology, was awarded a spot in the workshop and writes about one of its key topics: values-based career planning.

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Ovid’s ‘Ibis’: Out of Exile

When the ancient Roman poet Ovid was banished to the far corner of the empire, he funneled his righteous indignation into the poem “Ibis.” Classist Thomas Keeline tells the story of the the man, the poem and his attempt to bring them both out of the cold.

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Liquid Borders: Toward a Close Examination of Migratory Issues

At at time when there are more people on the move than ever before — there are 70.8 million displaced people around the world, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees — it’s critical to elevate facts, analyses and an understanding of the historical context of global migration. Latin American Studies program director Mabel Moraña introduces the Liquid Borders/Fronteras Líquidas conference, taking place Oct. 2–4, which will gather interdisciplinary and internationally recognized authorities in the field of migration studies.

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On George Sanchez

George Sanchez has helped shape a new generation of academics who have promoted connections with nonacademic organizations, the focus of his talk in 2019 James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education, “Bridging the Divided City: Preparing Students for a New Los Angeles” (3 pm, Sept. 27). In advance of that event, scholar Mary Ann Dzuback writes about Sanchez’s longtime commitment to preserving the multiethnic and multiracial stories of a community in Los Angeles.

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The human fingerprint maps our identity, the ties that bind us, the lingering traces we leave on this earth. As humanists, we explore the durability as well as the fragility of the human condition — opening windows onto worlds near to home and oceans away, worlds we interpret through stories and images, poems and performance, history and narratives, sounds and silence. At Washington University in St. Louis, the Center for the Humanities facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.

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The War That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Thinking About the Vietnam War as a Civil War

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Visiting Hurst Professor Micheline Aharonian Marcom gives a talk on the craft of fiction writing

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Refuse Lives, Disposable Bodies: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Refuse Lives, Disposable Bodies: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Download the list of humanities center funding opportunities for 2019-20

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