Date: Friday, April 5, 2019
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm
Location: UC Merced Campus, California Room
Humanities Day is a graduate student conference that showcases the diversity of career pathways available to PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. It is part of a weekend long experience that includes the 6th Annual IH-Grad Con on Saturday, providing students an opportunity to present their own research and projects. Our goal for Humanities Day is to help students become more aware of PhD career pathways outside the academy and to help them become well versed in the skills and traits that will make them more competitive for non-academy jobs.
Humanities Day Schedule
| 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00am | Welcome Address |
| 9:30am | Presentation--The Long and Winding Road: Career Development Challenges for Humanities Graduate Students |
| 10:15am | Break |
| 10:30am | Presentation--Academia and Beyond: Managing a Career in Academia, Consulting, and Running a Non-Profit |
| 11:15am | Presentation--Making Peace from Planada to Brazzaville |
| 12:00pm | Lunch and Networking |
| 1:00pm | Presentation--Exploring and Planning Humanities Careers Using "ImaginePhD" |
| 2:00pm | Presentation--Wicked Problems, Complex Research, Practical Answers: Anthropology at the Cutting Edge |
| 2:45pm | Break |
| 3:00pm | Graduate Student Research Lightning Talks |
| 4:15pm | Closing Remarks |
| 4:30pm | Reception and Networking |
| 5:30pm | Adjourn |
Speaker Information:
Rina Faletti, PhD: Museum Curator, Art History and Municpal Projects
Justin Dunnavant, PhD: PPFP Fellow, Archeologist and Underwater Diver
Niel Tashima, PhD and Ms. Cathleen Crain: Health and Human Services Consulting Firm
Teresa Dillinger, PhD: Graduate Pathways Program Director
Christina Lux, PhD: Center for the Humanities Associate Director
6th Annual IH Grad Con: Contradicting Contradictions: Interrogating Humanities-based Scholar Activism in the Neoliberal University
Humanities Day is part of a weekend long experience that kick's off with a welcome reception on Thursday evening and includes the 6th Annual IH-Grad Con on Saturday, providing students an opportunity to present their own research and projects. The IH Grad Con is hosted by graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group.
6th Annual IH Grad Con Program
Schedule of Weekend Events:
April 4th: Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group
Kick-off Reception, SSM Art Gallery from 4:00 - 6:00pm
Humanities Night, Partisan (downtown Merced) 7:00pm
April 5th: Hosted by the Graduate Division
Humanities Day, California Room from 8:30am - 6:00pm
Open Mic Night, Coffee Bandits (downtown Merced) 7:00pm
April 6th: Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group
IH Grad Con, Granite Pass, from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Keynote, Granite Pass Room 135, from 10:00 - 11:15am
Please contact the Graduate Resource Center for more information or questions about this event at graduateresources@ucmerced.edu
This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Center for Career and Professional Advancement, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group.
