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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Johns Hopkins Macksey Symposium Applications Open
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Dear COEHD Faculty,
I write to inform you of an excellent opportunity for our COEHD Undergraduate Students,
sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. The goal is to engage
Undergraduates in developing and presenting research among a national student population!
The deadline for submitting an Abstract is APRIL 1st, Thursday.
I forward the letter that I received given my work in Undergraduate Research.
All best regards,
Rosalind Horowitz
COEHD Representative
Member, Undergraduate Research Board, UTSA
Received from Johns Hopkins University:
I'm writing to invite your students to apply for Johns Hopkins University's second
annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium. The symposium
was designed to offer students across the country the chance to gather together and
disseminate their humanities research on a national scale. COVID forced us to adapt to a
virtual
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but that in turn was a great success, with 359 participants and more than 10,000 visits to
the conference site to date. This year's event will be virtual as well, held live on
April 24th and 25th, 2021, and our application portal is now
open<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2...;.
The deadline for abstract submissions is April 1st.
This symposium is open to undergraduate students from any two-year or four-year college or
university who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. We hope
to have 400 participants this year. In addition to the multiple panels of student papers
and presentations (including original creative works), we will also have a wonderful
keynote delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional
development panels featuring Johns Hopkins graduate students and faculty and editors from
Johns Hopkins University Press. Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome
to attend. Attendees will also have the opportunity to work with our student editors to
revise their presentation into a journal-length presentation for our journal of
proceedings, the Macksey
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You can learn more at our conference site:
https://krieger.jhu.edu/macksey-symposium/<https://nam11.safelinks.pro...;.
I would also be glad to answer any questions you might have! This is just a one-time
email, but if you would like to receive updates on the symposium, our mailing list is
available at this
link<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2...;.
Thank you so much for forwarding this widely to students, department administrators, and
anywhere you see fit! Please also consider posting or redistributing our flyer (available
at this
link<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2...;)
anywhere it seems helpful. Thank you for helping us build this humanities community!
Best,
Natalie
Natalie Strobach, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Research, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Research Professor, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
Director of the Humanities Collaboratory
Summer Site Director for the Amgen Scholars Program
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street, N703 Wyman Park Bldg. | Baltimore, MD 21218
E-mail: mackseysymposium@jh.edu<mailto:mackseysymposium@jh.edu>
Lisa Dougherty
Undergraduate Research Coordinator
Phone: 410-516-5097
To learn more about our programs see:
https://krieger.jhu.edu/ursca/<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outl...