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 event, 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. 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 Journal.

 

You can learn more at our conference site: https://krieger.jhu.edu/macksey-symposium/. 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.

 

 

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) 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

 

Lisa Dougherty

Undergraduate Research Coordinator

Phone: 410-516-5097

To learn more about our programs see:  https://krieger.jhu.edu/ursca/