Lunch & Learn Series
Lunch and Learns 2024
Preparing for...
November 14
When: 12-1 pm
Where: Helen C. White room 7191
Lunch is provided!
What are you preparing for? Whether it's proposals, defenses, prelims, or conferences, if you've got questions about the reality of getting prepared, then we've got answers! Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A on how to get ready for the big milestones in both Comm Arts and English!
Halloween Flash Talks
October 25
When: 12-1 pm
Where: Vilas Hall, Ewbank Room
Lunch is provided!
Join us for a Halloween-themed flash talk session. Learn about the weird, spooky, creepy, spine-tingling, and haunted research your peers are conducting!
The Hidden Curriculum: How to Survive the First Few Years of Grad School
September 26, 2024
When: 1-2 pm
Where: Vilas Hall, room 4013
Lunch is provided!
Join us for a panel of advanced graduate students to discuss topics from building community outside of grad school and achieving work/life balance to figuring out how to find your research or your life and talking to your advisor.
Past Lunch and Learns
February 11, 2022: Lupe Remigio Ortega (English): Oral History, (Auto)Ethnography, and IRB Challenges
Lupe will discuss her dissertation proposal and her challenges with IRB protocols that don’t create space for researching oral history as rhetoric. We’ll offer feedback and ask questions about the proposal to help Lupe prepare for her defense.
March 11, 2022: Erin Gangstad (CommArts): Archival Research: Before, During, and After
What does it actually look like to plan and execute an archival research trip? How do you navigate record use restrictions, vague finding aids, or just the initial outreach to an archivist? And when you’re at the archive, what tools, procedures, and practices can help you make the most of your time? Drawing on her own trials and errors in physical archives from Alaska to the Adirondacks, Erin will discuss how to reach out to an archivist, what to do when you hit roadblocks, and the important questions to ask before you ever step foot through the archive’s door. You’ll also learn about digital tools like text scanning, PDF conversion, and Zotero that can help catalog your records in real time.
April 8, 2022: Kelly Jensen (CommArts): What does community engaged scholarship look like?”
Join Kelly in a discussion that explores what community engaged research can look like for busy graduate students juggling many priorities. Focusing on the possibilities and limitations of community engaged scholarship, Kelly will discuss her own experiences engaging with different communities she interviewed for research projects. Then, she will open up a discussion about how you can apply community engaged research in your own projects. Come ready to share about current/future projects and brainstorm how you can apply community engaged research in your own scholarship.
May 6, 2022: Fiber Arts Circle
Come de-stress during finals with a fiber arts project or two! Bring something you’re working on or come learn how to knit, crochet, or needle felt! This will be a fully in-person event. Meet us in the Living Room Lounge in the IMC on the 3rd floor of Vilas!