As I write, I’ve just returned from the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a vibrant interdisciplinary conference of 900. I’ve attended that meeting for nearly 25 ...

When I attended my first major academic conference as a graduate student, I made myself somewhat notorious within my grad program. While in the audience at a presentation, I leaned over to a friend, ...

It’s conference season, and that means we will soon be suffering together in some drab meeting room. The minutes will tick by as an earnest scholar reads — word for excruciating word — a jargon-filled ...

To strengthen African representation in global development scholarship and ensure African scholars' voices contribute to key exchanges shaping the continent’s future, the United Nations Office of the ...

Scholars around the world share their latest research findings with a decidedly low-tech ritual: printing a 48-inch by 36-inch poster densely packed with charts and graphs, and accompanied by blocks ...

Networking is an important part of your job search preparation, whether you are staying in academia or transitioning to industry, and the main way that graduate students add new, external contacts to ...

Katherine Shives is a PhD candidate in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. During her free time she writes about microbiology-related topics at microbematters.org, kdshives.com, and on Twitter ...

The Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies supports a collaborative model of research: one that brings together scholars and policymakers to examine and discuss new approaches to the study of ...