Translating your Humanities Scholarship to Expand Reach and Recognition

About This Event

How would you describe your humanities scholarship to your Dean or Provost, or translate the value of your research to an external funder? What about to people who may be outside the humanities, such as a journalist, podcaster, or even your neighbor? How can you tell your story in ways that matter beyond institutional metrics?

In this workshop for the CNY Humanities Corridor, Anke Finger and Kath Burton will address these questions and provide strategies for humanists to effectively communicate with wider publics. Learn how to talk about your work, explain your process and methods, and make the case for maintaining the humanities as institutional and cultural priorities.

Featured Guests

• The new Center for Humanities Communication (CHC)’s mission is to help recognize, train, and support humanities communicators by developing an open-access, curated digital toolkit of high caliber, user-friendly humanities advocacy and communication resources and materials.
• Anke Finger (University of Connecticut) is Professor of German Studies, Media Studies, and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies.
• Kath Burton (Radically Hopeful) is an expert in publishing and community engagement, focusing on creating and strengthening effective publishing strategies for public scholars, scholarly societies, journals, research institutions, publishing and community organisations.