Humanities Initiative: October Events

Grant-Writing for Graduate Students in the Humanities:

A Panel Discussion

Wed. October 12, 2011

5:30pm

20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

Join us to discuss how to identify grant opportunities and how to prepare a successful proposal for project and research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Speakers include: ProfessorsEmily Martin (Anthropology), Ara Merjian (Italian), Helen Nissenbaum (Media, Culture, and Communication), and Guy Ortolano (History), and doctoral candidates Maggie Popkin (IFA) andReynolds Richter (History). Dean Lauren Benton (Dean for Humanities, FAS) will moderate. This event is co-sponsored by the NYU Humanities Initiative, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the FAS Office of the Dean for Humanities.

RSVPs are required. To reserve your place, please visit: http://bitly.com/grantwriting_panel_nyuhi.

A reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public.

Michael Stoller

The Place of American Libraries Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Wed. October 19, 2011

5:30pm

20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

From the tiny, little-used collections that accompanied the classical curriculum of early 19th century American colleges to the closed-stack libraries that first supported graduate research to the burgeoning open-stack repositories of the Cold War era and the digital gateways of the 21st century,Dr. Michael Stoller (Director of Collections and Research Services, NYU’s Division of Libraries) discusses the ways that academic libraries have grown and evolved to meet the changing needs of this country’s research universities. Stoller took his PhD in medieval history at Columbia University and has written extensively about the importance of collaboration between scholars and librarians in shaping the library of the 21st century.

RSVPs are required. To reserve your place, please visit: http://bitly.com/michael_stoller.

A reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public.