The Public Humanities Skills Workshops is a series of sessions that seek to connect graduate fellows, the Columbia community, and the public with the skills, methods, and strategies to engage in the interdisciplinary field of the Public Humanities. In exploring approaches to public-facing, civically engaged scholarship, we address the critical frameworks and concepts that inform the public humanities alongside skills-training in civic field-work and digital platforms The Fall 2022 session consists of five sessions that cover podcasting, social practice, interviewing, digital archives, and mapping. Workshop sessions, led each week by an innovative practitioner, also explore underlying theories on praxis, intersectionality, decoloniality, and intermedia through targeted readings and discussions.

These workshops are hosted by the Public Humanities Initiative, lead by our Public Humanities Fellows, and open to all. Advanced registration is required.

Our Fall Workshops are now live! Learn more and register by clicking on the links below

Wednesday, Sep 21 | Scholarly Podcasting 101 with Zora's Daughters
Workshop Leaders: Brendane Tynes (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology) and Alyssa James (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology)
Project: Zora's Daughters

Tuesday, Oct 4 | Qualitative Interview Methods
Workshop Leader: Helen Zhao (PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy)
Project: Birthing Publics: Supporting Maternal-Neonatal Health

Wednesday, Oct 19 | Mapping Injustice: experiments in critical cartographies and digital mapping practices
Workshop Leaders: Iuri Bauler Pereira (PhD Candidate, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures) and Luise Malmaceda (PhD Candidate, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures)
Project: Never Again: Dismantling the Monuments of Latin American Dictatorships

Wednesday, Nov 2 | The Art of the Social Practice Arts Incubator
Workshop leader: Ayelet Danielle Aldouby (Doctor of Education Candidate, Art and Art Education)
Project: Voices of multiplicity (VoM) @ Bookmobile

Wednesday, Nov 16 | Website as Archive for the Public Humanities

Workshop Leader: Meg Jianing Zhang (PhD Candidate, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures)
Project: Zip Code Memory Project.