Past Events
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Mar 21🗣️Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities (MUCH)
Undergraduates from across the Midwest and beyond will gather at UW–Madison to share their work in a day-long celebration of humanities scholarship. The conference features student panels chaired by graduate students, themed faculty panels, and creative writing showcases. Attendance is free and includes catered lunch. Each presenter will give a 10–15 minute talk, with creative …
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Mar 14🧠 Center for Culture History and Environment (CHE) Graduate Symposium
Dr. Sarah Dimick
Pyle Conference Center, Room 213
The Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and the Environment (CHE) invites you to the CHE Graduate Student Symposium 2026. Hosted by CHE’s Graduate Associate Organizing Committee and co‑sponsored by the English Department, this year’s theme, Agency in the Anthropocene, asks participants to consider how agency intersects with the environment. The symposium features talks by …
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Mar 12🌍 Passport to Postgrad: Exploring Graduate School Abroad
Online
Are you interested in attending graduate school outside of the United States? Join this virtual panel featuring UW alumni from humanities and language programs to learn what it takes to pursue graduate studies internationally. Panelists will discuss applying to programs in other countries, identifying funding opportunities, navigating new academic systems, and more. Bring your questions …
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Mar 10🍽️ Lunch and Learn: Associated Students of Madison Panel
Helen C. White, Room 6191
Join leaders from the Associated Students of Madison to learn about the role of student governance in campus decision‑making, key historic victories, and their vision for the future. This session offers an opportunity to hear directly from student leaders about how shared governance works and how students can get involved. This free, in‑person event is …
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Mar 5📚 Forest Imaginaries and Environmental Entanglements: A Conversation between Ainehi Edoro‑Glines and Kirk Sides
Professors Ainehi Edoro‑Glines and Kirk B. Sides
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, 2717 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI 53704
A Room of One’s Own welcomes Professors Ainehi Edoro‑Glines and Kirk B. Sides for a conversation celebrating their newly released academic works. They will discuss Edoro‑Glines’s Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think and Sides’s Environmental Entanglements: African Literature’s Ecological Imaginary. This event offers an engaging look at African literary studies, ecological thought, and the imaginative …
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Feb 20🎓 Humanities Career Fair 2026
Memorial Union
Tailored for humanities undergraduate students, this event will showcase local employers, graduate programs, networking opportunities, and internship and job positions in various industries! Whether or not you’re on the job market, you’ll learn more about career paths that value the skills humanities and language students possess. You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with campus …
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Feb 19🧠Attitudes Toward Generative AI and Writing from Faculty Across the Disciplines – Initial Results From a Cross-Campus Study
Helen C. White, Room 7191
Emily Hall, faculty in our English Department and a member of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program, will share preliminary findings from a campus‑wide study examining faculty attitudes toward generative AI and the teaching of writing across disciplines. This session will open a conversation about how generative AI is shaping writing instruction and classroom …
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Feb 17Online Session: Teach English in Iberia & Latin America🌎
Online
Learn how to use your knowledge of Spain, Latin America, or teaching English to speakers of other languages to launch a career abroad. his online session features panelists who have built their own teaching careers across the region—specifically in Spain and Costa Rica—and who now hire teachers at their institutions. Representatives from UW International Internships …
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Feb 17📘 English: Make a Sticker Book!
Helen C. White, Room 7188
English majors are invited to stop by this drop-in social event to grab a blank mini notebook and fill it with stickers we’ll have available. This is a casual, come-and-go space to relax, get creative, and meet others in the major. This free, in-person event is open to undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff. No registration …
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Feb 15📣 Call for Papers: Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities (MUCH) 2026
Submissions for the 2026 Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities (MUCH) are now open! MUCH is a gleeful rejection of the idea that humanities scholarship is “much ado about nothing,” bringing together undergraduate researchers, writers, and creators from across the Midwest and beyond. Students are invited to submit work from any humanities course—critical or creative. …