Present Your Work at the JHU Undergraduate Macksey Symposium

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:56:52 -0500
conferences, events

Now in its third year, Johns Hopkins University is hosting the virtual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Research Symposium April 8-10, 2022. This is the first conference of its kind: there has been no other national platform for undergraduates in the humanities to share their work.

The Macksey Symposium is designed to provide a development opportunity for students that looks toward their future pursuit of the humanities. The 2022 symposium will feature the following:

A robust national student audience: undergraduate students from any two or four-year college or university who would like to present their original humanities and/or interdisciplinary scholarship or creative work.

Highly rated graduate school application materials workshops.

Panels featuring Johns Hopkins graduate students and faculty as well as JHU Press editors.

A keynote and fireside chat offered by the contemporary poet Elisabet Velasquez, who recently released When We Make It and whose poetry has been featured in TIDAL, NBC, Latina Magazine, and more.

Following the conference, student participants will also have the opportunity to work with our peer editors to revise their presentation into a journal-length publication for our journal of proceedings, the Macksey Journal.

Information about applying to present at the event is available on their website at https://krieger.jhu.edu/macksey-symposium/. The deadline for submitting an application is February 15, 2022. Dr. Oyen is a great resource if you have questions about writing an abstract or submitting an application. Additional information is also available on the attached flyer.

The symposium staff are hosting a Zoom Q&A session with application tips and conference information today, February 9, 1-2pm. Click this link to join the Zoom session [link will launch the Zoom meeting].