Support your growth as a writer by attending our campus workshops and events. Click on an event title to learn more and to register.
Note: Between academic semesters, we appreciate your patience as finalize our plans - please check back for updates!
- Mar 22
"Pattern Mapping A Life: The Convergence of Form and Fragmentary Memory," the Gertrude Mann Lecture by Airea D. Matthews
“Whoever managed to survive must have the strength to remember.” …
- Mar 29
"Political Disappointment and Its Transcriptions,” a Lecture by Sara Marcus
The history of the20th century in the United States is a history of political disappointment—of desires for a better political life that outlast the time when they might have been…
- Apr 03
Writing Resource Center Workshop: Using Sources and Research Writing
Learn strategies for effectively finding, assessing, and writing with sources. Recommended for all students taking writing classes, including AIQS, CI, and SAGES courses.
- Apr 05
"Sex in Verse," a Lecture by Anahid Nersessian
How does sex get into a poem? What are the formal techniques, procedures, feints, and fantasies that allow the famously indirect, obscure language of poetry to handle explicit subject…
- Apr 12
Writing Resource Center Workshop: Revision and Reflection
Learn effective strategies for reflecting on and revising your own writing. Especially recommended for AIQS students working on their final Reflective Essay.
- Apr 12
"Disability Poetics Before Disability Poetics?" a Lecture by Travis Chi Wing Lau
This talk puts into conversation contemporary disability theory with eighteenth-century poetry written by and about disabled people to consider how eighteenth-century writing theorized…
- Apr 19
A Conversation with Jill Bialosky
Jill Bialosky's newest volume of poetry Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of five…
- Apr 30
Online SAGES Portfolio Workshop
Have you completed your second University Seminar? If the answer is yes, then you're ready to put together your SAGES Writing Portfolio. …
- May 01
Proposing UGER Communication Intensive Courses
This workshop is for faculty preparing a Communication Intensive course in the UGER. These workshops will be helpful to faculty either converting current courses to the new UGER or creating…