At the risk of revealing what I am doing on a Friday night, I want to just draw everyone attention to these workshops presented by the Office of Graduate Recruitment, Retention and Diversity. I went to the one below today and it was really good. In addition to the good information presented, it was well paced, and informative. For our class purposes, it was also insightful about the presentation of negotiating academic capitalism by two professors and the dean of the Graduate School. I highly recommend these and am going to attend the ones I missed next year; they are all part of the Graduate School courses, listed here.


WORKSHOP ON PRESENTING AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS IN THE ARTS AND
HUMANITIES: FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 4:30-6:30PM
The Graduate School invites you to a Ph.D. Completion Project Workshop on
Presenting at Professional Meetings in the Arts and Humanities in Lecture
Hall 0200, Skinner Hall. Professional presentations in the arts and
humanities require the speaker to know how to convey complex ideas simply
and accessibly; how to correlate length of written paper to time of oral
presentation; how to engage the audience by using principles of effective
communication; and how to leave the audience understanding the significance
of the research and the intended "take home" message. Register online now at
www.training.umd.edu under the category of Graduate School Workshops. Please
contact the Office of Graduate Recruitment, Retention and Diversity at
301-405-4183 or retention@gradschool.umd.edu with questions.