Faculty Participants: Dr. Zarena Aslami
Graduate Student Participants: Cheyenne Symonette & Ariana Costales-Deltoro

Part 1: Conferencing is essential to professionalization in academia, while making your voice heard in your field/ area of specialization. You can network with the major academics as well as with the upcoming scholars at national and international conferences. Conferences help to improve the quality of your research. When you present your work in a panel, you receive feedback and engage in conversations with other scholars, whose research is linked to your own. Moreover, conferences offer opportunities to forge friendships that can lead to future collaborations inside and outside of academia. In this online workshop’s first part we will discuss: how to look for CFPs, how to write an abstract, making connections at conferences, how to write a conference paper, etc.

Part 2: Publishing your scholarship is essential to making yourself marketable in the academic job market. No matter where you are during your graduate student career, it is never too early or late to start taking publication seriously. Yet, the rigors of publication can appear confusing given the challenges of finding a quality journal in your field, as well as the methods one may have to undertake to enter a conversation in a journal or any other publication including edited anthologies. This online workshop’s second part will be about approaches to the publication process. What sets a seminar paper apart from a publishable article? What is peer review? How does one communicate with a journal’s editors? We discuss how aspiring publishing goals can be actualized into professional achievements.