About UsThe spring 2016 MU-UWM Graduate Student Humanities Conference will be the first united conference developed from pre-existing conferences at both Marquette and UWM. It was created with the goal of uniting graduate students in the humanities from across Marquette, UWM, Milwaukee, and the greater Midwest. It is our goal is to bring together emerging scholars to discuss these broad issues in a wider interdisciplinary discussion. We are dedicated to promoting graduate student research, professional development, and collaborative endeavors amongst graduate scholars. We believe graduate students should be leaders in developing the future of interdisciplinary humanities discourses
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Who We Are |
The MU-UWM Graduate Student Humanities Conference is run through a committee of graduate students from Marquette University's English and History departments and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's History and English departments.
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Our History |
The first Marquette University Humanities conference took place in the Spring of 2014 under the leadership of the Marquette History Graduate Student Organization (HGSO) and the Marquette Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS). The second conference occurred in the spring of 2015 and centered on the theme of "Oddities in the Humanities" and featured a keynote address by Dr. Jennifer Hockenbery. The Alliance of History Graduate Students (AHGS) at UW-Milwaukee has also organized and hosted in 2012 and 2013 the AHGS hosted the Midwest Labor and Working Class History (MLWCH) Graduate Student Colloquium and in 2014 the AHGS hosted its first independent, interdisciplinary graduate student conference on the theme “Racial Formation, Racial Blindness.”
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