[Vwoolf] Graduate students and Woolf conference

[Barbara Green]

> Dear Julie,

Liz Evans and I are organizing our graduate class this term so that we
can help our students develop conference papers.  At least one member
of our group intends to submit an abstract to the 2015 Woolf
conference.  We'd be delighted if our student has a chance to
experience the Woolf conference, since the community is so
consistently generous toward graduate students.  It would be an
excellent place for her to grow.

Thank you, Julie, for giving us a chance to consider this important
professionalization question.

Best,

Barbara

Barbara Green
Department of English
University of Notre Dame

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> I would like the input of the Woolf community on a few things about the Woolf conference. The website and structure of the conference is beginning to come together, and I've purposely left a few things blank because I don't know how to proceed.
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> Take a look at
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> woolf.bloomu.edu
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> You'll notice I have a separate section for high school and undergraduates. I took the organizational handbook at its word and used the conference as an opportunity to pull university and community together. The deans put in money for this because they (and I) want to make a statement about the importance of the humanities at our institution and in the community.
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> The high school students, community members, and undergraduates will attend events like the theater performance, art opening, and plenaries, but will have sessions and discussion groups in a separate building from the academic conference on Saturday afternoon.
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> The piece I can't figure out is graduate students. Do you feel the conference would be weakened or strengthened if I made a push for faculty to encourage and bring their graduate students? As I see it, the only disadvantage would be that the papers might not be the quality we want (some conferences have been taken over by graduate students).
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> However, there are tremendous advantages. As I talk to faculty about conferences, many of them are under pressure to professionalize their graduate students and would like to include them. From listening to people, I believe we wold attract more professors if we let people know they could also bring their graduate students and have them present. But I don't want to put them in a separate session or area (as the undergraduates are).
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> How do you think I should handle this?
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> Thanks (I have another question), but I'll save that one for next week).
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> Julie
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> Julie Vandivere, Ph.D.
> Professor of English
> 119 Bakeless
> Bloomsburg University
> Bloomsburg, PA 17815
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> jvandive at bloomu.edu
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