Villanova English majors are invited to apply for Johns Hopkins University’s second annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium.
The symposium was designed to offer students across the country the chance to gather together and disseminate their humanities research on a national scale. Due to COVID, last year's symposium was a virtual event, with 359 participants and more than 10,000 visits to the conference site to date. This year’s event will be virtual as well, held live on April 24 and 25, 2021. The conference application portal is now open.
This symposium is open to undergraduate students from any two-year or four-year college or university who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. The organizers hope to have 400 participants this year.
In addition to the multiple panels of student papers and presentations (including original creative works), there will be e a keynote speech delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional development panels featuring Johns Hopkins graduate students and faculty and editors from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome to attend. Attendees will also have the opportunity to work with our student editors to revise their presentation into a journal-length presentation for our journal of proceedings, the Macksey Journal.
You can learn more about the event at the conference site.
