Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Collaborative Public Workshop

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Doctoral Certificate in Collaborative Humanities

The program advances forms of inquiry through teaching models and student practices that experiment with group presentations, collaborative online discussions, co-authored seminar papers, and other forms of intellectual partnership.

Collaborative Public Workshop

The Collaborative Public Workshop concludes the capstone seminar of the Doctoral Certificate in Collaborative Humanities. Students develop and workshop a paper over the course of the spring semester while performing a number of diverse academic roles: they nominate and introduce a text to the seminar that was formative for their scholarly development; they serve as first questioners for papers workshopped by others; and they interview one of their peers, and prepare an introduction to their work. By providing training and preparation for roles that are crucial to the practice and fabric of academic life, yet are seldom the object of formal study and reflection, the seminar reimagines the conditions and extended the limits of an interdisciplinary and collaborative research space.

At the Collaborative Public Workshop, students give public presentations of their work in a collegial, interdisciplinary setting that features commentaries by invited faculty respondents.

2025

Organized and moderated by Amanda Anderson and Tamara Chin, and featuring commentaries from scholars Susan Bernstein (Brown University), David L. Eng (University of Pennsylvania), Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia University), and Leela Prasad (Brown University).

2024

Organized and moderated by Amanda Anderson and Shahzad Bashir, and featuring commentaries from scholars Caroline Levine (Cornell University), Uri McMillan (University of California, Los Angeles), Peter Szendy (Brown University), and Alexander Weheliye (Brown University).

2023

Organized and moderated by Amanda Anderson and Shahzad Bashir, and featuring commentaries from scholars Banu Bargu (University of California, Santa Cruz), Adi Ophir (Brown University), Rebecca Schneider (Brown University), and William T.S. Mazzarella (University of Chicago).

2022

Organized and moderated by Amanda Anderson and Shahzad Bashir, and featuring commentaries from scholars Webb Keane (University of Michigan), Mara Mills (New York University), Kevin Quashie (Brown University), and Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown University).

2021

Organized and moderated by Amanda Anderson and Tamara Chin, and featuring commentaries from scholars Faiz Ahmed (Brown University), Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University), Macarena Gómez-Barris (Pratt Institute), and Marc Redfield (Brown University).

2020

Organized and moderated by Timothy Bewes and Brian Meeks, and featuring commentaries from scholars Stephen Best (University of California, Berkeley), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Andre Willis (Brown University), and Patricia Ybarra (Brown University).

2019

Organized and moderated by Amanda Anderson and Tamara Chin, and featuring commentaries from scholars Rosalind Morris (Columbia University), Corey Robin (Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center), Melvin Rogers (Brown University), and Ellen Rooney (Brown University).