TRaCE Transborder is happy to announce our international, collective, community project— The Humanities Symposium: Reforming the PhD. This project will curate interesting conversations surrounding the state of the PhD today with a view to reforming it for current and future realities. This project is motivated by key questions like
How can we reform the cultures and programs of the humanities PhD lifecycle to meet the needs of students through their degree programs and across multiple sectors of work after graduation?
How can the humanities reclaim its formative role in public discourse in the larger world?
Contributions to this project will come from our partners, collaborators, and graduate student researchers. Essays might be in narrative or discursive form (or even a combination of the two). Ultimately, we will bring these conversations together to holistically rethink and reinvigorate the humanities PhD and the humanities itself.
We warmly invite readers to engage critically and creatively with the symposium and with the works we bring forward. We want to map out strategies for strengthening institutional as well as individual practices that can be cultivated to support the needs of humanities PhD students and graduates.
