Workshops
The Rackham Graduate School sponsors an ongoing program of interdisciplinary workshops, which is overseen by Associate Dean Arthur Verhoogt. This program has two goals. First, it is designed to encourage exchange and collaboration among graduate students, faculty, postdocs, and staff who share intellectual interests but do not necessarily have an easily available forum in common because they have different academic affiliations. Second, it is designed to help advanced doctoral students form working groups that support the development of research projects and dissertation-writing.
Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops (RIWs) are designed to encourage the exchange of ideas and collaboration among students and faculty who share intellectual interests but come from different academic affiliations. Additionally, RIWs are designed to help advanced doctoral students form working groups that support the development of research projects and dissertation-writing. The active workshops for the 2018-19 academic year are listed below with links to their unique websites.
- Alamanya: Transnational German Studies
- American Institutions Group
- American Politics (IWAP)
- American Studies Consortium 2017
- ArtEco (Art and the Environment)
- Assocation of Multicultural Scientists (AMS) - Workshops and Retreat
- Autotheory
- Balkan Studies
- Black Research Roundtable
- Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar
- Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory
- Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup
- Comparative Politics
- Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop (CSAAW)
- Conflict and Peace, Research and Development
- Connections and Divisions: Whose University Is It Anyway?
- Critical Contemporary Studies
- Critical Ethnic and Asian Pacific Islander American Studies
- Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies
- Data Analysis Networking Group (DANG)
- Decolonizing Pedagogies
- Distanced but Connected: Academia and Comminity in the Time of COVID
- Early Modern Colloquium
- Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy (ESPA)
- Environmental History Interest Group
- Eurasia Collective
- European History
- Exploring Historical Legacies and Memory
- Global Education Discussion Group
- Health, History, Demography, and Development (H2D2)
- Hong Kong Studies: Hong Kong as "Method"
- Islamic Studies Seminar 2019
- JSIC 2020-21
- Language and Rhetorical Studies Group
- Latinx Studies Workshop
- Law and Society
- Literary Translation
- LSI Trainees - The Future of Science
- Marxisms Collective
- Media Studies Research Workshop
- Michigan - Earth Science Women's Networks (M-ESWN)
- Michigan University-Wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Workshop
- Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Student Organization
- Migration & Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop
- Mind & Moral Psychology Working Group (MMP)
- MiSciWriters
- Modernist Studies Workshop
- Multidisciplinary Workshop for Armenian Studies (MWAS) 100716
- Native American and Indigneous Studies Interest Group (NAISIG)
- Palestine and Israel: Destabilizing Discourses
- Persianate Studies Workshop
- Planning and Architecture Research Group (P+ARG)
- Poetry & Poetics Workshop
- Political Communication Working Group
- Psychedelic Neuroscience & Therapy
- Race, Gender, and Feminist Philosophy Working Group
- RELATE
- Rethinking Decolonization
- Roman Republic Reading Group
- Rural America
- Science & Policy Initiative for Research Engagement - InSPIRE
- Science And Technology
- Social Science Methodology
- Southeast Asian Studies
- Teaching & Learning in the Humanities
- The Circulo Micaela Bastidas Phuyuqawa
- The Nineteeth Century Forum
- Topics in Classical Intersectionalities
- Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Racism & Health Inequalities (RacismLab)
- Translational Neural Engineering
- Understanding media in Chinese studies
- University of Michigan Ancient Philosophy Working Group
- Using SFL to Question and Challenge
- Visual Culture Workshop
- Women of Color & The Academy: Exploring Race, Research, Representation
- Workshop for Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Workshop for Integrating and Discussing Topics in Healthcare
- Writing Romance Studies