WIDEN (Workshops for Inter-Discipline Exchange and Novelty)

A casual series for graduate students, WIDEN (Workshops for Inter-Discipline Exchange and Novelty) aims to reveal the shared projects and symbiotic insights emerging from the diverse knowledge bases of the university.

Each WIDEN meeting consists of three 10- to 15-minute presentations of research on a common theme by graduate students working in three different disciplines at U of T, followed by a half-hour (or so) of discussion. Breaking down disciplinary walls and creating community among departments, WIDEN gives students the rare chance to present their work to a varied group of peers in a relaxed and friendly setting, while challenging them to explain their ideas to a broad audience.

Call for Participants

WIDEN still has one spot free for each of its first four workshops this year. We invite proposals from all graduate students interested in presenting on:

The Supernatural (October 30, WIDEN's Halloween edition)

Walls (November 9, to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall)

Women (early December, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre)

Colour (mid-January, just to brighten January)

Presentations may consist of original research, or may address how a particular discipline responds to the theme at hand. Proposals need only describe an idea in brief, and announce the discipline and program in which the student is working. All are welcome to contact Jessica Duffin Wolfe (j.wolfe@utoronto.ca) to submit a proposal or to join the mailing list. More detailed announcements about place and time will follow closer to each event.

(Look for WIDEN on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=61225511224&ref=ts)