Humanities and Social Sciences Events

Elephant in the Room: Conversation and Action for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Classroom and Beyond

Workshop by: Thomas Segar, IUP's VP for Student Affairs

Come hear the words and music of suffrage-era women: “The March of the Women” by Ethel Smyth and Emmeline Pankhurst, the words of Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and Indiana’s own Jane Leonard and composer Gladys Fisher, along with classical, blues, and jazz selections by courageous women composers of the suffrage era.

The event will feature AAUW and IUP performers including Sarah Mantel, Mary Jo Bowes, AAUW Soirée Coordinators, Gretchen Barbor, Stanley Chepaitis, Lillian Clemons, Evan Engelstad, Mary Logan-Hastings, Patricia Holmes, Julianne Laird, Elary Mede, Carl Rahkonen, Susan Wheatley, and IUP music faculty and students.

A “Suffragist Tea” reception will follow in the Blue Room greeted by AAUW hostess, Charlotte Manges.

A Suffragist Soirée is free and open to the public.

Presented by the American Association of University Women and the IUP Department of Music

Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate. Description: This workshop helps students build the kinds of careful reading skills that are needed to proofread their papers.

The Elephant in the Room: Conversation and Action for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Classroom and Beyond

Start Smart, with IUP's Pres. Commission on Status of Women and AAUW, Indiana County

Audience: Advanced Undergraduate or Graduate. Description: This workshop offers students strategies for effectively writing a literature review, including structuring a literature review, reading strategies, writing strategies, synthesis, and appropriate citation strategies.

Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate. Description. APA 7^th edition was released in October 2019.  This workshop will introduce students to APA documentation style and the changes in the 7^th edition, including how to quote and summarize from an original source.