Graduate Colloquium Series
In addition to a number of public lectures that are open to all Brown students as well as to the Providence community, the graduate faculty of the Department convenes a series of colloquia per academic year that are specifically designed to inform and engage our graduate students. The colloquium, which is attended by faculty and graduate students, and moderated by a graduate student from the department, meets on approximately two Friday afternoons a month throughout the year. The colloquium also sponsors “key text” sessions specially designed for incoming graduate students, as well as workshops on professional development, where faculty coach students in “how to” write proposals, abstracts, conference papers, resumes, job letters, etc. Graduate students are required to attend all of the graduate colloquia sessions, for which they receive no academic credit.