WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2018 4-6:50PM

Conference Presentations

Laura Scudder Conference Room, Roosevelt Hall 121

Making an effective conference presentation is an important step in the education of every graduate student. Presenting at conferences is important for successful networking, getting out the word about your work, and building a professional reputation. Yet we spend very little time in graduate school assessing and perfecting conference presentation techniques. This workshop will discuss ways to mentally approach giving a presentation, explore a variety of techniques to crafting an effective presentation, the pitfalls and possibilities of PowerPoint, and discovering a presentation persona that matches your personality.

Jennifer Keene, Professor, Chair, Department of History

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Jennifer D. Keene is a specialist in American military experience during World War I.  She is currently President of the Society of Military History. She has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001), World War I: The American Soldier Experience (2011), and The United States and the First World War (2000).  She is also the lead author for an American history textbook, Visions of America: A History of the United States that uses a visual approach to teaching students U.S. history. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, including Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to France and Australia and Mellon Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies.  She served as an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of War and American Society (2005) which won the Society of Military History's prize for best military history reference book.  She co-edited, along with Michael Neiberg of Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies (2011).  In 2011 she won the Jack Miller Center Prize for the best military or diplomatic history essay published in Historically Speaking.  She has published numerous essays and journal articles on the war, served as an historical consultant for exhibits and films, and as an associate editor of the Journal of First World War Studies. She is currently working on several projects related to the upcoming centennial of World War I, including a book on African American soldiers and a new synthesis of the American experience during the war under contract with Oxford University Press. She is also a general editor for the “1914-1918-online,” peer-reviewed online encyclopedia, http://www.1914-1918-online.net/, a major digital humanities project.