The following is a listing of upcoming workshops and conferences for Carleton faculty and staff.

Carleton Workshops and Conferences

New Faculty December Teaching Workshop (December 1-4, 2009)
Contact person: Chico Zimmerman.

Assess We Can! (December 1-3, 2009)
An interactive workshop to help departments and programs develop simple and sustainable assessment plans, contribute to assessing institutional learning outcomes and examine results of recent campus-wide surveys of students, faculty and alumni that are relevant to program and department assessment.
Contact person: Mary Savina.

Looking to Learn: Visual Assignments Across the Curriculum (December 7-9, 2009)

The first Visualizing the Liberal Arts (Viz) workshop will explore the rich possibilities for designing visual arguments, assignments and teaching strategies.  Participants will consider examples of innovative assignments from a variety of disciplines, explore the available support structures, and discuss copyright, assessment, and other questions. In consultation with a project team of faculty colleagues and academic support professionals, each workshop participant will design a visual assignment for a future course.  Please click here for more information.
Contact person: Susan Jaret McKinstry.

Argument & Inquiry Seminars: Course and Assignment Considerations and Design (December 7-9, 2009)
Explore the potential challenges and opportunities of the A and I Seminars. This workshop will address possible approaches, and participants will work on course designs or specific assignments appropriate for these new seminars.
Contact people: Susannah Ottaway and Carol Rutz.

Developing ACE at Carleton (December 10-11, 2009)
This workshop will help you build your skills doing ACE in the classroom and to connect with others with similar interests in and outside of the college. Throughout the workshop we will ask the question of how numbers or quantitative reasoning are relevant to your projects and what kinds of data and information you are working with or wish that you had available for you and your students.
Contact person: Adrienne Falcón.

Exploring Peace Studies at Carleton (April 21 and May 13, 2010)
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the feasibility of developing a program in peace studies at Carleton. The first workshop (Wednesday, April 21, 4:30-7:00 pm) will help begin conversations among interested faculty and prepare the second workshop (Thursday, May 13, 4:30-8:00 pm) with renowned peace scholar and activist Kevin Clements. Professor Clements is the director of the National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand and the current secretary general of the International Peace Research Association. Professor Clements will be visiting Carleton on May 12-14 and will deliver Friday's convocation. 
Contact person: Nader Saiedi.

Non-Carleton Workshops and Conferences

Midwest Faculty Seminar, The Science of Morality (January 14-16, 2010)
What role is there for the empirical sciences in comprehending morality? In the 20th century, questions of morality and humanity‟s capacity for choice have largely been the province of psychologists and philosophers, but recent work in the sciences has interjected new empirical possibilities into research and analysis. Efforts by behavioral psychologists and economists to understand the way the mind works through accounts of quantifiable behavior have found a privileged place in current popular thought about the nature of human choice and preference. Evolutionary biologists offer another approach that places human morality in a much larger context. Neuroscientists and biochemists offer still other species of insight, as well as new sources of experimental data. How have they affected psychological understandings of morality? What place has science had in philosophical accounts of the mind? What new questions and problems have been introduced because of these developments? What are the limits of such scientific account of morality? This seminar will explore the various attempts in the physical sciences to understand morality, and the implications these attempts have on questions that have been central to philosophical inquiry since the Classical era.

Midwest Faculty Seminar, Capitalisms (February 25-27, 2010)
The challenge of the recent economic downturn has given us a new motive for considering capitalism‟s various possible trajectories. How has globalization altered the character of late capitalism? In the 21st century, can “capitalism” still be understood as a singular economic system, or has its global reach produced a multiplicity of capitalist forms? In what way do previous historical events such as the Great Depression offer useful comparisons for the current cultural and economic moment? How do artistic forms like film and music reflect the state of capitalism? This seminar invites perspectives from business, economics, history, the social sciences and the humanities to place modern capitalism in its historical context and to speculate about its future.

Midwest Faculty Seminar, Who Owns Culture? (April 15-17, 2010)
Changing social and technological practices have forced a reevaluation of ownership, fair use and appropriation of artistic and cultural endeavors. How do such questions impact notions of authorship, affect journalistic or academic practice, or change the administration of cultural archives? Which intellectual appropriations should be morally, legally or commercially permitted? Historically, minority groups have been sensitive about the appropriation and commercial exploitation of their cultures, yet cultural products lack protection under current intellectual property law. Is this an injustice, a regulatory oversight, or the lifeblood of a globalized culture? What are the possibilities and pitfalls of extending the logic of ownership to the art, music, rituals, stories, folklore or traditional knowledge of any cultural tradition? The debate extends to such topical questions as restitution, decolonization, and the repatriation of works to their culture of origin and challenges thinkers across the disciplines.

The Grant Training Center, Professional Grant Development Workshop (January 27-29, 2010)
This intensive three-day grant proposal workshop is geared for: 1) those who wish to strengthen their grant writing skills and 2) beginners who wish to acquire and master the techniques of preparing, writing and winning proposals from various funding agencies. The center of attention will be on how to effectively tell the story that leads to funding, be it for the researcher in the sciences and social sciences, educator and non-profit professional.  Participants will learn how to: 1) comprehend the diversity of the grant funding community; 2) research and identify potential funding sources; 3) create the right fit with the funding agency; 4) address the guidelines of proposals; 5) identify and effectively write the key elements of a proposal; 6) integrate each component of the grant into the final product; 7) develop focused and realistic budgets; and 8) package professional grants submissions. Click here for more information or to register.