UW Guest Speaker

Join us for lunch and conversation about the skills needed to collaborate across diverse fields and communities.

Co-sponsored by: Center for Global Studies, JSIS, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Urban@UW, Washington Sea Grant, William D. Ruckelshaus Center

Every month, two or more individuals from different backgrounds will share lessons from their collaborative relationship. Such partnerships might include artists collaborating with scientists, researchers collaborating with community members, academics collaborating with practitioners, and researchers collaborating across wide disciplinary divides, such as the sciences and humanities. Speakers will reflect on challenges and opportunities in their collaboration, specific awareness and skills they have developed in order to collaborate, and recommendations for others attempting similar feats. Each event will last two hours. The first hour will consist of a 20-30 minute panel discussion followed by audience Q&A and socializing. The second hour will be an opportunity for students to meet with the panelists and learn from those who are a few steps ahead about how to become collaborative boundary-crossers. We are kicking off the series December 10th with a member of the EarthLab community. We hope to see you there!

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