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Writing to Influence: What Academia Offers in Times of Crisis with Athena Aktipis
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If you had to choose your survival team in the wake of a zombie uprising or some other disaster, would you include an academic? Athena Aktipis is a psychologist and evolutionary biologist who studies cooperation in times of crisis and she also happens to be an expert on the zombie apocalypse. She studies the fundamental tensions between cooperation and conflict, and has done research on social behavior in apocalyptic times, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the aftermath of natural disasters. In this workshop, Athena will talk about her research on cooperation during times of need and she also will discuss how the apocalypse can be an excellent vehicle for communicating with general audiences about human behavior during challenging times. She has a forthcoming book A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A mostly serious guide to our wild times, and she is the producer and host of The Zombified Podcast and her two educational livestream channels: Channel Zed and Cooperation Science Network.
Advanced reading materials:
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Most recent episode of The Zombified Podcast
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General readership article by Athena in Slate
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Academic article on cooperation by Athena in Nature
In close collaboration with Princeton University Press, Princeton Writes, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship, and other partners, this GradFUTURES Learning Cohort will help you hone writing (and other communication) skills in order to connect your ideas with audiences that need to hear them. We’ll cover how to keep your writing clear, interesting, and relevant.
The series will feature online presentations and in-person, hands-on workshops. You’ll hear from nationally-recognized voices in a series of Zoom Lunch & Learns with Princeton University Press authors like Christopher Paul Harris, Jelani Favors, Marybeth Gasman, Joseph C. Ewoodzie, and Tara Dawson-McGuinness, and you’ll also connect with people and resources that will help you move from theory to practice. In the Spring, you’ll have the chance to earn a badge in public writing—while producing public-facing work of your own in a supportive, mentored environment.