Public Writing For Academics w/ Hua Hsu and Oliver Wang (Room A: Sky Church)With support from
Critical Minded, the Pop Convergence is expanding our mentorship offerings with seven hour-long sessions designed to assist up-and-coming music writers from underrepresented and marginalized communities.
All sessions are now filled for direct participants but this is a public session that audience members are allowed into.Session Description: The goal of this session is to discuss ways in which academics and scholars can seek opportunities to bring their expertise to a wider, public audience. Especially in a time of rampant misinformation and anti-intellectualism, informed voices are more important than ever but it's not always easy to bridge scholarly expertise over to general audiences without making a concerted attempt at writing with greater legibility and understanding what venues would be most open to having academics contribute essays, op-eds, etc. Both speakers have spent their professional lives split between academia and journalism and will be offering suggestions on how to navigate between those spheres.
