The Philosophers' Cocoon

Beyond the Ivory Tower applications open

This is just a quick note that the Beyond the Ivory Tower writing workshops on public-facing academic work have opened applications for their next workshop this March. I participated in one of the Workshops this past September and recommend it very highly!

Here's more from the email they sent out:

Our next workshop will be held March 10th and 11th, 2023, and will be open to applicants who apply by December 1st. Apply here. 

It will be taught by James Ryerson, a senior opinion editor at the New York Times. 

Selected attendees will receive two days of training and a $2,000 stipend to offset travel and lodging costs, as well as ongoing access to our alumni community and support network through 2026. You'll leave with a carefully workshopped "ideas" piece, ripe for pitching. 

You can find more information here. You can learn more about our work by watching these masterclass videos and checking out this podcast about popular writing.

Beyond the Ivory Tower Workshops

I just returned home yesterday from a wonderful time in Boston for the Beyond the Ivory Tower Workshop. For those of you who may not have heard of them before, the workshops are held several times per year, and participants are guided over the course of several days on how to 'Learn to write short pieces, for wide audiences, about the big questions.'

The Workshop Team was spectacularly helpful and supportive, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Participants ranged from philosophers to psychologists, physicists, and biological anthropologists, and it was cool to learn about their work and share work with them in turn.

Finally, the Workshops are fully funded, so if you have any interest in doing public-facing work, you may apply here!