The 2021 FALL Conference is In-person! |
The New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies is pleased to announce our in-person 2021 Conference. The 2021 Conference theme is "Reunion" to commemorate our coming together again. The conference will take place on October 25, 2021 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester Downtown from 8:30-3:30pm. Stay up to date with conference news on our Facebook page and other social medias.
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Get the conference brochure and files here
About
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The NHCSS annual conference is a branch of the national organization’s conference. The objective of the conference is to provide professional development, collaboration, and connections among social scientists and educators in New Hampshire. The conference features a Keynote speaker and break out sessions hosted by professionals in a variety of fields around the state.
COVID 19We will be following all up-to-date guidance from DHHS and the hotel guidelines. We ask that everyone wear masks and are considering alternative lunch options from past years. We will update this notice when decisions are finalized.
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Workshops and Schedule
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Keynote Speaker
Jaed Coffin
Jaed Coffin is an assistant professor of creative writing (nonfiction/fiction) in the English department and M.F.A. program at the University of New Hampshire. Coffin joined the UNH faculty as a lecturer, in fall 2014. He earned his B.A. in philosophy from Middlebury College and his M.F.A. in fiction from the Stonecoast M.F.A. at University of Southern Maine. His first book, A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants (Da Capo/Perseus 2008), chronicles the summer he spent as a Buddhist monk in his mother's village in central Thailand. His forthcoming book, Roughhouse Friday (from Riverhead/Penguin), is about the year he won the middleweight title of a barroom boxing show in Juneau, Alaska. Coffin has lectured widely at over twenty colleges and universities, where he speaks on topics of multiculturalism, masculinity, and the environment. Prior to coming to UNH, Coffin served as a lecturer at Bowdoin College and as the artist in residence at the Telling Room, a nonprofit storytelling foundation that empowers refugee communities in Maine. He has published over forty articles and essays in a broad range of journals and magazines, and has also served as the Wilson Fellow in Creative Writing at Deerfield Academy, a Resident Fellow at the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska, and the William Sloane Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. In 2015, he was a featured storyteller on the MOTH Radio Hour.
REGISTRATION is OPEN!
To register you can choose to subscribe annually which will result in an annual charge for the conference and membership, or choose to make a one-time payment. Once you pay you will receive a confirmation that will direct you to register for the conference. Students and Retirees should use the coupon code STURET25.
