The Future of the PhD in the Humanities conference will be held on May 16-18, 2016 at Carleton University. It is a follow-up to a groundbreaking conference on the same theme that was held last year at McGill University. That conference brought together senior administrators, faculty, students, and graduates from 25 Canadian universities, as well as representatives of a number of related organizations. The challenge it posed was a bold one: to rethink graduate humanities education, to develop new programs, to begin to change the culture of the academy, and to enhance how humanities graduate degrees are viewed outside the academy.

The Ottawa conference has been designed to sharpen and extend the 2015 conversations, in part by shifting the focus to the question of how ideas might be implemented, and to provide delegates with a concrete basis for pursuing these initiatives in their own universities. The hope is that we will gather in Ottawa, not simply to resume important debates, but to report on steps that we have each taken in our own institutions over the past year.

More information available here.