Created by book historians and librarians for all humanities scholars
The independent scholars will no longer be meeting weekly during a weekday but monthly on Saturdays!
The Monthly Saturday Indy Scholars Meet-up will be the 2nd Saturday of the month at 19:00 CET, 18:00 BST, 13:00 EST, 12:00 CST.
Keeping in mind that many locations will be changing soon from Summer times to standard times.
Email us at indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com for the Zoom meeting details.
Looking forward to seeing you this Saturday!
Last week, our very own Marie Léger-St-Jean was a panelist on an extremely interesting roundtable organized by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. The discussions are relevant to independent scholars of all fields.
Thanks to Natalia Tolstopyat for taking the time to record, edit and upload the first episode of the podcast that introduces our community to people “out there.” Listen to her interviewing founding members Marie Léger-St-Jean and Simon Rosenberg on YouTube or below:
We have a lot more topics planned!
Tomorrow, 22 April 2021, we’re having our first thematic weekly meeting, and it’s about setting up a website about who you are as a scholar and/or a professional. Laura Vivanco and Marie Léger-St-Jean have experience to share, and Alison Newman wants to hear what everybody has to say about theirs!
West Coast: 8am-9am
East Coast: 11am-12pm
British Isles: 4-5pm
Central Europe: 5-6pm
Email us at indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com for the Zoom meeting details and/or to join our Slack.
See you tomorrow!
For the next two weeks, North America is closer to Europe than ever: the former have switched to Daylight Saving Time and the latter will only do so in two weeks. We have therefore revised the North American times for our weekly Zoom meet-ups.
Join us if you’d like on Thursdays 18 and 25 March:
West Coast: 9am-10am
East Coast: 12pm-1pm
British Isles: 4-5pm
Central Europe: 5-6pm
Email us at indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com for the Zoom meeting details and/or to join our Slack.
We will return to the previous schedule on Thursday 1st April (seriously!).
See you soon!
The trial period for our weekly Zoom meet-ups is up, and we definitely feel like it’s meeting part of our needs for a sense of community. Laura Vivanco has reenergized the community with her presence, great advice, and need to break out of the isolation despite her long experience as an independent scholar.
So join us if you’d like on Thursdays:
West Coast: 8am-9am
East Coast: 11am-12pm
British Isles: 4-5pm
Central Europe: 5-6pm
Email us at indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com for the Zoom meeting details and/or to join our Slack.
See you next week!
Today, we met up on Zoom for the first time in 2021. Simon Rosenberg is enjoying a 4-week break from his teaching job to work on his scholarship, so he’ll lead weekly Zoom meetings for at least the next two weeks:
West Coast: 8am-9am
East Coast: 11am-12pm
British Isles: 4-5pm
Central Europe: 5-6pm
Email us at indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com for the Zoom meeting details and/or to join our Slack.
See you next week!
Today, Natalia Tolstopyat (top left) interviewed founders Simon Rosenberg (top right) and Marie Léger-St-Jean (bottom) for the first episode of our community’s podcast (which still needs a catchy title). We’ll record a few before releasing them. Stay tuned!
If you’re interested in participating in the community and in the podcast, email us at indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com.
We just had a great meeting with new faces from both sides of the Atlantic talking about their new lives outside of academia and their frustrations with their past academic lives.
Moving forward, podcaster and independent researcher Natalia Tolstopyat presented us with the idea of creating a podcast to introduce our community to the world and emphasize its nurturing nature by giving it a face (or rather a voice). Everyone was very enthusiastic.
She very quickly laid out a plan that goes something like this:
Episode length: 8 – 15 minutes
An approximate plan for the first introductory episodes:
Other topics we brainstormed:
If you’re interested in participating in the community and in the podcast, email us at indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com.
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) is organizing an Early Career Researcher (ECR) Coffeehouse on Wednesday 21 October 2020 to present different career paths and discuss how the organization can support all ECRs.
Independent scholars will be represented by own very Marie Léger-St-Jean.
PDT: 11am–12.30pm
EDT: 2–3.30pm
BST: 7–8.30pm
CEST: 8–9.30pm
You must register to receive the Zoom link.