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What’s Happening at the Jacobson Center

Check this page regularly to get the latest updates from the Jacobson Center. The center regularly schedules events and shares writing resources and inspiration. We welcome your ideas, too! Email jruseski@smith.edu.

Annette Vee 4/24

Text Generation Technologies and the Future of Writing

Monday April 24, 2023, 5:00pm

Neilson Browsing Room

Reception follows

Jacobson Center Telegram

Issued in early fall and maybe in the winter, too, the Jacobson Center newsletter is aimed at the entire college community of staff, faculty, and students.  Its aim is to update the community on the accomplishments of the Jacobson Center staff, to notify it about upcoming events, to offer news specifically for faculty, and to feature a short perspective on writing or the work of the center. Read the Spring 2023 issue here.

Smith Writes Issue #3

Issue #3 of Smith Writes is live! Smith Writes is an annual publication dedicated to exemplary work by first-year writers in WI courses. The current issue features essays on prison abolitionism, Smithies during WWI, menstrual hygiene in Zimbabwe, and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, among others. The submission deadline for issue #4 of Smith Writes is January 15, 2023.  Students currently taking writing intensive courses can find submission guidelines on the website.  Read Issue #3

New Journalism Concentration

The Jacobson Center is launching a new journalism concentration starting in the fall semester of 2022.

Announcements

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SUBMIT TO SMITH WRITES!
Smith Writes is currently accepting submissions. Review the submission guidelines.

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MEET THE STAFF
To learn more about working with the Jacobson Center please see the About the Jacobson Center webpage. Meet the staff and learn about the center’s services in our “Introduction to the Jacobson Center” video.

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THE JACOBSON CENTER TUTORIAL
Learn about the center’s services and how to schedule an appointment by watching our online scheduling tutorial.

Writers on Writing

“For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.”—Audre Lorde

Featured Writing

Helen Bezuneh ’23 is a Mellon Mays fellow at Smith majoring in Africana studies. Read her article, “It’s Time We Talk About Blackfishing.”

In her essay “Feminism Between Generations,” written for Smith Writes, Grace Huang ’24 reflects on the significance of femininity in her life.

For the class Writing Philosophy for the Public Sphere, Dana Chen ’20 wrote “Decrimininalizing Sex Work Is a Human Rights Issue.”