The Center for American Studies would like to invite you to participate in a weekend course with an American native speaker & scholar, professor Troy Spier (Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics at Florida A&M University) titled „Presenting at Conferences & Publishing Research Made Easy”.
There are two skills every scholar needs to master: presenting and publishing.
While presenting at conferences is a verbal skill and publishing relies on writing skills, they are two sides of the same coin: academic communication, i.e., presenting our research to the academic world.
The first part of the course will be dedicated to the most important types of publications and fast & effective methods of writing each of them.
During the second part of the course, you will learn how to speak like a professional scholar at the most prestigious domestic and international conferences.
On top of that, volunteers will be engaged in useful practical exercises!
The course takes place on March 28-29 (Friday-Saturday), 2025. Exact hours are provided below in Rome/Berlin/Prague/Paris/Warsaw time (CET).
Professor Spier will be connecting with us in real-time from the United States via Zoom.
Because the course is led by an open-minded interdisciplinary American scholar – Troy Spier – which is a guarantee of the course being ideal to all academics, regardless of discipline.
Moreover, the course is synchronous. The instructor will make every effort to make the course intuitive and understandable to non-native English speakers. Any doubts and complicated terms will be clarified in real time during the course.
Troy Spier
Prof. Troy Spier is an engaging professor of English and Linguistics at Florida A&M University and Editor-in-Chief of the Arusha Working Papers in African Linguistics. He is an expert in language documentation as well as discourse analytic approaches to intersections of language, power, ideology, and religion.
Prof. Spier holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics, an M.A. in Linguistics from Tulane University, a B.S. Ed. in English/Secondary Education from Kutztown University, an A.A. in general interdisciplinary studies. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Islamic Studies from Dallas International University.
As an interdisciplinary scholar and professor, Spier teaches Communicative Skills, History of the English Language as well as Advanced Grammar & Composition and Academic Writing.
Professor Spier published his scholarship in a variety of academic journals, including Discourse & Society, The Journal of Asian and African Studies, Studies in African Languages and Cultures, Lenguaje, Critical Research on Religion, The Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal, Teaching Anthropology, World Literature Today, and Language.
Every participant of the course will receive a package of free materials for self-study of Academic English.
The course is officially certified.
You will be awarded an official digital certificate signed by the Center for American Studies' President and Director of Academic Affairs. You may then print the certificate at home, use it to apply for various academic positions, or simply post it to your LinkedIn or other professional channels.
The certificate contains the number of training hours and may be used to fulfill your duty of professional development mandated by your bar association, trade chamber, or employer.
For participants registered in the 2nd enrollment pool (until midnight on March 25, 2025), the cost of participation is 129 EUR.
Link for easy electronic & card payments:
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The fee can be also made directly to our bank account in EUR:
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*The condition for participation in a given pool of enrollment is registering and paying the course fee within the specified deadline.
Please send all of your questions to the Course Coordinator, Ms. Rita Tomala at [email protected]
We will be glad to help.
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