UW-Green Bay’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is bringing back its Common CAHSS conference on Friday, October 17, 2025 with a focus on survival: one’s ability to live despite life-threatening conditions, to persevere through hopelessness and to manage mental and emotional strain.
This year’s conference, hosted at the UW-Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus, will feature presentations surrounding the theme of survival, such as surviving burnout and thriving with empathy with Alison Jane Martingano, assistant professor, Psychology; writing nonfiction as a form of self-care with Tara DaPra, full teaching professor, Humanities; using emotion management as a survival skill with Ryan Martin, professor and dean, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; and exploring the link between music and emotional resilience with Michelle McQuade Dewhirst, professor, Music.
Included will be the college’s first cohort of public scholars. The scholars and participants will explore how educators sustain learning in challenging times, and how artists, writers and thinkers keep their vision alive in the face of adversity.
“Through its new Public Scholars initiative, CAHSS is implementing a generative and sustainable program of sharing the academic work of the College with the larger community. This conference is the first in-person event that embodies that goal,” said Jennie Young, associate dean of CAHSS. “We’re taking a small, pilot-group approach to putting students, faculty and community members in dialogue with one another, offering a lineup that is cross-curricular in nature while focused on common questions surrounding the conference theme of ‘Survival.’”
The conference will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17, in the Sheboygan Room, at the UW-Green Bay, Sheboygan campus and is free for UW-Green Bay staff, faculty and students to attend.
To learn more about the conference, please visit the Common CAHSS web site to register.