November 5, 2025 | Member Stories

Rooted in Justice, Reaching Out: Publicly Engaged Humanities at Southwestern University

At Southwestern University (SU), community engagement and publicly engaged humanities are not separate initiatives; they are interwoven threads in a broader tapestry of regional care, social justice, and liberal arts education. As a private, Hispanic Serving Institution with Methodist roots and a deep commitment to its core values of encouraging activism in the pursuit of justice and diverse perspectives, SU is reimagining its role in Central Texas through collaborative, justice-oriented scholarship.

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October 28, 2025 | Events / News & Press

Tools for the Undercommons: Speaker Series

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 12 NOON PT / 1PM MT / 2PM CT / 3PM ET; VIRTUAL, ON ZOOM. In this presentation of the IA Collaboratory project ‘Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series,’ Paisley Rekdal (University of Utah) and Hannah Moushabeck (Interlink Publishing) share field-tested tools that maintain alternate centers of gravity within (and outside of) academia.

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October 28, 2025 | Events

Pedagogies of Possibility: Manifesting Alternative Futures

WHEN: Thursday, November 20, 2025, 7:30PM ET / 6:30PM CT / 5:30PM MT / 4:30PM PT; WHERE: Zoom. Pedagogies of Possibility (PoP), an IA Collaboratory, is thrilled to welcome Alix Gerber, Assistant Director of the Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College, as the first PoP Collaboratory Facilitator.

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October 14, 2025 | News & Press

2025-2026 Publicly Active Graduate Student (PAGE) Fellows

Imagining America (IA) is proud to announce the cohort of 2025-2026 PAGE Fellows. PAGE is IA’s network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. PAGE enhances the praxis and pedagogy of public scholarship; fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production.

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