Imagining America 2018 National Gathering
CHICAGO – Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life and Illinois Humanities are pleased to announce that Imagining America’s 2018 National Gathering…
The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
WE ENVISION
We envision a world of expansive social imagination, constructed by multiple ways of knowing, where people work together to nurture healthy, vibrant, and joyful communities.
OUR MISSION
The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
What We Do
National Gathering
Annual convening of public scholars, artists, designers, students, and cultural organizers addressing today’s pressing issues.
Fellowships
IA fosters vibrant networks of graduate and undergraduate students from our member institutions.
Regional Convenings
Regional events offer opportunities to learn, share, and practice public knowledge making.
Latest Posts
Scott Peters, Changing the Story About Higher Education’s Public Purposes and Work: Land-Grants, Liberty, and the Little Country Theater
ForeseeableFutures #6 Position Papers from Imagining America We are delighted to announce the publication of Foreseeable Futures #6, Scott Peters’ Changing the Story…
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Homeland Insecurities: Teaching and the Intercultural Imagination
ForeseeableFutures #5 Position Papers from Imagining America John Kuo Wei (Jack) Tchen is the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Studies Program and…
+ John Kuo Wei Tchen, Homeland Insecurities: Teaching and the Intercultural Imagination
George Sanchez, The Tangled Web of Diversity and Democracy
ForeseeableFutures #4 Position Papers from Imagining America National Museum, public libraries, high schools, and other community organizations over a period of 10 years.…
+ George Sanchez, The Tangled Web of Diversity and Democracy
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