Thinking Freely: Will “The Poet” Langford on Public Scholarship
By Will Langford
In this video, Langford envisions a liberating future in the field of public scholarship.
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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
Hundreds Down In Support
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On March of 2013, Cindy Chang published a Los Angeles Times article titled “Hundreds march down in support of immigration reform.” The article partially recounted my family’s attendance in a march led by undocumented peoples…
Community Resilience: Cultivating Solutions Together
By Peter Nguyen
Water continuously flows, never stopping while taking the shape of where it journeys. In understanding resilience, there is this similar notion of adapting, adjusting, overcoming…
Sustaining Engagement and Collaborative Partnerships in Shifting Times
By Marisol Fila
I was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When I was in elementary school, our fourth-grade teacher asked us to narrate our family histories…
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