Notes on the Next University
By Trisha Remetir These days, in between episodes of zoom university, deadlines, and bouts of anxiety from all that 2020 has brought us,…
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
Mitigating Ghostly URLS: Or, What Community Organizing and Database Administration Can Teach Us about the Public and Digital Humanities
By Adrienne Adams The rhetoric of “access” undergirds the logic of professor and college student-created projects on digital platforms like Scalar and Omeka…
Fabrics of Empire: Textile Art as a Counter-history of Colonialism
By Amrut Mishra A chaise longue, wingback armchair, side chair, end table, and an expansive curtain—the stage is set for artist Renée Green’s…
+ Fabrics of Empire: Textile Art as a Counter-history of Colonialism
singing in public
By David Chavannes some publics can’t be public. being public transmuted us into lightning rods. toilets. bruises. punch lines.
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530-297-4640
Email Address:
connect@imaginingamerica.org
Physical Address:
207 3rd Street, Suite 120
Davis, CA 95616
