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November 8, 2009 | Forseeable Futures

Dr. Michael White, Traditional New Orleans Jazz as a Metaphor for American Life

ForeseeableFutures #9 Position Papers from Imagining America In this essay, originally presented as the keynote address for Imagining America’s 2009 conference in New…

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November 18, 2008 | Forseeable Futures

Judith F. Baca, La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra: Sites of Public Memory

ForeseeableFutures #8 Position Papers from Imagining America “Collaborative art brings a range of people into conversations about their visions for their neighborhoods and…

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November 24, 2007 | Forseeable Futures

James T. Campbell, Navigating the Past: Brown University and the Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally, 1764-65

ForeseeableFutures #7 Position Papers from Imagining America “What happens if we see our past whole?, How might we take full ownership of our…

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November 24, 2006 | Forseeable Futures

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…

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November 22, 2005 | Forseeable Futures

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…

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November 27, 2004 | Forseeable Futures

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….

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November 30, 2003 | Forseeable Futures

Nancy Cantor, Transforming America: The University as Public Good

ForeseeableFutures #3 (with a response by Kristina Valaitis) Position Papers from Imagining America Imagining America’s 2003 conference was hosted by Cantor when she…

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November 4, 2002 | Forseeable Futures

Mary Schmidt Campbell, Harlem: Parable of Promise or Peril

ForeseeableFutures #2 Position Papers from Imagining America Mary Schmidt Campbell’s Essay, is the story of one institution’s successful struggle to make the impossible…

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