January 29, 2026 | Events
IA Happening: Chair Share with Magical Questions
Join us at Spafford Lake in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Gardens on Friday February 27 to throw paper airplanes, relax in…
January 14, 2026 | Member Stories
Futures of Civic Engagement at Arizona State University
Public scholarship is central across Arizona State University’s (ASU) design aspirations of principled innovation, intellectual fusion, social transformation, and leveraging place. This month’s member spotlight showcase just a few of the projects engaging communities to shape the possible futures of science, technology, and sustainability through arts and civic engagement.
January 12, 2026 | Blog
THE IA CLEARING: RESPONSES FROM THE 2025 IA NATIONAL GATHERING, Part 1
Weaving together lessons from Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sekou Sundiata’s The America Project, The IA Clearing was a special track at the 2025…
January 8, 2026 | Events
2026 Imagining America Gathering Kick-off Event
When: February 4, 4-6pm PSTWhere: International House Davis (10 College Park, Davis, CA 95616) Join us to kick off the 2026 Imagining America…
January 5, 2026 | IA StoryShare 2025
IA Storyshare, Episode 13: Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lynne Elizabeth
For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this first episode of the season, longtime IA participants Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lynne Elizabeth take us down memory lane, and share their insights about the transforming ecology of publicly engaged scholarship.
December 16, 2025 | Events
Pedagogies of Possibility: Dominate, undermine, dismiss
WHEN: Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 7:30PM ET / 6:30PM CT / 5:30PM MT / 4:30PM PTWHERE: Zoom Pedagogies of Possibility (PoP), an IA…
December 16, 2025 | Events
Meet IA: January 2026 Session
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 11AM PT / 12NOON MT / 1PM CT / 2PM ET; VIRTUAL, ON ZOOM. Meet IA sessions are open to everyone and designed to help orient prospective, new, or current members to the IA network.
December 9, 2025 | Member Stories
Community-Engaged Practice at James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU) has a long-standing commitment to community-engaged practice, and fosters opportunities for community and university collaborative engagement. In this month’s member spotlight, we learn about a few initiatives at JMU that advance these goals: the IA Open Forums, the JMU Arts Mobile, and the Community Engagement and Volunteer Center.
