• Meet IA: May 2026 Session

    By Anuj Vaidya

    April 24, 2026

    When: Thursday May 21, 10am PT / 11am MT / 12noon CT / 1pm ETWhere: Virtual, on zoom Join Imagining America for this…

  • Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 2

    By Anuj Vaidya

    March 29, 2026

    This IA Collaboratory is organized by professors Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona), and each virtual event features two guest speakers in a salon-style conversation with attendees. This month’s event features speakers Ana María Álvarez, Associate Professor, Theater & Dance, UC San Diego, and Founding Artistic Director, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, and SA Smythe, Associate Professor, Black Studies & the Archive, and Director of the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, University of Toronto.

  • Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 1

    By Anuj Vaidya

    March 28, 2026

    This IA Collaboratory is organized by professors Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona), and each virtual event features two guest speakers in a salon-style conversation with attendees. This month’s event features speakers Romi Ron Morrison, an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator at UCLA Design Media Arts, and Sarah Biscarra Dilley, a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.

  • IA Happening: Chair Share with Magical Questions

    By Imagining America

    January 29, 2026

    Join us at Spafford Lake in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Gardens on Friday February 27 to throw paper airplanes, relax in…

  • 2026 Imagining America Gathering Kick-off Event

    By Imagining America

    January 8, 2026

    When: February 4, 4-6pm PSTWhere: International House Davis (10 College Park, Davis, CA 95616) Join us to kick off the 2026 Imagining America…

  • Pedagogies of Possibility: Dominate, undermine, dismiss

    By Imagining America

    December 16, 2025

    WHEN: Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 7:30PM ET / 6:30PM CT / 5:30PM MT / 4:30PM PTWHERE: Zoom Pedagogies of Possibility (PoP), an IA…

  • Meet IA: January 2026 Session

    By Imagining America

    December 16, 2025

    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.

  • Tools for the Undercommons: Speaker Series

    By Imagining America

    October 28, 2025

    WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 12 NOON PT / 1PM MT / 2PM CT / 3PM ET; VIRTUAL, ON ZOOM. In this presentation of the IA Collaboratory project ‘Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series,’ Paisley Rekdal (University of Utah) and Hannah Moushabeck (Interlink Publishing) share field-tested tools that maintain alternate centers of gravity within (and outside of) academia.