Forseeable Futures

Foreseeable Futures are a series of position papers drawing from keynote addresses delivered at Imagining America’s annual conferences and addressing debates about the public and democratic dimensions of the humanities, arts, and design and of higher education in general.

  • George Sanchez, The Tangled Web of Diversity and Democracy

    By Imagining America

    November 27, 2004

    ForeseeableFutures #4 Position Papers from Imagining America National Museum, public libraries, high schools, and other community organizations over a period of 10 years….

  • Nancy Cantor, Transforming America: The University as Public Good

    By Imagining America

    November 30, 2003

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

  • Mary Schmidt Campbell, Harlem: Parable of Promise or Peril

    By Imagining America

    November 4, 2002

    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…

  • Democratic Vistas for the Humanities

    By Imagining America

    November 10, 2001

    ForeseeableFutures #1 Position Papers from Imagining America This inaugural number of the Foreseeable Futures series, positionpapers from Imagining America, features Richard J. Franke’s…

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