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  • Call for Participation to the 2025 IA National Gathering

    By Imagining America

    May 19, 2025

    The Call for Participation to the 2025 IA National Gathering Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want is now open! Read the full call to learn more about proposal formats and submission instructions. Submissions are due June 30, 2025.

  • Apply for PAGE & IA/JGS Fellowships

    By Imagining America

    May 1, 2025

    Imagining America is pleased to announce that our 2025-2026 fellowship programs for graduate and undergraduate students is now open! The PAGE Fellowship applications close on May 31, 2025, and IA/JGS Fellowship applications close on July 15, 2025.

  • An Important Update on the 2025 IA National Gathering

    By Imagining America

    March 5, 2025

    The Impact of Ohio Senate Bill 1 on the University of Cincinnati.

  • Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz

    By Imagining America

    February 4, 2025

    When: Friday, March 7, 2025 12pm to 1:30pmWhere: Humanities 1 Building, 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, California 95064 Imaginging America (IA) is pleased…

  • Against a blue background with pinkish highlights are the following: imagining america logo at the top, below is the logo for the Teaching and Learning circle - which is the letters tlc followed by two intersecting circles in pink and white, below which is the text 'teaching and learning circle'. Below this logo is the text Activate your IA Membership. Underneath that are two circles with hands doing activities - one beading, one cutting paper.

    Activate Your IA Membership Teaching and Learning Circle 

    By Imagining America

    January 22, 2025

    February 25, 2025, 1-2pm PST, Virtual. Please join Imagining America for a Teaching and Learning Circle to learn more about activating your IA membership. This event will highlight a new toolkit developed by IA staff using many of the ideas that members have implemented to energize their campus, engage their IA member benefits, and uplift public scholarship.

  • In the background is a blue-green gradient, which reveals a background of a's is it fades away on the right. On the left bottom is the IA logo (a red 'a'). In the middle is the word 'collaboratories'. The 'o' is represented as a series of gear wheels.

    IA announces six new Collaboratories launching in 2025

    By Imagining America

    January 21, 2025

    Imagining America is proud to announce six new Collaboratories launching in 2025. These compelling proposals responded to the first invitation for IA Collaboratories…

  • Imagining America’s Engaged Art Summit Sparks Connections and Creativity

    By Imagining America

    December 3, 2024

    Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life hosted 20 national student fellows from 17 IA member campuses in Davis, CA for an…

  • Supporting Public Humanities at the Critical Intersections: An Imagining America Manifesto

    By Imagining America

    November 26, 2024

    We are excited to share a recent publication by IA Faculty Director, Erica Kohl-Arenas, from the recently launched journal, Public Humanities. In this research paper and manifesto, Kohl-Arenas proposes five critical ways in which institutions of higher education can better support public humanities.

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