Leading academic organizations like the Association of American Universities, the Modern Language Association, and Imagining America believe the enormous talents and exciting discoveries of humanities scholars deserve a larger scope. This symposium featured publicly engaged humanities scholars who linked carrels and classrooms to local and global communities. Their platforms range from the book, theatre, and museum to virtual global networks. With the help of diverse audiences and public partners, these scholars are building bridges to the future with time-honored techniques, innovative collaborations, and cutting-edge technology.
Conference Co-sponsors: Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, United Way of Johnson County, Prairie Lights Bookstore, and University of Iowa units and departments: Faculty Senate, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UI Libraries, UI Press, Center for Teaching, Division of Performing Arts, International Writing Program, The Writer’s Workshop, Nonfiction Writing Program, Center for the Book, American Studies, English, French and Italian, German, History, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Art and Art History, Theatre Arts
Graphic: Computer design by students of the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (1987).
>> Annotated Schedule with Participant Bios
In collaboration with the Iowa City Public Library “Intellectual Freedom Festival”
7:00-9:00 p.m. Iowa City Public Library, Room A
Co-sponsors: The International Writing Program, UI Libraries, the UI Press, The UI Center for the Book, The Department of History, The Department of English
The Digital Public Sphere:
A Panel Discussion on Books in the Age of New Media
Scott McLemee, Essayist at Large, Inside Higher Ed
http://mclemee.com/Christopher Merrill, Professor of English and Director of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa “Reviewing Book for PRI’s The World”
http://www.theworld.org/books/Meena Kandasamy, author, translator, and participant in the 2009 International Writing Program “Meena Kandasamy: A blog by a 24-year-old tamil woman obsessed with dr. ambedkar’s dream of caste annihilation”
http://meenu.wordpress.com/
SESSION 1 9:00-10:45 MAKING HISTORIES
International Programs Commons Room 1117, Old Capitol Center
Matthew J. Countryman, Associate Professor of History and American Culture and Director of Arts of Citizenship, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor "Public Humanities and the Research University in a Time/Place of Crisis"
Sean Takats, Director of Research Projects at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and Assistant Professor of History, George Mason University “Beyond Digitization: The New Practices of Historical Scholarship”
SESSION 2 11-12:30 BRIDGING DISTANCES
International Programs Commons Room 1117, Old Capitol Center
Barbara Eckstein, English and Associate Provost, and Chris Vinsonhaler, Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Iowa, “"Festival for an Endangered River"
Julie Ellison, Professor of American Culture, English, and Art and Design, University of Michigan "Isithunzi, shadow, or taint": Small Publics and the Writing-Centered Project between Johannesburg and Detroit"
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
SESSION 3 3:00-4:30 STAGING THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES
International Programs Commons Room 1117, Old Capitol Center
Marica S. Tacconi, Professor of Musicology and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University “Teaching, Research, and Public Engagement Beyond Disciplinary and Institutional Divides: Penn State’s “Moments of Change” Initiative as a Model of Academic Integration”
Anne Davis Basting, Director of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee's Center on Age and Community, and Associate Professor of Theatre in the Peck School of the Arts “Performing Collaboration: Staggering Tales from the Planning Stages of a Site-Specific Performance in a Nursing Home”
Friday, Oct 16 5:00-6:30 RECEPTION AT THE HEARTH
(UPSTAIRS AT ONE-TWENTY-SIX)
SESSION 4 8:00 HOME GROWN: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PUBLIC ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS Becker Auditorium 101
Hosted by the University of Iowa Faculty Senate
Moderator: David Drake, President of the UI Faculty Senate and Professor of Microbiology, College of Dentistry
Linda Bolton, Associate Professor of English, CLAS
“Making Monument”Carolyn Colvin, Associate Professor, Language, Literacy and Culture Program, College of Education
“Literacy and Citizenship for Immigrant Adults in Rural Iowa”
Ed Folsom, Carver Professor of English, CLAS
“The Walt Whitman Archive”Marshall Poe, Associate Professor of History, CLAS
“New Books in History”Rachel Williams, Associate Professor of the School of Art and Art History, CLAS and of Art Education, College of Education
“"WeCan: Women's Educational Cooperative Arts Network"”
SESSION 5 9:00-10:30 BRIDGING DIFFERENCES
Becker Auditorium 101
Teresa Mangum, Associate Professor of English and International Programs, University of Iowa and Associate Director of the Dickens Universe “Doing Dickens in Different Voices: Intergenerational Audiences and the Dickens Project”
George Sanchez, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity an History, University of Southern California “Bringing Community Democracy Back Home: Aliens, Citizens, and Boylan Heights”
SESSION 6: 11:00-12:30 BEYOND THE METROPOLE
Becker Auditorium 101
Julie Sze, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of California-Davis “Stories from the Field: Environmental Justice and the Humanities”
Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Vanderbilt University “Voices from Our America: Learning from Listening, One Community at a Time”
SESSION 7: 2:00-3:30 VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Becker Auditorium 101
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English and Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington-Seattle “Sound Tracks: Public Scholarship and the Intellectual Wealth of Digital Networks”
Timothy Lenoir, Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society, Duke University “Emergence: A Massively Multiplayer Online Game Environment for Building Cultural Diplomacy “
SESSION 8: 4:00-5:00 Closing Roundtable Discussion
Becker Auditorium 101
Counting On and Counting Up the Impact of the Public Humanities:
Tenure, Promotion, and Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Teaching
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