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Public Humanities - Zoe Hope Bulaitis, Jeffrey R. Wilson
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Creating Space: Methods for Intergenerational Engagement
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.42?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: May 2, 2025 00:00
This article explores three projects that responded to community needs using a variety of tools and strategies for community empowerment. The first project grew out of a course that explored how Yonkers’ local history intertwined with the metanarrative of…
Eddie Webster, Public Humanities Madala
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.35?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: May 2, 2025 00:00
This article reflects on the meaning of “public humanities” from the perspective of research and teaching in South Africa today. I reference the ways in which people have remembered the recently deceased Professor Eddie Webster (my first sociology…
A Sustainable Shared Authority: The Future of Rondo’s Past
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.29?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: April 30, 2025 00:00
In the late 1950s, the Minnesota Department of Transportation used eminent domain to clear the path for I-94, displacing over 700 families and 300 businesses in Rondo, a predominantly African-American neighborhood. In the 2010s, Rondo residents and faculty…
How to Design Public Events
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2024.62?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: April 29, 2025 00:00
This essay demonstrates the impact of careful, intentional event design on public humanities programming. In particular, it records the practical and pedagogical methodologies we have developed through a decade of sustained collaboration between a…
A Century of “Close Reading”
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.13?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: April 21, 2025 00:00
Students undertaking a close reading and scholars studying the practice ask the same question: What exactly is “close reading”? While we now associate the phrase with literary critics of the 1930s–1950s, they themselves infrequently invoked it as a term of…
A Crash Course in Directing the Clemente Course in the Humanities
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.28?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: April 21, 2025 00:00
A former academic director and instructor in the Clemente Course in Humanities outlines the arc of this National Humanities Medal-winning program, and the arc of a career with it, discussing key elements involving academic and curricular matters, community…
Climate Futures at Play: Performing Environmental Public Humanities
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2024.69?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: April 15, 2025 00:00
This article considers the role of the public humanities in fostering conversations about climate science and policy through a transdisciplinary performance at the University at Buffalo in New York. The Great Lakes Climate Theatre Initiative is a new…
Traveling Teaching: Off-Campus Student Teaching as Student Learning
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.27?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: April 14, 2025 00:00
This article offers practical advice on how to encourage our own students to deliver dynamic presentations to local high school students as their final course projects. Based on years of experience teaching “The Holocaust in American Literature,” I offer…