Seven Cautionary Tales for Publicly Engaged Humanities in 2023

Join us for the first Faculty of Arts and Public Humanities Hub Noted Scholar Lecture. This event is held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam peoples and is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts, Public Humanities Hub, and St. John’s College.

This discussion, led by Dr. Antoinette Burton and Dr. Jenny L. Davis with UBC practitioners and scholars of public humanities work, shares lessons learned from the “Humanities Without Walls” project (housed at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and from reciprocal, collaborative partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions and community organizations in the face of institutional impediments embedded in the infrastructures of the predominantly white bureaucratic cultures of the research university in North America.

Dr. Antoinette Burton is Professor of History, Maybelle Leland Swanlund Professor Endowed Chair, and Director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Dr. Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at UIUC, where she is the Director of the American Indian Studies Program.

See full details and speaker bios, and register to attend here: https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event/seven-cautionary-tales-for-publicly-engaged-humanities-in-2023/

Are you a student interested in this event? Then you might like to attend this reading group, which is organized in preparation for the “Seven Cautionary Tales” discussion with Dr. Antoinette Burton and Dr. Jenny L. Davis that will take place November 16. We will be considering the Humanities Without Walls project (Mellon Foundation, housed at the Humanities Research Institute at UIUC), its goals and challenges. A reading list will be sent to you in preparation for this guided discussion.

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