Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Two factors motivated the conversation: first, a conviction that scholars committed to the public humanities who are housed in academic departments at universities need to be in conversation with practitioners of the public humanities who have a direct mandate to work with the broader community through humanities councils and, second, the concern that those housed in the university too often lack awareness of the work done in the public humanities by those who work outside it.Although the conversation focused more on methodology and praxis than on theory, an underlying assumption is the centrality of the humanities to self-governance, as James F. Veninga argues in The Humanities and the Civic Imagination (133).Another theoretical presupposition that emerged is the commitment of the public humanities to acknowledge, as
Authors: Ashley Beard-Fosnow, Maryse Jayasuriya, Brandon Johnson, Eric Lupfer, Phoebe Stein, Brian Yothers
Institution: Humanities Texas
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409457314