Have you been wondering how to connect your learning, teaching, research, and work to meeting society’s complex challenges? You’re not alone! This fall, UMBC will host the national conference of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. Imagining America is a national consortium of colleges, universities, and organizations dedicated to advancing the public and civic purposes of arts, humanities, and design.
From September 30 to October 3, 2015, join faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, community organizers, and artists from all over the country who use scholarly, artistic, social, and entrepreneurial resources to address pressing challenges. As we collectively find new footing in our academic examination of real-world issues, Imagining America provides a source for information and ideas in support of engaged undergraduate and graduate pedagogies, public scholarship, and institutional-change initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity to see what this work is all about and meet scholars from across the nation—and it is happening right in the center of Baltimore City, and on the UMBC campus.
UMBC’s Imagining America planning team, has been leading a conference organizing process that includes Baltimore grassroots organizations, non-profit organizations, and other Imagining America university partners MICA, Morgan, and Towson to ensure sustainable impact beyond 2015. Post-conference organizing is already underway!
Register Here: http://imaginingamerica.org/convenings/2015-national-conference/
For more information email Stephanie Easterday at seasterday@towson.edu or visit http://imaginingamerica.org/.
