Please click on the names below to see read a short abstract / position statement based on each presentation.
Susan Smulyan (Brown University)
“What Can Public Art Teach the Public Humanities?”
“Consequences of Academic Reading? Teachers Training, the German Public High School System, and Tom Franklin”
Gary T. Edwards (Arkansas State University)
“Local Historic Knowledge Production and ‘The Public’ in Jonesboro, Arkansas: An Academic’s Encounter with Contemporary Community Theatre and A Historic Community Lynching”
“Engaged or Enraged? On the Disparate Acceptance of the Scholar-Activist Mode in U.S. and German American Studies”
Antje Kley (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
“The Public Humanities and Literary Knowledge”
Briann G. Greenfield (New Jersey Council for the Humanities)
“‘Democracy Demands Wisdom’: The Role of State Humanities Councils in the American Model”