November 15, 2019
Pugh Hall 210
Imagining America (IA) is a consortium of universities and organizations dedicated to advancing the public and civic purposes of the arts, humanities, and design. UF has been a member institution since 2009. Imagining America supports research, learning, and culture-making platforms where humanists, artists, designers, scholars, students, and community organizers work together on pressing public issues to collaboratively study, imagine, and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
The 2018 Imagining America National Gathering in Chicago (October 19-21) examined the critical problem of mass incarceration. Through a variety of performances, site visits, workshops, lectures, and panel presentations, conference participants engaged in the work of imagining how to end mass incarceration in its varied forms using tools from the cultural disciplines and partnerships between the communities and higher education institutions. Seven delegates from UF/Gainesville attended this year’s conference and shared out on what they learned: Sophia Acord (Humanities Center), Katerie Gladdys (Art + Art History), Alana Jackson (Orthopaedics-Research; Arts in Medicine), Paul Monaghan (Agricultural Education and Communication), Lauren Pearlman (History), Jeff Pufahl (Arts in Medicine), and Mike Spranger (Family, Youth & Community Sciences).
Please join us to learn more about this topic and the resources offered by UF’s membership in Imagining America for students, faculty, staff, administrators, and community organizations. To learn more about the 2018 conference, visit the IA National Gathering web page.
This event was organized by the UF Imagining America Working Group with support from the UF Provost’s Office.