April 30 Event Focuses on Public Support of Cultural Life and Creative Pursuits
By Lori Wright, Media Relations
April 25, 2007
How do universities and public arts and humanities organizations build
coalitions that enhance cultural life and creative pursuits? The UNH
Center for New England Culture will explore the topic at a forum, “The
Public Project: Making History in the Middle of Somewhere.”
Part of the Heritage New Hampshire Lecture Series, the event takes
place Monday, April 30. The luncheon begins at 12:15 p.m. with the keynote
address at 12:45 p.m. A panel discussion and conversation starts at
1:30 p.m.
According to David Watters, director of the Center for New England
Culture, public scholarship joins serious intellectual endeavor with
a commitment to public practice and public consequence. It includes
scholarly and creative work jointly planned and carried out by university
and community partners; intellectual work that produces a public good;
artistic, critical, and historical work that contributes to public debates;
and efforts to expand the place of public scholarship in higher education
itself, including the development of new programs and research on the
successes of such efforts.
Keynote speaker Julie Ellison, professor of American culture, English,
and art and design at the University of Michigan, leads Imagining America:
Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of 70 colleges
and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities
and design.
The forum is designed to promote coalitions between higher education
and the public arts and humanities at the state level. It is intended
for UNH faculty, directors of museums, historical societies, and other
cultural organizations to discuss ways to enhance public scholarship
as it sustains cultural life and the creative economy.
RSVP to David Watters at 2-0353 or david.watters@unh.edu
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