Urban Humanities – Global UnConference 2: Workshops + Lighting Talks

The Urban Humanities Network convenes its second signature event, the (Un)Conference, a weekend of intellectual collaboration, community building, and shared meals in St. Louis. Though nominally an academic conference, the event experiments with the form, offering a range of place-based workshops and site visits, which will remix the work that you bring to share. This gathering will take the pulse and chart a path for the next generation of urban humanities scholars and practitioners.

This event is hosted by the Engaged City, a Mellon-funded project co-organized by the Center for Humanities, CRE² and the Office for Socially Engaged Practice at WashU.

Lightning-fast talks about innovative projects in the urban humanities: Lightning talks will offer lively glimpses of projects in the urban humanities, including artistic spaces of New York’s SoHo in the 1960s and 70s; fighting evictions and preserving cultural heritage in cities; the audacious live entertainment of Branson, MO; and a dance choreography shaped by Zagreb, Croatia.

Light snacks and a cash bar will be available. Registration is required.