Adrienne Brown, Associate Professor, Departments of English and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, University of Chicago; Director, Arts + Public Life
Urban Humanities – Global UnConference 2:
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.
In discussing the work of Arts + Public Life, a neighborhood platform for arts and culture on Chicago’s South Side grounded in cultural stewardship and community partnership, this talk will consider how place-based urban engagement can forge new models of knowledge production, make space for process and experimentation, and convene and steward a different kind of public sphere.
About Adrienne Brown
Adrienne Brown is associate professor in the Departments of English and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago and the director of Arts + Public Life, a hub for artistic exploration, expression and exchange that fosters neighborhood vibrancy on Chicago’s South Side. She is co-editor with Valerie Smith of the volume Race and Real Estate (2015) and the author of The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race, winner of the 2018 First Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association, and The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership, published by Stanford University Press in 2024. Registration is required.