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How do the structures of higher education help or hinder efforts to bridge campuses and communities? Why are fields that teach interpretive and "meaning-making" methods so important? How might graduates with bachelor or graduate degrees in the humanities and humanistic social sciences bring the methodological and intellectual insights of their fields into the public sphere in a moment where higher ed and government are pursuing policies of austerity and "applicability" of knowledge? How might researchers in these disciplines respond to diverse local problems in collaboration with their local communities?

Join a panel of speakers who are actively engaging with these questions in their collaborative work as well as their individual scholarship and activism. At two workshops and a panel discussion, we will explore together the possibilities and limits of formal higher education, and the role of academic knowledge and study in contemporary social life. Speakers include Laura Goldblatt, Chris Newfield, Althea Sircar, and Mike Strayer.

This event is co-sponsored by: Educational Studies, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Religious Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Urban Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Russian and German Studies, Psychology, American Studies, Geography, Critical Theory Concentration.