Doing Public Humanities

ISBN-13: 9780367500177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Susan Smulyan

Opis

Doing Public Humanities explores the cultural landscape from disruptive events to websites, from tours to exhibits, from after school arts programs to archives, giving readers a wide-ranging look at the interdisciplinary practice of public humanities.

Spis treści

1. The Rise of the Public Humanists  2. What Can Public Art Teach Public Humanities?  3. Teaching Digital Public Humanities with the Public Library: The Lou Costa Collection, the Updike Collection, and the AS220 Collection at the Providence Public Library  4. Preservation’s Expanded Field: The Hacking Heritage Unconference and the Fogarty Funeral  5. Hyperlocal History: Linking People to the Past through Class, Race, and Memory  6. Racial Forgetting and Present History: Remembering Violence in Monuments, Museums, and Markers  7. What Readers Matter? Challenging the Disappearance of the Branch Library in Boston’s Chinese Neighborhood  8. The Rosa Parks House: Doing Public Art and Public History in the Age of Neoliberalism   9. Against Invisibility: Asian American Family Photography and the Public Humanities

O autorze

Susan Smulyan is Professor of American Studies at Brown University, USA, and former Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.