Geography and Justice in the Public Humanities

FAIN: EH-293722-23

Northeastern University (Boston, MA 02115-5005)
Liza Weinstein (Project Director: February 2023 to present)
Mario Hernandez (Co Project Director: February 2023 to present)
Angel David Nieves (Co Project Director: February 2023 to present)

A two-week residential institute for 25 college and university faculty exploring intersections of geography and social justice in public-facing humanities scholarship.

This summer institute will bring together 25 faculty members from institutions of higher education to explore the possibilities and productive tensions at the intersection of geography and the humanities. Using the city of Boston as a touchstone, the lectures, discussions, site visits, and methodological workshops will explore how geographic concepts and spatial methods can enhance humanistic inquiry and how participants can more fully engage with space and place in their own work. The institute welcomes emerging and established scholars who have not yet used spatial concepts and methods in their work, and as well as those seeking to strengthen existing spatial engagements. The institute will facilitate reflection on how spatial ideas can support the work of public humanities to engage diverse publics in the humanistic inquiry and praxis and expand social and racial justice, equity, and accessibility.