| GG-293134-23 | Public Programs: Humanities Discussions | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark | Climates of Inequality Discussions | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $498,599.00 | Liz | | Sevcenko | | | | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark | Newark | NJ | 07104-3010 | USA | 2023 | Public History | Humanities Discussions | Public Programs | 498599 | 0 | 498599 | 0 | Implementation
of a discussion series on the history and impact of climate change in
underserved communities across the United States.
Climates of Inequality Discussions will bring together scholars, students, and diverse publics in 8 communities across the country for humanities conversations centering “frontline” communities -- those living in areas historically impacted by environmental destruction, now disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Discussions will explore how local histories of environmental inequality can help us understand the global shape of climate impacts to come; and how local communities who have struggled with environmental degradation over generations have developed resilience strategies from which we all can learn. Grounded in HAL's national public memory project, Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice, COI Discussions bring history to the climate fight in two ways: increasing communities’ knowledge of histories that help guide a path through the climate crisis, and building skills to practice public history as a resiliency strategy. |
| GW-254003-17 | Public Programs: Community Conversations | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark | Facilitating Community Conversations on Crime and Punishment | 9/1/2017 - 6/30/2019 | $310,000.00 | Liz | | Sevcenko | | | | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark | Newark | NJ | 07104-3010 | USA | 2017 | U.S. History | Community Conversations | Public Programs | 310000 | 0 | 310000 | 0 | A
series of community dialogues across the country on the history and impact of
incarceration and policing, centered on a traveling exhibition, a web platform, and
public programs.
The Humanities Action Lab, a consortium of 20 universities working with issue organizations and public spaces, requests funds to facilitate humanities-centered community conversations in 8 communities on the past, present, and future of incarceration and policing. Conversations will build on HAL’s nationally traveling exhibit, States of Incarceration, created by students and people directly affected by incarceration in 20 communities by: 1) bringing the exhibit to each community that created it, as a common experience and catalyst for conversations; 2) supporting community-created companion exhibits that further explore local histories; 3) hosting Mass Stories: public dialogue events that use local storytelling to inspire national creative visioning; and 4) linking local dialogues into national conversation, using the project’s digital media platforms and a Position in the Public Humanities who will travel to each of the communities. |
| LD-234328-16 | Public Programs: Humanities in the Public Square | New School | History of Punishment (WT) | 1/1/2016 - 8/31/2017 | $250,000.00 | Liz | | Sevcenko | | | | New School | New York | NY | 10011-8871 | USA | 2015 | U.S. History | Humanities in the Public Square | Public Programs | 250000 | 0 | 250000 | 0 | Community dialogues across the country on crime and punishment using a community-curated traveling exhibition, a web platform, a series of public programs, and educational resources.
The Humanities Action Lab (HAL) Global Dialogues on Incarceration is a coalition of 20 universities, led by The New School, collaborating to produce a student- and community-curated traveling exhibit, web platform, and series of public dialogues on the history of incarceration. The U.S. incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country in the world and at any other moment in its history; as a result, a massive number of people are involved in its prison system: from inmates and their families to residents of prison towns to consumers of prison-made goods. Intense recent debates from Missouri to Maryland around policing and incarceration demonstrate an urgent need for civil conversations on these issues. The project will focus on bringing historical perspective—how Americans have grappled with these issues in the past—to help people with contrasting experiences and opinions in 7 communities from coast to coast engage in dialogue on these issues today. |