Arts & Public Life - Engagement as a Form of Knowledge - Urban Humanities (Un)Conference

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 the speaker

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.

To learn more about the UnConference 2, visit https://urbhum.net/.

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. Follow this link to learn more about the Engaged City.