Building Collectivity through Critical Public Humanities: ASLE 2025 Panel

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

In Meredith Lyn Jeffers’ recent piece on public humanities, she argues that “the time has come to reimagine the humanities as an inherently public enterprise that provides an opportunity for collaborating with and understanding the experiences of others. The time has come to practice the humanities, and not just to study them” (551). Heeding this call, this roundtable brings together scholars and community practitioners who have been engaged with …