Roger Williams University: Co-Lab Convenes Public Humanities Practitioners to Share Research, Stories about Race and Place

(July 23, 2024)

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Engaging with the impact of mass incarceration. Documenting Latino and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) history in Rhode Island. Interpreting slavery at historic sites. These were a few of the many topics that public humanities practitioners discussed at the annual conference hosted by Roger Williams University’s Public Humanities and Arts Collaborative (The Co-Lab) in June.

Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the regional public humanities gathering – (Re)Telling: Crafting New Stories of Race and Place in Southern New England, held at the Providence Public Library in Providence, R.I. – brought together more than 40 organizations, groups, and institutions engaged in the public humanities work of researching, crafting, and sharing stories about race and place in our region.