Imagining America

The CALL FOR PARTICIPATION to the 2026 IA National Gathering - Tides of Transition: Restoring Collective Spirit in Troubled Times - is now open! Organized in partnership with the University of California, Davis and a diverse regional Steering Committee, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) invites participants to gather in Davis, California, October 23-25.

Reflecting on the importance of transitions – from political crises to global climate change, and personal identity to organizational transformation – this call for participation invites proposals that share stories, research, creative works, and community practices exploring the complex process of transitioning away from systems of fear and domination and towards restoring collective spirit. (Art by Angelica Sauceda, TANA Archive)

Learn more at: https://conta.cc/4uK9n8L

PLEASE NOTE: IA is engaging in a deep learning process about the harms created by corporate social media and is exploring transitioning off selected platforms by end of this year. We will be reducing the number of posts on selected platforms as we prepare for this transition. We advise our community to sign up for our newsletter (https://conta.cc/4e3ytKn), and to follow us on LinkedIn, for continued access to news from the IA network.

You can also join our next Digital Divestment Roundtable event (Jun 24, 10am PST) to learn more. Register at: https://conta.cc/4e5MnMa

The CALL FOR PARTICIPATION to the 2026 IA National Gathering - Tides of Transition: Restoring Collective Spirit in Troubled Times - is now open! Organized in partnership with the University of California, Davis and a diverse regional Steering Committee, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) invites participants to gather in Davis, California, October 23-25.

Reflecting on the importance of transitions – from political crises to global climate change, and personal identity to organizational transformation – this call for participation invites proposals that share stories, research, creative works, and community practices exploring the complex process of transitioning away from systems of fear and domination and towards restoring collective spirit. (Art by Angelica Sauceda, TANA Archive)

Learn more at: https://conta.cc/4uK9n8L

PLEASE NOTE: IA is engaging in a deep learning process about the harms created by corporate social media and is exploring transitioning off selected platforms in the next 6 months. We will be reducing the number of posts on selected platforms as we prepare for this transition. We advise our community to sign up for our newsletter (https://conta.cc/4vHEQcZ), and to follow us on LinkedIn, for continued access to news from the IA network.

Join us for a DIGITAL DIVESTMENT ROUND TABLE on May 14, 11am PST.

This round table begins a conversation around why we may (or may not) want to migrate away from Big Tech platforms, so that we may imagine and enact a retreat from unethical, oppressive incarnations of these tools toward community-oriented platforms. We invite you to come with your own questions, suggestions for actions, tools, and resources, so that we may establish a community of practice to collectively transition to technologies and platforms that hold privacy, security, and community connection at their core. Register here: https://conta.cc/3QrMA2J

PLEASE NOTE: IA is engaging in a deep learning process about the harms created by corporate social and is exploring transitioning off selected platforms in the next 6 months. We will be reducing the number of posts on selected platforms as we prepare for this transition. We advise our community to sign up for our newsletter (https://conta.cc/4ezoX2d), and to follow us on LinkedIn, for continued access to news from the IA network.