SUNY Digital Learning Conference:
March 12, 2025 – March 13, 2025
Binghamton University
Public humanities reaches beyond classroom and academic walls by encouraging the creation of accessible and open scholarship, projects and resources that engage a community audience. Teaching students in public humanities classes, or creating public humanities work, requires access to and knowledge of tools and methods to create and share scholarship for the public eye including web design, oral history, digital storytelling and more.
For this open, two-day, conference, we invite faculty, technologists, librarians, teaching and learning support specialists, and students to engage in discussions and workshops focused on tools and methods essential for effective public humanities work. This conference offers a platform for educators and practitioners to share their experiences and collaborate on projects that resonate with and engage diverse community audiences.
Presentations on any aspect of public humanities or community engaged work inside and outside of the classroom are welcome.
Themes or categories that are included or may be helpful to think about are:
- Creating, exploring or working with local history collections including oral histories
- Writing about local news or politics and creating engaged citizen students
- Ways of fostering and sustaining long term community relationships
- Using digital storytelling tools to create public facing content
- Challenges and opportunities engaging students in public facing work
- Specific lessons or approaches to working digital tools into classrooms
- Fostering student creativity and advocacy through community engaged learning
