In partnership with College Unbound, AS220, the City of Providence, and a diverse local Steering Committee, Imagining America (IA) invites participants to gather in Providence, Rhode Island for the in-person 2023 IA National Gathering. Invoking the cleansing work of fire, the changing form of water, the steadiness of the earth, and the ethereal nature of air, “Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change” conjures the elements to guide the radical work of reckoning with the past to create a future of collective liberation.

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Email us at gathering@imaginingamerica.org or call (530) 297-4640.

Thank you to our partners and sponsors!

Organizing Partners 

  • College Unbound
  • AS220
  • City of Providence Arts, Culture, and Tourism
  • City of Providence, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Community Sponsors 

  • Providence Tourism Council 
  • Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 
  • Swearer Center for Public Service, Brown University 
  • City of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs 
  • Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
  • Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University
  • Brown Arts Institute

Presenting Sponsors 

  • American Council of Learned Societies 
  • United Way of Rhode Island 
  • Levitt Foundation 
  • Center for Community Partnerships, Rhode Island School of Design 
  • Manetti Shrem Museum 
  • Center for Indigenous Peoples Rights

Event and Program Sponsors 

  • Modern Language Association 
  • Bringing Theory to Practice 
  • UC Davis Public Scholarship & Engagement
  • UC Davis Global Affairs

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The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.

By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.