BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Harry Boyte is Senior Fellow at The University of Minnesota's H umphrey School of Public Affairs\, Senior Scholar at Augsburg College’s Sa bo Center for Democracy and Citizenship\, and a National Associate at the Kettering Foundation. A social theorist with a background in civil rights organizing\, Boyte is the author of numerous books and articles including Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life (University of Pe nnsylvania Press\, 2004)\; Building America: The Democratic Promise of Pub lic Work\, with Nan Kari (Temple University Press\, 1996)\; Free Spaces: T he Sources of Democratic Change in America\, with Sara M. Evans (Harper &a mp\; Row\, 1986\; University of Chicago\, 1992)\, and his recent edited vo lume\, Democracy's Education: Public Work\, Citizenship\, and the Future o f Colleges and Universities (Vanderbilt University Press\, 2015). Boyte is a leading architect of the new civic studies and the "public work" approa ch to civic education\, writing about democracy\, professionalism\, and pu blic life in the New York Times\, Huffington Post\, and a range of academi c and popular outlets. Founder of Public Achievement\, Boyte has also prom oted civic engagement and education through leadership roles in the New Ci tizenship\, the National Commission on Civic Renewal\, the American Common wealth Partnership\, Imagine America\, and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa.\nTo help frame the discussion\, Boyte has suggested that we read in advance three short excerpts from Peter Levine and Karol Edward So ltan (eds.)\, Civic Studies: Approaches to the Emerging Field (2014):\n\nP eter Levine\, “The Case for Civic Studies” (pp. 3-8)\nHarry C. Boyte and B lase Scarnati\, “Transforming Higher Education in a Larger Context: The Ci vic Politics of Public Work” (pp. 77-90)\nPhilip Nyden\, “Public Sociology \, Civic Education\, and Engaged Research” (pp. 103-114)\n\nThe entire vol ume is downloadable here: https://www.academia.edu/12180221/Civic_Studies_ Approaches_to_the_Emerging_Field. If you prefer\, email Chris Higgins (crh 4@illinois.edu) and he will email you a pdf of the three readings. And ple ase join us even if you do not have time to read in advance.Sponsor:Campus Conversation on Undergraduate Education and the Illinois Program for Rese arch in the Humanities DTEND:20160225T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T211935Z DTSTART:20160225T180000Z LOCATION:IL\,USA\,Champaign SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A brownbag event with Harry Boyte: "Public Humanities and the New C ivic Studies” UID:RFCALITEM639116939754892470 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Harry Boyte is Senior Fellow at The Univers ity of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs\, Senior Scholar at A ugsburg College’s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship\, and a Nation al Associate at the Kettering Foundation. A social theorist with a backgro und in civil rights organizing\, Boyte is the author of numerous books and articles including Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Li fe (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2004)\; Building America: The Democ ratic Promise of Public Work\, with Nan Kari (Temple University Press\, 19 96)\; Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America\, with Sara M. Evans (Harper &\; Row\, 1986\; University of Chicago\, 199 2)\, and his recent edited volume\, Democracy's Education: Public Work\, C itizenship\, and the Future of Colleges and Universities (Vanderbilt Unive rsity Press\, 2015). Boyte is a leading architect of the new civic studies and the "public work" approach to civic education\, writing about democra cy\, professionalism\, and public life in the New York Times\, Huffington Post\, and a range of academic and popular outlets. Founder of Public Achi evement\, Boyte has also promoted civic engagement and education through l eadership roles in the New Citizenship\, the National Commission on Civic Renewal\, the American Commonwealth Partnership\, Imagine America\, and th e Institute for Democracy in South Africa.

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To help frame the discu ssion\, Boyte has suggested that we read in advance three short excerpts f rom Peter Levine and Karol Edward Soltan (eds.)\, Civic Studies: Appro aches to the Emerging Field (2014):

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  1. Peter Levine\, “Th e Case for Civic Studies” (pp. 3-8)
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  2. Harry C. Boyte and Blase Sca rnati\, “Transforming Higher Education in a Larger Context: The Civic Poli tics of Public Work” (pp. 77-90)
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  3. Philip Nyden\, “Public Sociolog y\, Civic Education\, and Engaged Research” (pp. 103-114)
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The entire volume is downloadable here: https://www.acade mia.edu/12180221/Civic_Studies_Approaches_to_the_Emerging_Field.
I f you prefer\, email Chris Higgins (crh4@illinois.edu) and he will email y ou a pdf of the three readings. And please join us even if you do not have time to read in advance.

Sponsor:

Campus Conversation on Undergraduate Education and the Illinois Program f or Research in the Humanities

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