Conference Schedule

Collect your program, swag, and name badge - then settle in to the Bloch Executive Hall for a networking breakfast. 

Short welcome program at 8:45 am.

• Alex Holsinger 

• Clancy Martin will introduce John Kaag.

• John Kaag will join UMKC faculty in discussing how the knowledge cultivated in the academic walled garden can be strategically translated and actively disseminated to serve our moment, a moment when the university and democracy reckon with their own efficacy and relevance. The core challenge is that the complexity and nuance of research are often met with suspicion, and powerful forces prefer that academic findings remain inaccessible and locked away in specialized journals. Kaag will argue that this reality constitutes an impetus to act. Scholars are called upon not to simplify or "dumb down" their moral, political, and scientific findings , but to strategically engage the public sphere to elevate the debate itself , transforming research into genuine, progressive action. The goal is to prove that moving research to the public is an ascent to a higher form of civic responsibility, not a descent into popularization. Kaag will share some key tactics in making research accessible, but also in negotiating the structural and psychological factors that make public scholarship so challenging.   

• Workshop | The Care and Success Connection: Practical Strategies for Inclusive and Effective Learning | Inclusive, High-Impact Teaching & Advising |Room 211

• Fireside Chat | Early Childhood Mental Health Collective  |Research, Data, and Public Impact | Room 212

• Workshop | Where Scholarship Meets the City: Fast-Track Community-Engaged Course Design |Community-Engaged Courses & Partnerships|  Room 213

• Panel discussion | Healing Harmony: A Model for Integrating Musical Outreach into Healthcare Settings | Community-Engaged Courses & Partnerships | Room 218/Auditorium

• Decompression space (Computer Lab)

Full description of Workshops

• Fireside Chat |  Kansas City Futurist: AI, Heinlein, and the Institutional Economics of Imagined Futures | Futures, Innovation, and R1 Momentum | Room 211

• Fireside Chat | Improving Student Attendance | Inclusive, High-Impact Teaching & Advising | Room 212

• Fireside Chat | Learning Through Volunteering | Inclusive, High-Impact Teaching & Advising | Room 213

• Fireside Chat | Student Engagement/Retention Through High Impact Learning Practices | Inclusive, High-Impact Teaching & Advising | Room 218

• Decompression space (Computer Lab)

Full description of Workshops

• Networking lunch (Bloch Executive Hall)

• Decompression space (Computer Lab)

• Drop In | Simple Syllabus | Inclusive, High-Impact Teaching and Advising | Decompression space (Computer Lab)

• Panel Discussion |Heterodox Economics and The Community Health Economist | Research, Data, and Public Impact | Room 211

• Workshop | Launching Futures: Faculty Collaboration and the Path to National Awards | Futures, Innovation, and R1 Momentum | Room 212

• Workshop | The Care and Success Connection: Practical Strategies for Inclusive and Effective Learning | Inclusive, High-Impact Teaching & Advising |Room 213

• Fireside Chat | Keeping Momentum Going with Public-Facing Scholarship| Futures, Innovation, and R1 Momentum | Room 218

• Decompression space (Computer Lab)

Full description of Workshops

Humanities Research and Teaching With and For Our Communities

• Jennifer Phegley will introduce Teresa Mangum.

For more than a decade, scholars across the country have been developing research projects and courses in collaboration with their communities. The benefits are capacious—new discoveries; new partnerships; and immersive, engaged, applied learning for students. As an added benefit, project-based, publicly engaged learning highlights the value of higher education while also giving students a chance to gain career skills. However, successful “public scholarship” projects often require collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral practices that have not traditionally been part of humanities education or even of the disciplinary scholarly practice in more pragmatic disciplines. To further the rich conversations at this CAFE conference, Teresa Mangum invites us to reflect on the purpose, process, and means of evaluating publicly engaged teaching and scholarship by sharing examples from the inspiring University of Iowa Press book series, “Humanities and Public Life” that she co-edits.

Conference closing - raffle drawing, reflection session and conference evaluation

Afternoon snack provided.

Raffle Prizes - you must be present at the closing session to be eligible to win!

If you registered by December 22, you will receive 2 extra tickets for the raffle.

You'll receive a raffle entry ticket when you check in.

When you turn in your CAFECon evaluation, you'll receive an extra raffle ticket!