Engaged Humanities: Rethinking Art, Culture, and Public Life

Table of Contents\nForeword: Culture and Anarchy Revisited\nIntroduction: Engaged and Engaging Humanities\nPart I Subjectivities and Communities\n1. “Literature as Equipment for Living” Parental Self-Fashioning in Full Circle Adoptions\n2. “Look! Look Now, So Beautiful” Collaborative Engagement with an Artistic Film Installation in Residential Dementia Care\n3. Examining Multilinguistic Practices in a Peripheral Region: Social Categorization and Belonging\n4. Hacking Rules: Facilitating Inclusivity in Hacker- and Makerspaces\nPart II Engaging Narratives\n5. Generation War: Dissonant Perceptions of the Second World War and the Holocaust\n6. Revisiting a Vanished Shtetl A Reconstruction of the Everyday Life of the Jews of Interwar Grodzisko Dolne Based on Oral and Written Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors\n7. Minimalist Lifestyles and the Path to Degrowth: Towards an Engaged Mindfulness\nPart III Collaborations\n8. Embedded, Embodied, Engaged: Studying and Valorizing Home Movie Dispositifs\n9. History in a Box: Bringing Families Together through Technology\n10. Bridging the Gaps between Theory and Practice through Cross-Institutional Collaboration in the Conservation of Contemporary Art\nPart IV The Humanities Tradition: Pioneers and Longstanding Debates\n11. Between Female Hellenism and Suffrage: Jane Ellen Harrison’s Feminist Engagement and the Early Performative Turn in the Study of Religion\n12. Educating for Democracy: Empathy, Reading, and Making Better Citizens in Martha Nussbaum’s Public Education Project\nList of Illustrations\nIndex