Dr. Julen Etxabe

Dr. Julen Etxabe

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Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights, Allard School of Law and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member

“[P]ublic scholarship is an important counterweight to the idea that scholarship must be something that we do in the privacy of our own homes, in solitude, in isolation. The way I will frame it feels cliché, but it really is a way of building communities—of getting outside of one’s sense of self, or one sense of discipline and field. Public scholarship is a way of connecting with people, broader society, and the problems of the world.”

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Denise Fong

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PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Studies and 2023 Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Award Winner

“What I see now is, public scholarship really helps drive activism in the community. My focus has become highlighting historical injustices, representing the underrepresented, and capacity-building—whether in supporting community organizations, individuals, or bringing students onto these projects, so that they also get an opportunity to create their own pathway. Public scholarship is a meaningful opportunity to co-create knowledge across many sectors: universities, the broader academic community, cultural institutions, community groups, industry.

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“Across the Pacific” Burnaby Village Museum Exhibit
“A Seat at the Table” Museum of Vancouver Exhibit
Rooted: Chinese Canadian Stories in Burnaby Book Project with the City of Burnaby

Dr. Maria Carbonetti

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Lecturer, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies and 2022 Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Award Winner

“For me, community engagement is always public humanities. Teaching languages is about dialogue and conversation and sharing knowledge, particularly with our larger community…I think this is the connection between language learning and the public humanities: that we learn through constant conversation, through which we create more understanding and knowledge that is relevant for students and relevant for the world that we live in. If not, why take a language course? Why not just learn by ourselves? The students miss so much if they do not engage with the public.”

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