Studying class and its effects in the past to understand its power today

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Writing Class: Public Engagement and Politics in the New Class History is an international workshop series that offers historians the chance to explicate class history, calling it by its name as we work to understand its politics, audience, and impact. Three events, in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, bring together local scholars and writing professionals. At each workshop, we address how to engage with, write about, and problematize class to audiences both inside and outside of the academy. The aim is to think deeply about the meanings and use of “class” as a conceptual and historical framework; gain skills in writing for larger, more diverse audiences; and learn from in-person conversations about local contingencies of class that operate in the present day, mobilizing this new, localized knowledge to inform scholarly writing for the public. 

At the end of the workshops, participants are encouraged to write, edit, and submit works for publication as op-eds in online forums and major international news publications.