Troutbeck Symposium: CT Humanities Roundtable

The Troutbeck Symposium is the culminating gathering of a year of student historical inquiry across the region. Throughout the school year, students investigate the histories of their own communities — working with archives, museums, oral histories, and primary sources to uncover stories that have been overlooked, forgotten, or never recorded. At the Symposium, that work becomes public. Students travel to Troutbeck to present original films, artworks, research, and storytelling projects before a live audience — contributing new knowledge to the historical record while demonstrating the power of young people as historians. Now in its fifth year, the Symposium has grown into a regional civic ecosystem of learning, connecting schools, educators, archivists, historians, artists, and cultural institutions through place-based research and student-authored public history. Like their celebrated predecessors, students will gather at Troutbeck to reveal truths — sometimes uncomfortable ones — in a significant site in the history of American thought and social movements.

April 24 | 9–10:30 a.m.
CT Humanities Roundtable led by Creative Futures

• A working session bringing together educators, cultural institutions, and program partners to reflect on the Symposium model and explore how place-based historical inquiry can support deeper civic learning.