What Is The Role Of The Humanities At The Start Of 21st Century? In The Last Few Decades, The Various Disciplines Of The Humanities (history, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Art History, Media Studies) Have Encountered A Broad Range Of Challenges, Related To The Future Of Print Culture, To Shifts In Funding Strategies, And To The Changing Contours Of Culture And Society. Several Publications Have Addressed These Challenges As Well As Potential Responses On A Theoretical Level. This Coedited Volume Opts For A Different Strategy And Presents Accessible Case Studies That Demonstrate What Humanities Scholars Contribute To Concrete And Pressing Social Debates About Topics Including Adoption, Dementia, Hacking, And Conservation. These Engaged Forms Of Humanities Research Reveal The Continued Importance Of Thinking And Rethinking The Nature Of Art, Culture, And Public Life. Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Foreword: Culture And Anarchy Revisited -- Introduction: Engaged And Engaging Humanities -- Part I Subjectivities And Communities -- 1. Literature As Equipment For Living Parental Self-fashioning In Full Circle Adoptions -- 2. Look! Look Now, So Beautiful Collaborative Engagement With An Artistic Film Installation In Residential Dementia Care -- 3. Examining Multilinguistic Practices In A Peripheral Region: Social Categorization And Belonging -- 4. Hacking Rules: Facilitating Inclusivity In Hacker- And Makerspaces -- Part Ii Engaging Narratives -- 5. Generation War: Dissonant Perceptions Of The Second World War And The Holocaust -- 6. 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 -- 7. Minimalist Lifestyles And The Path To Degrowth: Towards An Engaged Mindfulness -- Part Iii Collaborations -- 8. Embedded, Embodied, Engaged: Studying And Valorizing Home Movie Dispositifs -- 9. History In A Box: Bringing Families Together Through Technology -- 10. Bri