Civic Reflection was on the agenda at the 2007 National Humanities Conference, held in Williamsburg, Virginia on November 2-4, 2007. Leaders of state humanities councils participated in several sessions that used short readings to help the councils tackle tough questions about their work. Jamila Owens of the Georgia Humanities Council facilitated a conversation about grant-making using the French story "The Eleventh" as a starting point. Tonya Matthews of Maryland joined Project on Civic Reflection director Elizabeth Lynn in leading a conversation about Frost's "Mending Wall" and Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki-Rosa", in which council leaders explored the ways in which their work builds, mends or breaks down walls between different groups in American society.

Participants noted both how effective and how appropriate it was to use readings in the humanities to think and talk more deeply about the work of state humanities councils.