New Arenas for Proactive Public Historians

Rebecca Bush, Curator of History/Exhibitions Manager, The Columbus Museum

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
Abstract

This roundtable seeks to highlight the experiences of public historians who are proactive in their communities in sometimes unexpected ways. Read More

Exploring the Ties Between Local History and Change at the Grassroots

Hope Shannon, PhD Candidate, Loyola University Chicago

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
Abstract

This roundtable will explore how local history can be used to shape political and social change at the local level. Read More

Virginia’s First Lunch Counter Sit-in Demonstrations: Hampton Institute Students and the Dismantling of Jim Crow

Zachary McKiernan, Professor, Cuesta College

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Memory
  • Oral History
Abstract

On February 10, 1960, students from Hampton Institute staged Virginia’s first lunch counter demonstrations; a movement that morphed into economic boycotts, picket lines, and voter registration drives.  Read More

Public vs. Private: Practical Applications of Public History in a Rural, Libertarian State

Jim Bertolini, Historian, Nevada State Historic Preservation Office

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Place
  • Preservation
Abstract

Ranching is an endemic part of Nevada’s history that symbolizes both the culture of the region and its political controversies, from the Sagebrush Rebellion to Bunkerville. Read More

Doing Public History in the Face of Community Resistance

Paul Ringel, Associate Professor of History, High Point University

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Oral History
  • Teaching
Abstract

Our project on the history of a Jim Crow-era African-American high school in our home city of High Point, North Carolina has received tremendous support from some parts of the city’s black community. Read More

New Directions for Public Memory of California History

Michele Brewster, Graduate Student, UC Irvine

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

Presenters to discuss new and future directions for public memory of California History

Description

I would like to discuss how the history of California is presented in spaces of public memory such as museums, historical societies, battleground sites (Mexican-American War in California), ranchos, etc. Read More

Insider/Outsider: Engaging Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation

GVGK Tang, Graduate Student, Temple University

Proposal Type

Working Group

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Theory
Abstract

Who gets to do what kind of work? We, as public historians, must engage the ethics of occupying/interpreting spaces to which we do not belong. Read More

How do we interpret disability in our National Parks?

Perri Meldon, Candidate for MA in History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

I intend to understand how we interpret disability in the National Park Service (and possibly local institutions, as well). Read More

Visitor-Centered Interpretation: Research, Results, and Practices

Brian Forist, Lecturer in Outdoor Recreation, Parks, and Human Ecology, Indiana University

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Teaching
  • Theory
Abstract

Public historians and other scholars are engaged in a variety of research that illuminates the vital role visitors to heritage sites play in constructing their own understandings of the past. Read More

Taking Public History to the Streets

David Dean, Professor and Co-Director Carleton Centre for Public History, Carleton University

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Place
  • Preservation
Abstract

This roundtable considers how taking public history to the streets challenges boundaries and borders through multidisciplinary and multifaceted acts such as public art, performance, murals, installations etc. Read More