Sharony Green, University of Alabama
Proposal Type
Experiential
Seeking
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Digital
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
Abstract
In Fall of 2018, students at the University of Alabama explored how even the lowliest person made claims to power in the antebellum period. The culminating project was an animated installation held at the Gorgas House Museum, the university’s oldest dwelling. The resulting animations are offered in a five-minute video that unflattens the experiences of the so-called southern belle, an enslaved bridge-builder and Alabama senator and Union P.O.W. Ultimately, the viewer is invited to examine how student cartographic and animating skills are used with surviving documents that cautiously recover our shared past.
Description
Goals for this proposed project:
-Receive feedback on the limits and possibilities of primary sources (letters, diaries, etc)
-Receive feedback on the limits and possibilities of animating primary sources (letters, diaries, etc)
-Receive feedback on the limits and possibilities of public history’s ability to recover the past in digital formats whether online or in-person
-Receive feedback on the limits and possibilities of present-day political climate’s impact on the public and academic community’s ability to address difficult topics involving not easily seen “”victims””
-Receive feedback on the limits and possibilities of integrating music, video and other technology in public history presentations
-Receive feedback on students’ openness to exploring our difficult shared past using the built environment
If you have a direct offer of assistance, sensitive criticism, or wish to pass along someone’s contact information confidentially, please get in contact directly: Sharony Green, [email protected]
All feedback and offers of assistance should be submitted by July 1, 2019. If you have general ideas or feedback to share, please feel free to use the comments feature below.