PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Environmental Sustainability
- Preservation
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This roundtable will discuss an innovative multi-year CESU funded collaboration between the National Park Service Preservation Partners Program, the UNLV Public History Program and Sea of Clouds a non-profit preservation organization focused on coastal landscape and surfing history preservation and interpretation.
DESCRIPTION
Sea of Clouds completed the first ever successful nomination of a surfing site with their nationally recognized Malibu Historic District Nomination (2017). The Malibu nomination generated national media attention resulting in the effort to expand this work with a collaborative MPD. Participants will discuss the use of the CESU program to fund innovative humanities projects and the NPS Preservation Partners Program as a way to create partnerships between University-based public history programs and community groups working in the field in need of research support and pass-through funding opportunities. We will present some of the research results about the history of surfing in California and explain how this project builds on twenty years of effort by team members to use the National Register of Historic Places to preserve and interpret endangered sites associated with historic outdoor recreation. These sites represent the challenges and opportunities of dealing with hybrid landscapes that are inseparably natural and cultural requiring understandings of historic preservation and environmental history to preserve. The roundtable will provide important insights on the CESU program and the leading edge of those working to further unit public history practice and environmental history research. Each participant brings unique insights from the NPS Preservation Partners Program, Community-based public history field work, graduate student perspectives on participating in funded CESU projects as part of their program coursework, and faculty experiences with managing a three-part collaboration and facilitating grant passthroughs in support of collaborative research. Participants will include: Chris Johnson, Historian NPS Preservation Partners Program, Michael Blum, Executive Director Sea of Clouds, Myself and two graduate student participants.
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: Andy Kirk, University of Nevada Las Vegas, [email protected]
ALL FEEDBACK AND OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY JULY 7, 2023. If you have general ideas or feedback to share, please feel free to use the comments feature below.
What a fun panel! What sort of feedback are you looking for? To solicit a wider audience, you may want to broaden the proposal to consider other histories of water recreation (or other forms of outdoor recreation in collaboration with parks, like rock climbing, rafting, etc.).
This looks very interesting, Andy! One suggestion I have here is to highlight the “endangered” aspect as a way to emphasize this roundtable’s clear relevance to the conference theme of “urgency.”
I like the idea of preservation and its tie to the historic landscape. I think this topic would attract a wider audience by demonstrating the importance of the history of surfing and how it can be related to many other outdoor activities enjoyed by all.
Thanks to all of you for these excellent suggestions and for your enthusiasm for the topic.