Barriers to History: Making History and Historical Research Accessible

SELENA MOON, INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

Seeking

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

This conversation explores the difficulties that those with disabilities may have in conducting and accessing to showcasing their research, from transportation barriers to inaccessible spaces, to lack of digitized materials. Read More

Suffrage at 100: Reflecting

KATHERINE KITTERMAN, BETTER DAYS 2020

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

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

This roundtable will include public historians at suffrage centennial organizations in Utah, Washington, and other states TBD on their work to commemorate the 19th Amendment in 2020. Read More

“That’s Something You Do After Research”: Public History in a Traditional Graduate Program

ANGELA TATE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

Career diversity! alt-ac! transferrable skills! Public humanities will save the discipline!

These are conversations cropping up across academia in the wake of the Jobs Crisis. Read More

In Defense of Public History – 40 Years Later

PATRICE GREEN, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

Defining public history has been a challenge in the last forty years. Read More

Representing Subjugated Perspectives of Milwaukeeans through Oral History

paul newcomb, university of wisconsin-milwaukee

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice
Abstract

Our project is a series of oral history interviews conducted with immigrant rights organizers and advocates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin such as Voces de la Frontera, Youth Empowered in the Struggle, Young People’s Resistance Committee, and other local organizations for immigrants, undocumented citizens, and refugees. Read More

Change for the Better: A Case Study in Decolonization

Cynthia Gresser, The Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

Seeking

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

A fast paced presentation outlining one museum’s challenges and successes in stripping its ingrained institutional colonialism. Read More

Public History Parents: Leaning In, Opting Out, and the Struggle for Work-Life Balance

Emily Mcewen, consultant

Proposal Type

Working Group

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

We are looking to form a working group examining the unique pressures faced by mothers and primary child caregivers within the public history field. Read More

Histories of Our Own

gvgk tang, Temple University

Proposal Type

Point-Counterpoint

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
Abstract

Can history be contrived within the bounds of the white institution – an exhibit, an archive or historic site? Read More

Self Care and Self Repair

Chelsea Farrell, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Proposal Type

Collaborative Conversation

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
  • Teaching and Training
  • Self Care
Abstract

At the Stowe Center, I lead, as well as supervise interpretive staff who also lead, discussion-based tours through Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home. Read More

Advocacy from the Outside: Working for Community-based Organizations

Tanya Lane, Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

This proposal is inspired by the question: Who decides what is worth repairing? Read More