Centering Marginal Places as a Strategy to Examine the Past and Engage with the Present

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Place
ABSTRACT

This panel presents three projects that center marginal places to engage audiences in discussing current societal tensions, divisions, and contested visions of the past. We are interested in two interconnected questions. Read More

Remembrance and Trauma: The Needed Reconstruction of The Public Memory Web of Natural Disasters in the Caribbean Basin

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

Stories have power. They can influence, they can help, and they can allow people the chance to process events. Sometimes, this can be something small like winning an award at work and sometimes it can be large like processing the aftermath of natural disasters. Read More

Best and Worst Practices in Descendant Engagement

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums
  • Oral History
  • Place
ABSTRACT

Descendant Engagement has become a buzzword throughout the museum field. There are established best practices, such as the 2018 “Engaging descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museum Sites rubric, published by The James Madison Montpelier Foundation, which can be a guiding force, however, it is also important to know what NOT to do. Read More

Conscious Editing Across Departments

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Social Justice
  • Memory
ABSTRACT

Often efforts to correct offensive terminology in archival and library materials are siloed and ad hoc – one person or a small group in one department undertake redescription efforts. Read More

“Working on the Pipeline” – Stories of Latine Leadership, Mentorship, and Representation in NC

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Archives
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

In 2023, the bilingual New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Oral History Archive launched a new and ongoing series of interviews focused on Latine leaders in North Carolina. Read More

Uncomfortable History and Challenging Collective Memory in Community Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

In 1995, a local history buff in Hamilton County, Indiana discovered and donated a trunk full of records from the local 1920s Ku Klux Klan chapter in a barn. Read More

Collaboratively Building Digital Collections

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

Digital collections are not new. However, archives are rethinking the creation of digital collections—including subjects, workflows, and workforce—after disruptions to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic affected engagement with physical materials and increased interest in the history of minority groups in local communities following the Black Lives Matter movement. Read More

Happy Birthday, William & Mary: Interrogating Artifacts as Tools of Remembering and Forgetting Inside and Outside the Classroom

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Welcome to William & Mary’s 331st Birthday Party! Inspired by a 1993 t-shirt that celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the university’s charter by providing a selective version of the university’s history, our project reconsiders the events deemed noteworthy. Read More

A History of Special Collections – Archiving the Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

For the curators, archivists, and librarians working in Special Collections Divisions across the state and country, maintaining a historical record through the collection of manuscripts, multimedia, and printed forms is not only important but necessary. Read More

The Causes for Japanese Immigration to Brazil

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

The focus would be on the history of how Brazil came to have the largest amount of people of Japanese descent in the world and how this connection was made during the turn of the 20th century when Japan was undergoing changes in its government, culture, and empirical expansions. Read More