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

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • 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

PROPOSAL TYPE

Individual

SEEKING
  • 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

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • 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