From Storage to Story: Activating School Archives for Public Engagement and Student Learning

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

School archives are often underutilized, viewed as repositories rather than active tools for public history. This session explores how school-based archives can be transformed into sites of engagement, interpretation, and community connection. Read More

Staging the Archive: Theatrical Methods, Collective Imagination, and Community Care

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This roundtable invites public historians, museum professionals, librarians, archivists, and artist-scholars to explore how theatrical methods can “hold the line” in public history under social and political pressures. Read More

Rock & Roll in Nashville? Local Scenes and a National Hub

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Nashville jumps from local musicians, with big band pop tunes and piano boogie, to an industry town, replete with new independent studios, pressing plants, and session musicians. Read More

Working Group on Sharing Best Practices and Challenges of Institutional Slavery Reckoning Projects

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

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  • Seeking Additional Participants
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Over the past decade, many museums, universities, churches, and cities have launched projects to explore and reckon with their histories of slavery. Read More

Digital History and the Semiquincentennial: Bringing the Work of Revolution to the Digital Age

PROPOSAL TYPE

Lightning Round

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Data/Information Management
  • Digital
ABSTRACT

The Center for Digital History at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon (CDH) proposes a “Lightning Round” styled session to showcase scholarly digital projects around America’s 250th. Read More

Out of the Archives: Innovative Methods for Sharing LGBTQIA+ Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable or Lightning Round

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
ABSTRACT

This session aims to examine creative methods for sharing LGBTQIA+ history that utilizing growing networks of community and/or museum-based LGBTQIA+ archives. Read More

Los Charros: Changing Landscapes and Preserving Traditions

PROPOSAL TYPE

Open to Feedback

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

We’d like to present on our work on the history of the Asociación de Charros Los Costeños de Brentwood and their cultural home at Contra Loma Regional Park in Antioch, CA.  Read More

Staging The Archive: Theatrical Methods for Presidential Library and Museum Engagement Through Betty Ford’s Legacy

PROPOSAL TYPE

Lightning Round

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This study explores how theatrical techniques can revitalize presidential libraries and museums, using Betty Ford as a case study. Combining expert interviews, fieldwork, and archival research, it argues that performance-based interpretation can bridge archival history and contemporary relevance. Read More

SpeakEZ: An Automated Tool for Generating Transcripts

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Data/Information Management
  • Oral History
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

SpeakEZ is a self-service tool designed at the University of Kentucky that automates the process of creating transcriptions from media files. After uploading, a user can batch run transcriptions, creating several at once. Read More

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

PROPOSAL TYPE

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