COVID-19 and the urgency to capture its history
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Consulting
- Government Historians
- Oral History
RELATED TOPICS
I will present a paper on my consulting work in 2021-22 with a military retirement home in Washington, DC. The home wanted to capture its immediate history of fighting (their words) COVID-19. Read More
Go the Distance: Methods and Approaches to Nominations for the National Register
PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Consulting
- Government Historians
- Preservation
ABSTRACT
This workshop is aimed at both the beginner and mid-career public historian who wish to improve their understanding of nominations and their basic mechanics. Read More
Space for Slowness: Time and Labor in Public History
PROPOSAL TYPE
Working Group
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Consulting
- Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT
As public historians, how might we use our understandings of different time scales to make space for the difficult-to-quantify work of public history? Read More
Access to Historical Documents
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Consulting
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
This proposal seeks to identify the increased decline in access to record holdings and then explore ways that researchers can halt and reverse this decline. Read More
Preserving the Stories While Transforming the Building: Overcoming Challenges in Adaptive Reuse
KATHLEEN CONTI, HHM & ASSOCIATES
Proposal Type
Roundtable
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
Related Topics
- Consulting
- Environmental Sustainability
- Preservation
Abstract
In bringing together practitioners, academics, and community members, this roundtable will grapple with the challenges and successes of adaptive reuse, especially focusing on historic sites embodying under-told stories. Read More
This Happened Here: Institutions Building Awareness With Communities
jack pittenger, ObjectIDEA
Proposal Type
Panel
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Consulting
- Museums/Exhibits
- Public Engagement
Abstract
In order to stay relevant to their communities, agile cultural institutions must be ready to adapt and change their tactics to connect and repair ties with any number of groups. Read More
Repairing National Register nominations: The Struggles and Challenges of Maintaining Accurate Documentation in a Changing World
jENNIFER bETSWORTH, New York State Historic Preservation Office
Proposal Type
Working Group
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Consulting
- Government Historians
- Preservation
Abstract
National Register nominations are often foundational documents in a community’s effort to preserve important sites or neighborhoods. Read More
Public Histories of Poverty
Ethan Sribnick, Consultant, Adjunct Professor, Montgomery College
Proposal Type
Roundtable
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Consulting
- Inclusion
Abstract
As a consultant, I have been engaged in writing institutional histories of social welfare and advocacy organizations that have focused on the needs of the poor and dispossessed. Read More
Sustaining Projects Across Distances
Adina Langer, Curator, Museum of History and Holocaust Education
Proposal Type
Roundtable
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Consulting
- Inclusion
- Theory
Abstract
What challenges are present when you attempt to sustain projects across distances, both physically and culturally? Read More
Relitigating Civil Rights: Social Justice, Public History, and the Law
Erin Devlin, Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington
Proposal Type
Roundtable
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Civic Engagement
- Consulting
- Memory
Abstract
A celebratory public history of the civil rights movement– which casts racial injustice as a relic of the past– has been deployed in federal courts to rollback oversight of school desegregation, voter registration, and to legitimize police brutality and mass incarceration. Read More