Sustaining Projects Across Distances

Adina Langer, Curator, Museum of History and Holocaust Education

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • 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