Effective engagement strategies for small history organizations
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Museums/Exhibits
- Public Engagement
RELATED TOPICS
Small history organizations (historical societies, museums, and more) often face challenges with funding and with staff time. Here, our panel will delve into how to efficiently and creatively manage resources to ensure you’re engaging with your audiences to your full capacity. Read More
Collaboratively Building Digital Collections
PROPOSAL TYPE
Individual
SEEKING
- 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
Finding Virginia’s Freetowns
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Memory
- Place
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
Plantation landscapes have been scrutinized by public historians, who have curated the lives of white slave-owners and enslaved Black laborers who called these landscapes home. Read More
“Scrollytelling” as Generative Digital History
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT
In this presentation, I will use a digital capstone project as a case study to explore how public historians can use “scrollytelling” (long-form, interactive web publication), in conjunction with robust research and design, to not only communicate but also generate historical scholarship. Read More
Intersection of Documentation and Storytelling
PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop/Conversation/Round-Robin
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Oral History
- Preservation
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
We propose to conduct a 2hr working session with a hands-on, round robin component followed by open discussion focused on Documentation and Storytelling. Read More
Digital Public History on a Tiny Budget
Michael Yee, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
PROPOSAL TYPE
Collaborative Conversation or Workshop
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Museums/Exhibits
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
This workshop/collaborative conversation highlights digital history techniques for public historians at a low to no-cost budget. Read More
What’s in a Name: Confronting Inequity in Commemorative Landscapes
Caitlyn Jones, University of Houston
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Digital
- Memory
- Place
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Across the United States, statues and monuments have been thrown into question. Read More
Preserving Memory, Protecting Privacy: Challenges and Successes in Creating Meaningful Public Spaces in Digital Environments
Sarah Scarlett, Michigan Technological university
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Place
- Public Engagement
- Data/Information Management
ABSTRACT
Public historians using online digital or spatial platforms to engage communities with the shared histories of a particular space are encountering new ethical questions and elevated anxiety levels about privacy. Read More
Digital Public History Lab
Megan Smeznik, College of Wooster and the NCPH Digital Media Group
PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Teaching and training
ABSTRACT
The NCPH Digital Media Group is organizing the second annual Digital Public History Lab – a workshop that provides opportunities for collaborative learning and professional networking around digital resources, skills, and strategies for public historians and professionals working in adjacent fields (e.g. Read More
Teaching public and applied history on both sides of the Atlantic
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, tilburg university
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
Seeking
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Public engagement
- Teaching and training
ABSTRACT
In the fall of 2021, Margaret Rung (Roosevelt University, Chicago) and I (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) will jointly teach a 15 weeks online course for second year students of both universities on the way in which, on both sides of the Atlantic, specific audiences have dealt with historic events, periods, or developments considered to be collective or cultural traumas. Read More