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

Nurturing New “Imagined Communities”: Grass-root Media Platforms and the Formation of Alternative Historical Narratives in Marginal Groups

Dijia Chen, University of Virginia

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
  • Theory

This panel investigates how alternative newspapers, magazines, exhibitions, online forums, etc. function as contact zones for marginal groups to connect, communicate, interact, and eventually develop into virtual or even real communities with their own narratives and voices against the dominating discourse. Read More

Digital Public History Lab

megan smeznik, college of wooster and ncph digital media group

Proposal Type

Workshop

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Data/Information Management
  • 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