Surf’s Up!: Using the CESU to Create a New Multiple Property Document for Sites Associated with the History of Surfing
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Environmental Sustainability
- Preservation
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This roundtable will discuss an innovative multi-year CESU funded collaboration between the National Park Service Preservation Partners Program, the UNLV Public History Program and Sea of Clouds a non-profit preservation organization focused on coastal landscape and surfing history preservation and interpretation. 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
Public History Work is Women’s Work
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel or Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
In this session we would like to have either a series of presentations or a structured conversation around how the history of public history is women’s history. Read More
The Causes for Japanese Immigration to Brazil
PROPOSAL TYPE
Individual
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Memory
- Preservation
ABSTRACT
The focus would be on the history of how Brazil came to have the largest amount of people of Japanese descent in the world and how this connection was made during the turn of the 20th century when Japan was undergoing changes in its government, culture, and empirical expansions. 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Access to Historical Documents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