Gendered Politics and Commemoration | Mercy Otis Warren and Her Brother: A Case Study in the Gendered Politics of Commemoration

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Traditional Panel

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  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Two guardians watch over the front lawn of the Barnstable, MA Superior Courthouse, one on the right side and one on the left. Read More

Lessons From the Pauper Graves: The Journey to Memorialize Irish Immigrant Workers Buried in Pauper Graves at 10,200 Feet.

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Individual

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  • Labor and Economy
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
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Last September, the Leadville Irish Memorial was unveiled, funded mostly by the Irish government and  featuring the names of over 1300 mostly immigrants.  Read More

Solidarity in Our Storytelling: Lessons in Collaborative Historiography

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Structured Conversation

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  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Reflections on the Field
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In this session, we will consider how we, as public history makers, and the field as a whole, have told stories and written history either with subjects as co-writers/participants or in highly collaborative modes that defy traditional and/or solo author/researcher approaches. Read More

Centering Marginal Places as a Strategy to Examine the Past and Engage with the Present

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Traditional Panel

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  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Place
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This panel presents three projects that center marginal places to engage audiences in discussing current societal tensions, divisions, and contested visions of the past. We are interested in two interconnected questions. Read More

Female Empowerment and Climate Change Activists in the Global South

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Specific Expertise
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  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice
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I would like to discuss an open access oral history digital archive titled Feminists Shifting Paradigms for Environmental Social Justice. Read More

“Guerilla” Public History: Pop-up interpretive interventions

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Working Group

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Memory
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
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I’m hoping to propose a working group that would collaborate on developing a resource of “shovel-ready” pop-up interpretive public history projects – maybe just a zine of project ideas that we can all share among ourselves and utilize in our home spaces.  Read More

Remembrance and Trauma: The Needed Reconstruction of The Public Memory Web of Natural Disasters in the Caribbean Basin

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Oral History
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Stories have power. They can influence, they can help, and they can allow people the chance to process events. Sometimes, this can be something small like winning an award at work and sometimes it can be large like processing the aftermath of natural disasters. Read More

The Alliance Colony: Jewish Farming in Southern New Jersey

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Individual

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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Public Engagement
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The Alliance Colony, located in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey, was an agricultural community formed by Jewish families fleeing oppression and violence in the Russian Empire. Read More

Tips and Tricks for Women in the Historical Profession

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Workshop

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  • Reflections on the Field
  • Moral Support
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We are looking to create solidarity between women who are currently graduate students and young professionals. To do so, the workshop will discuss workload, work/life balance, and conclude with steps to create a support network via email or GroupMe. Read More

The Unifying Power of a Historic Preservation Blog

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Roundtable

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  • Advocacy
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
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Ideally, historic preservation of a property should involve all relevant stakeholders, including government professionals, consultants, local residents, amateur historians, and the people who created the historic significance of the property.  Read More