The Holocaust and Genocide: Proving Atrocities
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Government Historians
- Memory
- Oral History
ABSTRACT
I would like to present on the historical urgency faced during and immediately after atrocities are committed, by focusing on the Holocaust specifically and other recent genocides more generally. 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
Columbia Canopy Project: Addressing Structural Racism through History & Environmental Justice
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Public Engagement
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
In Summer 2022, Historic Columbia (Columbia, SC) joined nature non-profit Columbia Green (Columbia, SC) on the Columbia Canopy Project. Read More
Truth Before Reconciliation: Documenting Efforts to Preserve Black Cemeteries in Washington, D.C.
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Preservation
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
We will present our American University Public History Masters Practicum project in which we created a digital space recognizing the grassroots efforts to preserve historically black cemeteries in the Washington, D.C., Read More
Happy Birthday, William & Mary: Interrogating Artifacts as Tools of Remembering and Forgetting Inside and Outside the Classroom
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Memory
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
Welcome to William & Mary’s 331st Birthday Party! Inspired by a 1993 t-shirt that celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the university’s charter by providing a selective version of the university’s history, our project reconsiders the events deemed noteworthy. Read More
Re-envisioning 250 Years
PROPOSAL TYPE
Structured Conversation
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Material Culture
- Museums/Exhibits
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This structured conversation is meant to explore ideas together for exhibitions related to the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Read More
Who makes Utah’s past?
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Place
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This panel considers issues of inclusion and representation when considering the history of the state of Utah. The session asks who should be the custodians of Utah’s past, and who should they include in its history. Read More
A History of Special Collections – Archiving the Archives
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Museums/Exhibits
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
For the curators, archivists, and librarians working in Special Collections Divisions across the state and country, maintaining a historical record through the collection of manuscripts, multimedia, and printed forms is not only important but necessary. Read More
Collecting memories that tackle our urgent issues now
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Museums
- Oral History
ABSTRACT
No matter how young or old the person is, recollecting their past experiences may elicit valuable insight into currently ongoing, urgent issues. Read More
Local Monuments and Memorials and the Urgency of Representing Sites of Mass Atrocity Crimes
PROPOSAL TYPE
Structured Conversation
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Oral History
- Monuments and Memorials
ABSTRACT
This structured conversation will address the role of monuments in interpreting and using the memory of large-scale mass atrocity crimes through short case studies. Read More