Institutional Histories & the Construction of Memory

PAIGE MITCHELL, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TWIN CITIES

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Social Justice
Abstract

In the Fall of 2018, an exhibit called “A Campus Divided,” which opened at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, caused a stir on campus and in the larger Twin Cities community. Read More

The New Gentrification: A Thin Line Between Economic Development and Urban Displacement of Black People

ARI GREEN, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

When U.S. cities become so run down, the first response is to revitalize and redevelop. Read More

Implications of Monuments in Southern Communities

Alissa kane, middle tennessee state university

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Place
Abstract

This presentation will focus on southern commemorative landscapes and the implications of building dominant symbols of collective memory on the physical landscape of communities. Read More

Representing Subjugated Perspectives of Milwaukeeans through Oral History

paul newcomb, university of wisconsin-milwaukee

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice
Abstract

Our project is a series of oral history interviews conducted with immigrant rights organizers and advocates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin such as Voces de la Frontera, Youth Empowered in the Struggle, Young People’s Resistance Committee, and other local organizations for immigrants, undocumented citizens, and refugees. Read More

Working in Good Faith: Public Historians and Religious Communities

emily Davis, loyola university of chicago

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel?

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Religion
Abstract

Religion remains an integral part of individuals’ identities and provides a basis to form communities. Faith groups pass on traditions to the next generation of believers and teach outsiders about their community’s past. Read More

What does it mean to write for “the public?”: Best Practices, Ethics, Public Historians, and Writing for the “Public”

HOLLY GENOVESE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation or Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Who is writing for the public for? And who gets to do it? Read More

Change for the Better: A Case Study in Decolonization

Cynthia Gresser, The Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

A fast paced presentation outlining one museum’s challenges and successes in stripping its ingrained institutional colonialism. Read More

Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church: Bringing Our History into Our Future

Robert Cowles, blessed sacrament catholic church historian

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Data/Information Management
  • Oral History
Abstract

My Basic Topic will be my efforts as Church Historian for Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Jonesboro Arkansas, preserving the History of the 84 year old Church which was Closed October 1, 2017. Read More

Public History for Undergraduates: Teaching and Learning Beyond the Classroom

Donna Donald, Liberty University

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Preservation
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

To share successes and failures in teaching public history to undergraduates and to invite suggestions for future improvement. Read More

Wade Hampton, III Monument and Its Legacy

Fritz hamer, SC Confederate Relic Room and MIlitary Museum

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

Planter, General and Governor of South Carolina, Wade Hampton, III remains a hero in the minds of some South Carolinians epitomized by his grand statue erected on the State House grounds in 1906. Read More