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Access to Historical Documents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
Bridging the gap between end-of-life care and public historians
PROPOSAL TYPE
Working Group
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Memory
- Oral History
ABSTRACT
By 2030, according to an oft-reported statistic, one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older. Read More
Is a Transformative Public History Program Possible?
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Place
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This proposal is about our efforts to establish a transformative public history program at an HBCU, a program which not only diversifies the field but also revolutionizes the pedagogical approach of public history programs and raises the historical consciousness of the nation. Read More
“The Future of the Society is Hidden:” Whiteness, Commemoration, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers
PROPOSAL TYPE
Orphan Paper in need of a wider group
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Government Historians
- Material Culture
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Place
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This paper will address to founding of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) using their recently-opened museum archives. Read More
Reclaiming Rejected People
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
As historians work towards a more complete narrative of the past we are seeing greater efforts to center and uplift populations society once rejected. Read More
Soot in the Mortar: Interpreting the Origins of the Climate Crisis at Historic Sites
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Environmental Sustainability
- Labor and Economy
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Climate change mitigation and advocacy are growing topics in museums, but it is rare for sites with historical connections to industry or fossil fuel to interpret the origins of the crisis. Read More