After the Revolution: Preservation, Heritage, and Public Memory
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Material Culture
- Place
- Preservation
ABSTRACT
I would like to present on issues of ownership, stewardship, use, and interpretation that surfaced surrounding the San Carlos of Key West between the years 1960-1996. Read More
Public History and Public Archaeology in West Africa: Best Practices, Challenges, and Community Narratives from the Field
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Material Culture
- Place
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
The roundtable brings together researchers, community members, and other heritage practitioners working in and/or originating from West Africa to discuss how public history and public archaeology methodologies can be uniquely applied, adjusted, and implemented in the West African context. Read More
Gendered Politics and Commemoration | Mercy Otis Warren and Her Brother: A Case Study in the Gendered Politics of Commemoration
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- 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.
PROPOSAL TYPE
Individual
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Labor and Economy
- Memory
- Place
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
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
PROPOSAL TYPE
Structured Conversation
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Memory
- Oral History
- Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT
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
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Memory
- Place
ABSTRACT
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
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Environmental Sustainability
- Oral History
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
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
PROPOSAL TYPE
Working Group
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Place
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
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
PROPOSAL TYPE
Individual
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Memory
- Oral History
ABSTRACT
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
PROPOSAL TYPE
Individual
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Museums/Exhibits
- Oral History
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
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