Museums, Landlords, and Affordable Housing

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Many public history institutions are sustained by an under-acknowledged source of revenue: renting and leasing residential property. 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

The First Five Years: Finding Your Way After Graduation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

While career resources for both new graduates and established professionals are plentiful, we have experienced a lack of resources for those in between. Read More

Empowering the Public History Workplace: Information, Advocacy, and Salary

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

From Amazon unions to Covid layoffs American employees are talk about pay, and public history professionals are no different. The growing effort among art museum employees to speak honestly and openly about pay and other workplace issues, challenges public history professionals to act likewise. Read More

Improving Sustainability of Public History Careers

Paul C. Thistle, Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre (retired)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

Seeking
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Three major surveys 10 years apart of working Canadians with ‘knowledge worker’ characteristics similar to public historians found stress levels had increased and life satisfaction declined among the full-time employed. Read More

Infrastructure: Historical Impacts and Possibilities

ANNE SALSICH, OBERLIN college

PROPOSAL TYPE

Pecha Kucha

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Environment
  • Government Historians
  • Labor and Economy
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This collaborative session would bring multiple cultural perspectives to bear on infrastructure inequality and opportunity. Read More

Public Historians and the Pandemic: A Countywide Response to COVID-19

ALAN NEWELL, MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Data/Information Management
  • Labor and Economy
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

In late March, at the suggestion of a County Commissioner in Missoula, Montana, public and private citizens and historians from Missoula City and County government, the University of Montana, Missoula downtown organizations and county historical museums formed a group to collect the community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

Budgeting for Change

JESSICA KNAPP, JESSICA KNAPP CONSULTING

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
  • Finance
Abstract

Have you heard public history organizations or their employees use their budgets as an excuse to not include diverse and underrepresented voices, to keep their programming in the past, or to not pay employees what they deserve. Read More

“Inside the Counting House”: the Brown Brothers records and serving new communities in digitized archives

Thomas Lannon, New York Public Library

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Labor and Economy
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

In 2017, The New York Public Library received a CLIR Hidden Collections grant to digitize the historic records of the mercantile firm and bank, Brown Brothers & Co. Read More

The Racial and Class Politics of Industrial Heritage

Steven High, Concordia University

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Labor and Economy
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Much of the scholarship has focused on industrial heritage sites with little regard for their relationships with area residents. Heritage may have a vital role to play in recognizing the industrial past and in countering enforced forgetting, but is the politics of recognition enough? Read More