Food for Thought: foodways as a tool for racial reconciliation
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Workshop
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
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- Material Culture
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Oral History
- Place
ABSTRACT
The love of food is universal. Food expresses culture, race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. Some historical interpreters have successfully used colonial foodways and cooking demonstrations at sites of enslavement to break down racist ideologies and engage visitors in honest conversations about slavery in the U.S. Read More
Best and Worst Practices in Descendant Engagement
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Traditional Panel
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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- Archives
- Material Culture
- Memory
- Museums
- Oral History
- Place
ABSTRACT
Descendant Engagement has become a buzzword throughout the museum field. There are established best practices, such as the 2018 “Engaging descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museum Sites rubric, published by The James Madison Montpelier Foundation, which can be a guiding force, however, it is also important to know what NOT to do. Read More
Queer Code: bringing the museum into the field
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Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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- Digital
- Material Culture
- Memory
ABSTRACT
Documenting and exhibiting examples of queer history has been a challenging issue for museums and digital exhibition. With the start of pride month, and the grand opening of the Missouri Historical Society’s “Gateway to Pride” exhibit, the feeling of creating ways of brings individuals of the LGBTQIA+ community closer to their history has become even more prevalent. Read More
Strengthening Community Well-Being Through Public History
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Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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- Material Culture
- Preservation
- Public Engagemet
ABSTRACT
This session will present and discuss several projects that are deeply rooted in community-centered work. It will highlight projects that are:
- Prioritizing collaboration work that amplifies the voices of community members.
Representing History, Memory, and Identity in Heritage Museums
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Traditional Panel
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
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- Memory
- Material Culture
- Museums/Exhibits
ABSTRACT
Heritage and identity-based museums emphasize the confluence of history, memory, and identity of the communities they represent. Public historians have a responsibility to humanize, interpret, and visualize these histories that often require considerations of violence, displacement, and erasure. Read More
Preserving China’s Past: Sino-American Collaboration in Cultural Heritage Management
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Individual
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- Material Culture
- Museums/Exhibits
- Preservation
When the Qing dynasty collapsed in 1911, China’s rich cultural heritage fell prey to Western museums and art collectors. With the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, however, U.S. Read More
Re-envisioning 250 Years
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Structured Conversation
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- 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
“The Future of the Society is Hidden:” Whiteness, Commemoration, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers
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Orphan Paper in need of a wider group
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
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- 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
American Girl Dolls and the Public Humanities
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Roundtable
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- Material Culture
- Public Engagement
- Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT
In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in American Girl Dolls as a cultural phenomenon. How do these dolls engage with and introduce people to public history? Read More
How do we read the world we live in as a cultural artifact?
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Roundtable
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Memory
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
The physical world we live in is a cultural text—composed, inscribed, used, modified, and invested with meanings by its users on a daily basis. Read More