Food for Thought: foodways as a tool for racial reconciliation

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Workshop

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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Representing History, Memory, and Identity in Heritage Museums

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Traditional Panel

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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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  • 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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  • 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
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  • 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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  •  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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  • 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