Radio That Listens to You

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Open to Feedback

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
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  • Digital
  • Material Culture
  • Museums
  • Oral History
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

In 1973, Springfield was only one of four state capitals without a public radio station. WSSR went on the air January 3rd, 1975. Read More

For the Next 50 years: Fostering the Next Generation of Voices in American History and Decorative Arts

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

As the United States reflects on its 250th, small and local museums dedicated to American Decorative Arts and history face a pivotal moment: how to sustain their collections, engage new audiences, and cultivate the next generation of professionals. Read More

After the Revolution: Preservation, Heritage, and Public Memory

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
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  • 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

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Roundtable

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  • 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

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 Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • 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
RELATED TOPICS
  • 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
RELATED TOPICS
  • 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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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • 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
RELATED TOPICS
  • 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