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
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
PROPOSAL TYPE
Orphan Paper in need of a wider group
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- 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
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- 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?
PROPOSAL TYPE
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
Black People Did Dope S@*#: New Ways I Found Their Voices and My Advocacy
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Pecha Kucha
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Material Culture
- Preservation
ABSTRACT
In the twenty-first century, curation, exhibition, and historic preservation has been part of an evolution. Since the 2020 social reckoning, historical and cultural institutions across the country pivoted in using ways to tell different stories about the injustices against African Americans. Read More
Responsible and Responsive Interpretation of Intersectional Histories in Museum Exhibitions
Jennifer Levasseur, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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Structured Conversation
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- Material Culture
- Museums/Exhibits
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ABSTRACT
This structured conversation will address best practices for interpreting intersectional histories in museum exhibitions through short case studies and group discussion. Read More
University Museums, Unsavory History, & Proud Alumni
David Strittmatter, ohio northern university
PROPOSAL TYPE
Structured Conversation
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Material Culture
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT
A fellow history colleague and I will be teaching a special topics public history course at our institution this fall, and the subject matter is directly tied to the university’s sesquicentennial. Read More
Revolutionary Houses / Revolutionary Narratives: Working Towards America’s 250th Anniversary
Amy Speckart, independent scholar
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Traditional panel
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Material culture
- Memory
- Place
ABSTRACT
This panel will convene contemporary voices working to examine and change narratives about Revolutionary Era historic houses broadly conceived around the Atlantic world, circa 1750-1830. Read More
Virtual Tour of Places in Utah that Have Meaning to Traditional Communities
elizabeth hora, utah division of state history
PROPOSAL TYPE
Community Viewpoints
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Material Culture
- Place
ABSTRACT
An experimental format that allows a wide audience to experience virtually places and landscapes from a variety of traditional and local perspectives. Read More