Black People Did Dope S@*#: New Ways I Found Their Voices and My Advocacy

PROPOSAL TYPE

Pecha Kucha

SEEKING
  • 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

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • 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

Seeking
  • 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

PROPOSAL TYPE

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

SEEKING

  • 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

Does the NHPA Need to be Fixed?

MICHAEL BINDER, AIR FORCE DECLASSIFICATION OFFICE

Proposal Type

Point-Counterpoint

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Material Culture
  • Preservation
Abstract

The demolition of federally affiliated historic properties without any mitigation — and the resultant loss of more of our history — continues despite the existence of the National Historic Preservation Act.  Read More

Does the NHPA Need to be Fixed?

MICHAEL BINDER, AIR FORCE DECLASSIFICATION OFFICE

Proposal Type

Point-Counterpoint

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Material Culture
  • Preservation
Abstract

The demolition of historic properties without any mitigation — and the resultant loss of more of our history — continues despite the existence of the National Historic Preservation Act.  Read More

Remembering American Girlhood

TIFFANY ISSELHARDT, GIRL MUSEUM

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Place
Abstract

Girlhood is a marginalized space in public history, often confined to bedrooms, nurseries, and courtships. While exceptions exist, they are seen as rare examples of defiance rather than well known expressions of a marginalized culture. Read More

Interpreting the Historic Sites and Legal History of Slavery

WILLIAM KELLY, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

This paper examines the sequence of events that led to Charlotte Dupuy, an enslaved woman, suing outgoing Secretary of State Henry Clay while living at Decatur House in Washington, D.C Read More

Change for the Better: A Case Study in Decolonization

Cynthia Gresser, The Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

Seeking

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

A fast paced presentation outlining one museum’s challenges and successes in stripping its ingrained institutional colonialism. Read More