Public History and Hansen’s disease-related memories

Viviane Borges, Doutora, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

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Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Preservation
Abstract

The project proposes two lines of action. The first focused on the identification and enrollment of objects related to the leprosarium history and the second on patients commitment to creating the memorial. Read More

Documenting Sorrow: Condolence Projects in the Wake of Violence

Melissa Barthelemy, Doctoral Candidate Public History, UC Santa Barbara

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Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
Abstract

This session aims to provide insight and guidance to librarians, archivists, and professors who must develop their own unique response to unanticipated and unthinkable tragedies, such as school shootings. Read More

Salmon Design: Oregon’s Heritage Fish Hatcheries

Rodney Bohner, Graduate Student, University of Oregon

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Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Preservation
Abstract

In view of their significance in relation to Oregon’s commerce, conservation, recreation, in addition to the fact that many are already, or are nearing, 50 years of age, the need to evaluate fish hatcheries as historic resources has reached certain imperativeness. Read More

Usage as Authenticity at House Museums and Historic Sites

Ted Maust, M.A. Student, Temple University

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Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
Abstract

The Chamounix Mansion in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA, has been a youth hostel since 1964. In 1967, the women’s committee undertook the project of decorating much of the ground floor in period furnishings. Read More

Hidden Costs of History

Julie Hawks, Doctoral Student, American University

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Panel

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  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

History museums that portray war tend to focus on brave soldiers and technology without problematizing battle scenarios or revealing how people and environments are adversely affected. Read More

Death and Display, Bodies and Boundaries

Katie Stringer Clary, Public History Instructor

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Civic Engagement
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

This roundtable explores the ethics, public reactions, and responsibilities of public historians in the display and exhibition of human remains. Read More

The Persistence of Feme Covert: Uncovering Women’s History at House Museums

Brian Whetstone, Student, Hastings College

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Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

At historic house museums across the United States, the lives of women remain covered in traditional interpretive narratives. Read More

Interpreting the Body: Sex, Reproduction, and Reproductive Labors in Public History

Danielle Dulken, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Teaching
Abstract

Public historians have established the profession is tasked with interpreting celebratory histories as well as complicated, sometimes painful narratives that have contributed equally to our past. Read More

Unpaid Labor: A new perspective on American history and getting the history out that will change America

Clifton Berry, Member, Unpaid Labor LLC

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Working Group

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  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Material Culture
  • Teaching
Abstract

Our topic: 1) the indispensable contribution of the first 12 generations of Americans of African descent (1607-1865) to the U.S. Read More

Repeat Photography: Understanding our Place through Sequential Observation

Craig S. Campbell, Dr, Youngstown State University

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Pecha Kucha

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
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  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

About 1950, George R. Stewart, Professor of English at Berkeley, photographed many different types of landscapes along Highway 40. Read More