Visualizing Recovery from Cruel Pasts – using creative arts to relieve the pain

Julia Wells, Head, Isikhumbuzo Applied History Unit, Rhodes University

Proposal Type

Experiential

Seeking
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Inclusion
  • Memory
  • Place
Abstract

While painful events in the past cannot be changed, how we feel about them can.  Our team demonstrates how the story of an unsung hero from the early days of colonial conquest in South Africa can inspire and uplift audiences. Read More

Death and Display, Bodies and Boundaries

Katie Stringer Clary, Public History Instructor

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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

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

Relitigating Civil Rights: Social Justice, Public History, and the Law

Erin Devlin, Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Consulting
  • Memory
Abstract

A celebratory public history of the civil rights movement– which casts racial injustice as a relic of the past– has been deployed in federal courts to rollback oversight of school desegregation, voter registration, and to legitimize police brutality and mass incarceration. Read More

History, Universities, and Community Relations

Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  •  Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Memory
Abstract

Universities intersect with multiple communities both within and outside of the physical space they occupy.  Students do not leave their concerns outside the institutional gates.  Read More

Gender in Public History: Using Public History to tell Untold or Forgotten Stories

Sara Sanders, Student Member

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Inclusion
  • Memory
  • Theory
Abstract

In 1956 20,000 women of all races gathered in Pretoria to demand that Pass Laws not be extended to women. Read More