Gendered Politics and Commemoration | Mercy Otis Warren and Her Brother: A Case Study in the Gendered Politics of Commemoration

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Two guardians watch over the front lawn of the Barnstable, MA Superior Courthouse, one on the right side and one on the left. Read More

Solidarity in Our Storytelling: Lessons in Collaborative Historiography

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Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

In this session, we will consider how we, as public history makers, and the field as a whole, have told stories and written history either with subjects as co-writers/participants or in highly collaborative modes that defy traditional and/or solo author/researcher approaches. Read More

Centering Marginal Places as a Strategy to Examine the Past and Engage with the Present

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Place
ABSTRACT

This panel presents three projects that center marginal places to engage audiences in discussing current societal tensions, divisions, and contested visions of the past. We are interested in two interconnected questions. Read More

“Guerilla” Public History: Pop-up interpretive interventions

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

I’m hoping to propose a working group that would collaborate on developing a resource of “shovel-ready” pop-up interpretive public history projects – maybe just a zine of project ideas that we can all share among ourselves and utilize in our home spaces.  Read More

Remembrance and Trauma: The Needed Reconstruction of The Public Memory Web of Natural Disasters in the Caribbean Basin

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

Stories have power. They can influence, they can help, and they can allow people the chance to process events. Sometimes, this can be something small like winning an award at work and sometimes it can be large like processing the aftermath of natural disasters. Read More

Best and Worst Practices in Descendant Engagement

PROPOSAL TYPE

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

PROPOSAL TYPE

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

Representing History, Memory, and Identity in Heritage Museums

PROPOSAL TYPE

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

Mapping the Black Agricultural Landscape

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Preservation
  • Landscape Architecture
ABSTRACT

The topic I’m interested to present on is visual narrative of Black life throughout the state of Illinois, particularly through the lens of agriculture and landscape. Read More

Conscious Editing Across Departments

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Social Justice
  • Memory
ABSTRACT

Often efforts to correct offensive terminology in archival and library materials are siloed and ad hoc – one person or a small group in one department undertake redescription efforts. Read More