Embodied Histories: Using Movement & Humour to Engage Trauma

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

What if history wasn’t just understood—but felt? This interactive session introduces embodied approaches to public history that use storytelling, humour, and simple movement to help audiences engage with difficult narratives. Read More

From Archive to Screen: Documentary Filmmaking as Community-Centered Public History Practice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

This session explores the medium of documentary filmmaking as public history practice by examining topics of community collaboration, shared authority, and institutional tension. Read More

An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: Trauma, Silence, and Healing in Oral History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Oral History
  • Memory
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

I have an individual presentation and would like to be part of an oral history roundtable exploring the importance of oral history in elucidating and preserving marginalized historical narratives, as well as the role of oral history in healing from trauma. Read More

Changing Cultural Identity in American Chinatowns

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

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

From 1850 until World War II, 95% of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. were Cantonese from the Pearl River Delta near Hong Kong. Read More

Ma’aminim on the Mississippi

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

In the 18th century, Prague was a hotbed of a Jewish heresy called Sabbateanism. Even after the heresy had burned itself out, its adherents and their descendants–called “Ma’aminim,” or “believers”– retained group consciousness and for the next several generations, married and socialized only amongst themselves. Read More

Rock & Roll in Nashville? Local Scenes and a National Hub

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Nashville jumps from local musicians, with big band pop tunes and piano boogie, to an industry town, replete with new independent studios, pressing plants, and session musicians. Read More