Embodied Histories: Using Movement & Humour to Engage Trauma

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Workshop

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  • 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

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Roundtable

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Structured Conversation

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  • 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

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  • 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

Rethinking Revolutionary Memory: Pedagogy, Public History, and Politics

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Participants
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

As we near the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary, we are still grappling with how the memory of revolutionary figures like George Washington and other founding fathers, have been preserved and re-thought by public history professionals since the end of the Revolution. Read More

Descendants Illuminate the Unfinished Work of Revolution

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Experiential

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

As descendants of the family of William Whipple, a signer of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, and of Prince Whipple, an African he enslaved who co-signed the 1779 Petition for Freedom, we facilitate a juxtaposition of primary and secondary sources and spaces of our ancestors to illuminate both existing challenges and promising practices to strengthen public history. Read More

Revolutionary Displays? Museums, Violence, and the Struggle Against Indifference

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

On April 23, 2025, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan opened Documenting the Crime: Eyewitness Records of the Armenian Genocide, a temporary exhibition drawing on testimonies from diplomats, missionaries, journalists, and relief workers. Read More

Out of the Archives: Innovative Methods for Sharing LGBTQIA+ Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable or Lightning Round

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
ABSTRACT

This session aims to examine creative methods for sharing LGBTQIA+ history that utilizing growing networks of community and/or museum-based LGBTQIA+ archives. Read More