The Causes for Japanese Immigration to Brazil

PROPOSAL TYPE

Individual

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

The focus would be on the history of how Brazil came to have the largest amount of people of Japanese descent in the world and how this connection was made during the turn of the 20th century when Japan was undergoing changes in its government, culture, and empirical expansions. Read More

Monuments to Death or Life?: Encountering Southern Indigenous Historic Environments of Memory

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Chair/moderator
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Environment
ABSTRACT

Public dialogue about Indigenous history in the South is overwhelmingly dominated by “Trails of Tears” narratives, particularly as experienced by the Cherokee Nation. Despite more recent scholarly acknowledgement of Native communities who evaded forced removal and continue to live in the South today, many monuments and historic sites continue to present the impression the Native Southern history terminated in the 1830s. Read More

Bridging the gap between end-of-life care and public historians

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

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

By 2030, according to an oft-reported statistic, one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older. Read More

Finding Virginia’s Freetowns

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Plantation landscapes have been scrutinized by public historians, who have curated the lives of white slave-owners and enslaved Black laborers who called these landscapes home. Read More

“The Future of the Society is Hidden:” Whiteness, Commemoration, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers

PROPOSAL TYPE

Orphan Paper in need of a wider group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This paper will address to founding of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) using their recently-opened museum archives. Read More

Reclaiming Rejected People

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

As historians work towards a more complete narrative of the past we are seeing greater efforts to center and uplift populations society once rejected. Read More

Hungry River Collective, Chapter 2

PROPOSAL TYPE

Collaborative Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

The Hungry River Collective’s Community Viewpoints session at the 2022 conference was so meaningful to us. We were very proud to be a part of the NCPH community. Read More

“The Unmarked and Unremarked”: Interpreting the Neglected Spaces of the African American Freedom Struggle

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

This session will focus on the issues that surround preserving and interpreting spaces of historic and cultural significance that existed temporarily or have gone unpreserved, and how the creation of permanent exhibits and structures that represent impermanent spatial and social practices can complicate prevailing memory narratives. Read More

How do we read the world we live in as a cultural artifact?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

The physical world we live in is a cultural text—composed, inscribed, used, modified, and invested with meanings by its users on a daily basis. Read More

Unceded Memory: A First Nations Memorial of Loss and Recuperation on Stage

lAURIE aRNOLD, gONZAGA UNIVERSITY

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation or Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

In 1910, fourteen chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan, and Couteau (Thompson) Nations prepared a letter, characterized as a “memorial,” for Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s visit to their homelands. Read More