On the Contested Nature of Monuments

Donald Maxwell, Indiana State University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

Twenty-one years into the 21st century, what is the status of monuments erected in the 20th century? Read More

What’s in a Name: Confronting Inequity in Commemorative Landscapes

Caitlyn Jones, University of Houston

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Across the United States, statues and monuments have been thrown into question. Read More

University Museums, Unsavory History, & Proud Alumni

David Strittmatter, ohio northern university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

A fellow history colleague and I will be teaching a special topics public history course at our institution this fall, and the subject matter is directly tied to the university’s sesquicentennial. Read More

Revolutionary Houses / Revolutionary Narratives: Working Towards America’s 250th Anniversary

Amy Speckart, independent scholar

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material culture
  • Memory
  • Place
ABSTRACT

This panel will convene contemporary voices working to examine and change narratives about Revolutionary Era historic houses broadly conceived around the Atlantic world, circa 1750-1830. Read More

Who Uses Who Built America?: Utilizing Open Educational Resources Beyond the History Classroom

Peter Mabli, American Social History Project

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Teaching and training
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

With our soon-to-be launched open educational resource (OER) Who Built America? as an example, we wish to discuss the benefits and challenges of OERs for history educators, and brainstorm best practices for presenting Who Built America? Read More

Reconciliation & Contested Commemoration

Taylor Chadwick Noakes, Duquesne University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Contested commemoration
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

Moving a commemorative stone on the McGill University campus was done in the spirit of reconciliation and meant to make Indigenous history more visible. Read More

Cursive Writing Disappearance Impact & Solutions

Paul C. Thistle, Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre (retired)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Teaching and Training
  • Archives
ABSTRACT

Given that a significant proportion of archival holdings accessioned to date are in cursive handwriting format, has anyone at all begun thinking about, or planning for, the disappearance of the ability of future researchers to read cursive handwriting—to say nothing about new generations of archives staff? Read More

Crossroads: Brabant Remembers World War II

Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, tilburg university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Oral history
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

For the commemoration of 75 years of liberation of the Dutch province of North Brabant, Brabant Remembers developed a program of activities based on 75 personal life changing war stories. Read More

Family Stories

Emily Keyes, Know History Inc.

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Storytelling
ABSTRACT

This panel will explore the ways people create family narratives and what happens when well-established narratives are challenged. Read More

And you may ask yourself “Where did religion go?”

Wendy Soltz, Ball State University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

This proposal invites participants to engage in a presentation and conversation about the changing nature of religious landscapes and the effects of these changes on the local communities, the historical record, and the built environment. Read More