Uncomfortable History and Challenging Collective Memory in Community Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

In 1995, a local history buff in Hamilton County, Indiana discovered and donated a trunk full of records from the local 1920s Ku Klux Klan chapter in a barn. Read More

The Holocaust and Genocide: Proving Atrocities

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

I would like to present on the historical urgency faced during and immediately after atrocities are committed, by focusing on the Holocaust specifically and other recent genocides more generally. Read More

Truth Before Reconciliation: Documenting Efforts to Preserve Black Cemeteries in Washington, D.C.

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

We will present our American University Public History Masters Practicum project in which we created a digital space recognizing the grassroots efforts to preserve historically black cemeteries in the Washington, D.C., Read More

Happy Birthday, William & Mary: Interrogating Artifacts as Tools of Remembering and Forgetting Inside and Outside the Classroom

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Welcome to William & Mary’s 331st Birthday Party! Inspired by a 1993 t-shirt that celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the university’s charter by providing a selective version of the university’s history, our project reconsiders the events deemed noteworthy. Read More

Who makes Utah’s past?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

This panel considers issues of inclusion and representation when considering the history of the state of Utah. The session asks who should be the custodians of Utah’s past, and who should they include in its history. Read More

Collecting memories that tackle our urgent issues now

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

No matter how young or old the person is, recollecting their past experiences may elicit valuable insight into currently ongoing, urgent issues. Read More

Local Monuments and Memorials and the Urgency of Representing Sites of Mass Atrocity Crimes

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Monuments and Memorials
ABSTRACT

This structured conversation will address the role of monuments in interpreting and using the memory of large-scale mass atrocity crimes through short case studies. Read More

Urgency to Preserve Collective Memory in National Parks

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Memory
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

The diverse history of the National Parks is widely unappreciated due to the lack of documentation of primary sources. Over the course of the history of the National Parks, there have been integral stories from all different backgrounds and experiences that were not and have not been documented. Read More

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