Presenting Racial Histories at Predominately White Institutions

JILL FOUND, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

As more historically white and white-majority colleges and universities study their own racist histories, how do they present this past to the public? Read More

Transient Tapestries: Unraveling the Stories of Displaced Communities in Tennessee

DANIELLE SHELTON, MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Social Justice
Abstract

This panel will explore how public history can tell the stories that have been rendered invisible due to displacement. Read More

Institutional Histories & the Construction of Memory

PAIGE MITCHELL, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TWIN CITIES

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Social Justice
Abstract

In the Fall of 2018, an exhibit called “A Campus Divided,” which opened at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, caused a stir on campus and in the larger Twin Cities community. Read More

Implications of Monuments in Southern Communities

Alissa kane, middle tennessee state university

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Place
Abstract

This presentation will focus on southern commemorative landscapes and the implications of building dominant symbols of collective memory on the physical landscape of communities. Read More

Working in Good Faith: Public Historians and Religious Communities

emily Davis, loyola university of chicago

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel?

Seeking

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Religion
Abstract

Religion remains an integral part of individuals’ identities and provides a basis to form communities. Faith groups pass on traditions to the next generation of believers and teach outsiders about their community’s past. Read More

Wade Hampton, III Monument and Its Legacy

Fritz hamer, SC Confederate Relic Room and MIlitary Museum

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

Planter, General and Governor of South Carolina, Wade Hampton, III remains a hero in the minds of some South Carolinians epitomized by his grand statue erected on the State House grounds in 1906. Read More

9/11 and the New-York Historical Society Docent

RONALD BROWN, TOURO COLLEGE

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Government Historians
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

Events following 9/11 unfolded with earth shattering speed. The New-York Historical Society immediately organized an ongoing 9/11 exhibit. Read More

Space Matters Alabama

Sharony Green, University of Alabama

Proposal Type

Experiential

Seeking

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

In Fall of 2018, students at the University of Alabama explored how even the lowliest person made claims to power in the antebellum period. Read More

It’s More Than A Sign: Neighborhood Heritage Trails in Urban Spaces

Samantha Citarella, George Washington University

Proposal Type

Collaborative Conversation

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Place
Abstract

My research is concerned with the use of public history in urban environments. Read More

You Can’t Handle the Truth!: Reconciling Painful Histories

Courtney Hobson, Maryland Lynching Memorial Project

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

With the recent opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, as well as the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, in Montgomery, Alabama, there have been national discussions about confronting America’s history of racial violence. Read More