Representing History, Memory, and Identity in Heritage Museums
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Material Culture
- Museums/Exhibits
ABSTRACT
Heritage and identity-based museums emphasize the confluence of history, memory, and identity of the communities they represent. Public historians have a responsibility to humanize, interpret, and visualize these histories that often require considerations of violence, displacement, and erasure. Read More
Mixing it Up: Collaborative Queer Public History
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Museums/Exhibits
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
There is often strength in numbers when it comes to interpreting queer history during times of censorship, public pushback, and polarization. Read More
Shared Memory: Interpreting the exhibitions of a liberation war museum
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
An important task for public historians of memorialization is studying the shared memory of a community. Interpreting exhibitions of a museum portraying the liberation of a country opens up opportunities for that particular community to share their “true” experienced memory of that event. Read More