The Alliance Colony: Jewish Farming in Southern New Jersey

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

The Alliance Colony, located in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey, was an agricultural community formed by Jewish families fleeing oppression and violence in the Russian Empire. Read More

Understanding Immigrant Voices: University and Community Collabortion in Translation

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Digital
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

To collaborate on a new exhibition gallery, the Madison County (IL) Historical Society worked with students and faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to develop a grant-funded digital StoryMap on immigration in Madison County. Read More

African-Asian North American Relations and Public History

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

I am interested in a session (roundtable or structured conversation or panel) on how public historians discuss African-Asian North American Relations.  Read More

My Search for the Real Josiah Henson

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Individual or Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Government Historians
ABSTRACT

As public historians we have a responsibility to present authentic history, to the public. It is also our responsibility to correct inaccurate information in order not to give a false impression of the past to the public, or to allow the true narrative to be changed by commercial or political interests. Read More

Tracing the Public History of Queer Representation

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

The Gay Liberation Movement (1963–1980) had many aims, one of which included recovering and documenting a history of sexual and gender variance. Initially, this work was done through LGBTQ+ community-based organizing. Read More

Reckoning with Outdated Exhibit Content

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

In the past, Saskatchewan’s Western Development Museum (WDM) focused on creating new exhibits rather than updating old ones. Read More

Food for Thought: foodways as a tool for racial reconciliation

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Workshop

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Place
ABSTRACT

The love of food is universal. Food expresses culture, race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. Some historical interpreters have successfully used colonial foodways and cooking demonstrations at sites of enslavement to break down racist ideologies and engage visitors in honest conversations about slavery in the U.S. Read More

Best and Worst Practices in Descendant Engagement

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums
  • Oral History
  • Place
ABSTRACT

Descendant Engagement has become a buzzword throughout the museum field. There are established best practices, such as the 2018 “Engaging descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museum Sites rubric, published by The James Madison Montpelier Foundation, which can be a guiding force, however, it is also important to know what NOT to do. Read More

Labors of Love and Organizing for Solidarity Within, Across, and Beyond the Cultural Industries

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Roundtable

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

This roundtable brings together practitioners and researchers immersed in contemporary labor organizing activities in the creative industries in the US and Canada, including art museums, the public history sector, digital media, libraries, and more. Read More

Solidarity Posting: Digital Tools for Public Outreach

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Digital
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

A museum blog can be a valuable source of information for sharing public history in a public space, but deciding what topics to cover can often be challenging. Read More