Re-envisioning 250 Years

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This structured conversation is meant to explore ideas together for exhibitions related to the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Read More

A History of Special Collections – Archiving the Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

For the curators, archivists, and librarians working in Special Collections Divisions across the state and country, maintaining a historical record through the collection of manuscripts, multimedia, and printed forms is not only important but necessary. 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

“The Future of the Society is Hidden:” Whiteness, Commemoration, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers

PROPOSAL TYPE

Orphan Paper in need of a wider group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This paper will address to founding of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) using their recently-opened museum archives. Read More

Reclaiming Rejected People

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

As historians work towards a more complete narrative of the past we are seeing greater efforts to center and uplift populations society once rejected. Read More

Far From Formulaic: Artist-in-Residence Programs at Historic Sites

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  •  Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Artist-in-residence programs can provide historic sites with fresh perspectives on their mission and story while addressing social issues of the present. This session will include a summary of primary research undertaken by Ken Turino of Historic New England and Rebecca Beit-Aharon of UMass Boston; case studies of successful AiR programs, including one that addressed race by telling a formerly untold history through art and public programming; and a review of virtual sample documents/contracts that you can use when creating an AiR program. Read More

Responsible and Responsive Interpretation of Intersectional Histories in Museum Exhibitions

Jennifer Levasseur, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ABSTRACT

This structured conversation will address best practices for interpreting intersectional histories in museum exhibitions through short case studies and group discussion. Read More

Digital Public History on a Tiny Budget

Michael Yee, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum

PROPOSAL TYPE

Collaborative Conversation or Workshop

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This workshop/collaborative conversation highlights digital history techniques for public historians at a low to no-cost budget. Read More

The #StopAAPIHate movement: Public History Challenges and Opportunities

Michael Yee, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum

PROPOSAL TYPE

Collaborative Conversation or Working Group

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

How can public historians respond to the surge in Anti-Asian hate?  Read More

University Museums, Unsavory History, & Proud Alumni

David Strittmatter, ohio northern university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • 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