Sparking Change By Incorporating Music in Public History

ERIC HUNG, MUSIC OF ASIAN AMERICA RESEARCH CENTER

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory
Abstract

Music can help us heal, grow, form community, and open difficult conversations.  Read More

Making the Private Public: Using Genealogical Research to Inform Museum Work

MEGAN CHURCHWELL, PUGET SOUND NAVY MUSEUM

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

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

Exploring the overlap between genealogical research and public history practice, Curator Megan Churchwell will present several case studies of genealogical research performed in a museum setting, with uses including: To inform museum exhibits incorporating Sailors’ stories; To research previously undocumented museum artifact collection;  To tell a more engaging story utilizing artifacts from a Sailor’s life

Description

Exploring the overlap between genealogical research and public history practice, Curator Megan Churchwell will present several case studies of genealogical research performed in a museum setting, with uses including:

  • To inform museum exhibits incorporating Sailors’ stories
  • To research undocumented museum artifact collections
  • To tell a more engaging story utilizing artifacts from a Sailor’s life

My goals for the session include discussing how to conduct genealogical research, when is it appropriate to conduct this kind of research in a museum setting, and some thoughts regarding privacy concerns. Read More

Interpreting the Historic Sites and Legal History of Slavery

WILLIAM KELLY, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

This paper examines the sequence of events that led to Charlotte Dupuy, an enslaved woman, suing outgoing Secretary of State Henry Clay while living at Decatur House in Washington, D.C 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

Change for the Better: A Case Study in Decolonization

Cynthia Gresser, The Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

Seeking

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

A fast paced presentation outlining one museum’s challenges and successes in stripping its ingrained institutional colonialism. 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

Self Care and Self Repair

Chelsea Farrell, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Proposal Type

Collaborative Conversation

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
  • Teaching and Training
  • Self Care
Abstract

At the Stowe Center, I lead, as well as supervise interpretive staff who also lead, discussion-based tours through Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home. Read More

This Happened Here: Institutions Building Awareness With Communities

jack pittenger, ObjectIDEA

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Consulting
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

In order to stay relevant to their communities, agile cultural institutions must be ready to adapt and change their tactics to connect and repair ties with any number of groups. Read More

Museums, Monuments, and the Memory of War

Greg waters, New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

The Vietnam War has long been an open wound on the national psyche. The continuous flow of documentaries, books, academic papers, and other media confirms that our country has not yet made peace with the conflict in Vietnam. Read More