Remembering Camp Devens during World War I

Kara Fosey, Fort Devens Museum

Proposal Type

Collaborative Conversation

Seeking

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

The Fort Devens Museum, a private non-profit organization, collects, preserves, and shares historic photographs, documents, and artifacts that tell the histories of Camp Devens and Fort Devens from 1917 to the present. Read More

Food History & Foodways: Have your cake and think on it too

nicole orphanides, independent historian and National Library of Medicine

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

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

In an age of “stay-at-home dads,” dieting fads, and mobile ordering food delivery, how has the food industry changed over the years and what does this say about our lives? Read More

Stonewall @ 50

Christine Ridarsky, City of Rochester, NY/Rochester Public Library

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

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

I would like to propose a session focusing on the 50th anniversary in 2019 of the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969. Read More

Repairing Mismanaged Collections in Small Museums

Meghan Sylvester, Iberville Museum

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

In connection with next year’s theme, Repair Work, I propose a session focusing on how to repair a museum’s collection that has been neglected, specifically in smaller museums that are lacking the funds and staff of larger institutions. Read More

Repair, Reuse, Recycle: Exhibition Construction and Repair on a Budget

Katherine Crosby, McKissick Museum – University of South Carolina

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

Most museums today are struggling with budget issues that make purchasing new exhibition equipment impractical or impossible.  Read More

Uncomfortable Conversations: Interpreting Sexuality at Historic Sites and Museums

Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut State University

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

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

The importance of examining sites and collections through the lens of the history of sexuality.   Read More

Advocacy from the Outside: Working for Community-based Organizations

Tanya Lane, Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

This proposal is inspired by the question: Who decides what is worth repairing? Read More

Is Living History Dead?

Zachary Stocks, Grays Harbor Historical Seaport

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

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

How do “living history” institutions maintain relevancy as society becomes more and more removed from the skills, lifeways, and technologies on display? Read More

Reacting to the (Public) Past

Katie Clary, Coastal Carolina University

Proposal Type

Workshop

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

Reacting to the Past (RTTP) is an innovative pedagogy used in college classrooms across disciplines. Read More

Animals and Audience: Opportunities and Obstacles for Public History in a More-than-Human World

Alison Laurence, M.I.T.

Proposal Type

Panel

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

The “animal turn” is well established across the humanities. Public historians, too, think with and about the non-human world. Read More