Solidarity in Our Storytelling: Lessons in Collaborative Historiography

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Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

In this session, we will consider how we, as public history makers, and the field as a whole, have told stories and written history either with subjects as co-writers/participants or in highly collaborative modes that defy traditional and/or solo author/researcher approaches. Read More

Female Empowerment and Climate Change Activists in the Global South

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

I would like to discuss an open access oral history digital archive titled Feminists Shifting Paradigms for Environmental Social Justice. Read More

Remembrance and Trauma: The Needed Reconstruction of The Public Memory Web of Natural Disasters in the Caribbean Basin

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

Stories have power. They can influence, they can help, and they can allow people the chance to process events. Sometimes, this can be something small like winning an award at work and sometimes it can be large like processing the aftermath of natural disasters. Read More

The Alliance Colony: Jewish Farming in Southern New Jersey

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • 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

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
RELATED TOPICS
  • 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

“Working on the Pipeline” – Stories of Latine Leadership, Mentorship, and Representation in NC

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Archives
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

In 2023, the bilingual New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Oral History Archive launched a new and ongoing series of interviews focused on Latine leaders in North Carolina. Read More

COVID-19 and the urgency to capture its history

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Consulting
  • Government Historians
  • Oral History
RELATED TOPICS

I will present a paper on my consulting work in 2021-22 with a military retirement home in Washington, DC.  The home wanted to capture its immediate history of fighting (their words) COVID-19.  Read More

Remembering the Korean War a Different Way

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Individual

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

Overlooked in the history of challenges to the United States military is the African American experience while desegregating its bases. Read More

The Holocaust and Genocide: Proving Atrocities

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Memory
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

I would like to present on the historical urgency faced during and immediately after atrocities are committed, by focusing on the Holocaust specifically and other recent genocides more generally. Read More