COVID-19 and the urgency to capture its history

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • 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

PROPOSAL TYPE

Individual

SEEKING
  • 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

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • 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

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

Local Monuments and Memorials and the Urgency of Representing Sites of Mass Atrocity Crimes

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Monuments and Memorials
ABSTRACT

This structured conversation will address the role of monuments in interpreting and using the memory of large-scale mass atrocity crimes through short case studies. Read More

Urgency to Preserve Collective Memory in National Parks

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

The diverse history of the National Parks is widely unappreciated due to the lack of documentation of primary sources. Over the course of the history of the National Parks, there have been integral stories from all different backgrounds and experiences that were not and have not been documented. Read More

Bridging the gap between end-of-life care and public historians

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

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

By 2030, according to an oft-reported statistic, one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older. Read More

Intersection of Documentation and Storytelling

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop/Conversation/Round-Robin

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Oral History
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

We propose to conduct a 2hr working session with a hands-on, round robin component followed by open discussion focused on Documentation and Storytelling. Read More

Our Collective Journey – Honoring our Past, Visioning Our Future

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest

RELATED TOPICS

  • Advocacy
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice

DESCRIPTION

As LGBTQ people we  have endured many forms of institutional oppression, discrimination, bias, and physical violence. Our true history is often not accurately reported. Read More

Unceded Memory: A First Nations Memorial of Loss and Recuperation on Stage

lAURIE aRNOLD, gONZAGA UNIVERSITY

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation or Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

In 1910, fourteen chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan, and Couteau (Thompson) Nations prepared a letter, characterized as a “memorial,” for Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s visit to their homelands. Read More