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
Who makes Utah’s past?
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Place
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This panel considers issues of inclusion and representation when considering the history of the state of Utah. The session asks who should be the custodians of Utah’s past, and who should they include in its history. Read More
Monuments to Death or Life?: Encountering Southern Indigenous Historic Environments of Memory
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Chair/moderator
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Place
- Environment
ABSTRACT
Public dialogue about Indigenous history in the South is overwhelmingly dominated by “Trails of Tears” narratives, particularly as experienced by the Cherokee Nation. Despite more recent scholarly acknowledgement of Native communities who evaded forced removal and continue to live in the South today, many monuments and historic sites continue to present the impression the Native Southern history terminated in the 1830s. Read More
Is a Transformative Public History Program Possible?
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Place
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This proposal is about our efforts to establish a transformative public history program at an HBCU, a program which not only diversifies the field but also revolutionizes the pedagogical approach of public history programs and raises the historical consciousness of the nation. Read More
Finding Virginia’s Freetowns
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Memory
- Place
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
Plantation landscapes have been scrutinized by public historians, who have curated the lives of white slave-owners and enslaved Black laborers who called these landscapes home. 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
“The Unmarked and Unremarked”: Interpreting the Neglected Spaces of the African American Freedom Struggle
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Place
- Preservation
ABSTRACT
This session will focus on the issues that surround preserving and interpreting spaces of historic and cultural significance that existed temporarily or have gone unpreserved, and how the creation of permanent exhibits and structures that represent impermanent spatial and social practices can complicate prevailing memory narratives. Read More
How do we read the world we live in as a cultural artifact?
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Memory
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
The physical world we live in is a cultural text—composed, inscribed, used, modified, and invested with meanings by its users on a daily basis. 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
On the Contested Nature of Monuments
Donald Maxwell, Indiana State University
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Place
- Public engagement
ABSTRACT
Twenty-one years into the 21st century, what is the status of monuments erected in the 20th century? Read More