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

What’s in a Name: Confronting Inequity in Commemorative Landscapes

Caitlyn Jones, University of Houston

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Across the United States, statues and monuments have been thrown into question. Read More

Preserving Memory, Protecting Privacy: Challenges and Successes in Creating Meaningful Public Spaces in Digital Environments

Sarah Scarlett, Michigan Technological university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Data/Information Management
ABSTRACT

Public historians using online digital or spatial platforms to engage communities with the shared histories of a particular space are encountering new ethical questions and elevated anxiety levels about privacy. Read More

Revolutionary Houses / Revolutionary Narratives: Working Towards America’s 250th Anniversary

Amy Speckart, independent scholar

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material culture
  • Memory
  • Place
ABSTRACT

This panel will convene contemporary voices working to examine and change narratives about Revolutionary Era historic houses broadly conceived around the Atlantic world, circa 1750-1830. Read More