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

Playing around with Interpretation

Meighen Katz, Lovell Chen (Architects and Heritage Consultants)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Place
  • Public engagement
  • Reflections on the field
ABSTRACT

How might encouraging visitors to a museum or public history site to play become part of an interpretive strategy?  Read More

On Her Own: Recognising and interpreting the experiences of single women

Meighen Katz, Lovell Chen (Architects and Heritage Consultants)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
  • Place
ABSTRACT

One of the conversations to arise from the #MeToo/#It’sTime discourses has been the frequency with which empathy for women is framed in terms of their relationship to others, for example, “she is someone’s daughter”. Read More

And you may ask yourself “Where did religion go?”

Wendy Soltz, Ball State University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This proposal invites participants to engage in a presentation and conversation about the changing nature of religious landscapes and the effects of these changes on the local communities, the historical record, and the built environment. Read More

Reimagining Religious Heritage and Indigenous Visibility in the Great Lakes

Sean Jacobson, Loyola University Chicago

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

The Great Lakes region holds rich resources in both Indigenous/First Nations history and North American religious heritage. Read More

Preservation Beyond Property: Radical Alternatives to Preservation Praxis

BRIAN WHETSTONE, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This proposal seeks concrete alternatives to preservation practice that transcend the limitations of historic preservation’s entanglement with private property ownership. Read More

Infrastructure: Historical Impacts and Possibilities

ANNE SALSICH, OBERLIN college

PROPOSAL TYPE

Pecha Kucha

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Environment
  • Government Historians
  • Labor and Economy
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This collaborative session would bring multiple cultural perspectives to bear on infrastructure inequality and opportunity. Read More

“Nevertheless, She Persisted”: Preserving Local Women’s History in the Wake of the 19th Amendment Centennial

brandi burns, boise city department of arts & history

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Place
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

As one of many individuals across the country that worked on the 2020 suffrage commemoration, I would like to propose convening a working group to discuss efforts to continue bringing stories of women to the forefront in our local communities. Read More