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

Virtual Tour of Places in Utah that Have Meaning to Traditional Communities

elizabeth hora, utah division of state history

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Place
ABSTRACT

An experimental format that allows a wide audience to experience virtually places and landscapes from a variety of traditional and local perspectives. Read More

Locating Stories: Encouraging Historical Narrative.

robert kibbee, the history center in tompkins county

Proposal Type

Demonstration/Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Data/Information Management
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Emerging tools and technologies are fueling new projects that collect local historical data about individuals and display the information in spatial context. Read More

Public History in Public Spaces

LUIS PAOLO FERRAZ, BROWN UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

“História ao Ar Livre (Open Air History): Public History in the Streets, Squares, and Parks of Recife, Brazil”

In 2015, the project of public history and dissemination of history História ao Ar Livre appeared in the city of Recife. Read More

Putting Stories “Back on the Map”: Digital Mapping at the National Park Service

megan woods, national parks of boston

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Government Historians
  • Place
Abstract

Rooted in place-based learning and engagement, the National Park Service seeks to foster visitors’ connection to their site, whether a historic structure or a natural resource. Read More