The Unifying Power of a Historic Preservation Blog

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Ideally, historic preservation of a property should involve all relevant stakeholders, including government professionals, consultants, local residents, amateur historians, and the people who created the historic significance of the property.  Read More

Tracing the Public History of Queer Representation

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

The Gay Liberation Movement (1963–1980) had many aims, one of which included recovering and documenting a history of sexual and gender variance. Initially, this work was done through LGBTQ+ community-based organizing. Read More

Food for Thought: foodways as a tool for racial reconciliation

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Workshop

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Place
ABSTRACT

The love of food is universal. Food expresses culture, race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. Some historical interpreters have successfully used colonial foodways and cooking demonstrations at sites of enslavement to break down racist ideologies and engage visitors in honest conversations about slavery in the U.S. Read More

Best and Worst Practices in Descendant Engagement

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums
  • Oral History
  • Place
ABSTRACT

Descendant Engagement has become a buzzword throughout the museum field. There are established best practices, such as the 2018 “Engaging descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museum Sites rubric, published by The James Madison Montpelier Foundation, which can be a guiding force, however, it is also important to know what NOT to do. Read More

Strengthening Community Well-Being Through Public History

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagemet
ABSTRACT

This session will present and discuss several projects that are deeply rooted in community-centered work. It will highlight projects that are:

  • Prioritizing collaboration work that amplifies the voices of community members.
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Stories and Structures

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

How do you encourage support in your community for preserving and maintaining historic structures? This presentation will discuss projects that have engaged the panelists with local community stakeholders and helped them create meaningful connections. Read More

Mapping the Black Agricultural Landscape

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Preservation
  • Landscape Architecture
ABSTRACT

The topic I’m interested to present on is visual narrative of Black life throughout the state of Illinois, particularly through the lens of agriculture and landscape. Read More