Preserving China’s Past: Sino-American Collaboration in Cultural Heritage Management

PROPOSAL TYPE

Individual

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation

When the Qing dynasty collapsed in 1911, China’s rich cultural heritage fell prey to Western museums and art collectors. With the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, however, U.S. Read More

Museums, Landlords, and Affordable Housing

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Many public history institutions are sustained by an under-acknowledged source of revenue: renting and leasing residential property. Read More

Go the Distance: Methods and Approaches to Nominations for the National Register

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Consulting
  • Government Historians
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

This workshop is aimed at both the beginner and mid-career public historian who wish to improve their understanding of nominations and their basic mechanics.  Read More

Truth Before Reconciliation: Documenting Efforts to Preserve Black Cemeteries in Washington, D.C.

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

We will present our American University Public History Masters Practicum project in which we created a digital space recognizing the grassroots efforts to preserve historically black cemeteries in the Washington, D.C., Read More

Surf’s Up!: Using the CESU to Create a New Multiple Property Document for Sites Associated with the History of Surfing

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This roundtable will discuss an innovative multi-year CESU funded collaboration between the National Park Service Preservation Partners Program, the UNLV Public History Program and Sea of Clouds a non-profit preservation organization focused on coastal landscape and surfing history preservation and interpretation. Read More

The Causes for Japanese Immigration to Brazil

PROPOSAL TYPE

Individual

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

The focus would be on the history of how Brazil came to have the largest amount of people of Japanese descent in the world and how this connection was made during the turn of the 20th century when Japan was undergoing changes in its government, culture, and empirical expansions. 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

Intersection of Documentation and Storytelling

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop/Conversation/Round-Robin

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Oral History
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

We propose to conduct a 2hr working session with a hands-on, round robin component followed by open discussion focused on Documentation and Storytelling. 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

Can You Hear Me Now? Effective Section 106 Consultation for Public Historians

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Local governments, tribes, nonprofits, and the public are increasingly asked to comment on federal activities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Read More