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
Black People Did Dope S@*#: New Ways I Found Their Voices and My Advocacy
PROPOSAL TYPE
Pecha Kucha
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Material Culture
- Preservation
ABSTRACT
In the twenty-first century, curation, exhibition, and historic preservation has been part of an evolution. Since the 2020 social reckoning, historical and cultural institutions across the country pivoted in using ways to tell different stories about the injustices against African Americans. 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