Stonewall @ 50

Christine Ridarsky, City of Rochester, NY/Rochester Public Library

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

I would like to propose a session focusing on the 50th anniversary in 2019 of the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969. Read More

Uncomfortable Conversations: Interpreting Sexuality at Historic Sites and Museums

Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut State University

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

The importance of examining sites and collections through the lens of the history of sexuality.   Read More

“Inside the Counting House”: the Brown Brothers records and serving new communities in digitized archives

Thomas Lannon, New York Public Library

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Labor and Economy
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

In 2017, The New York Public Library received a CLIR Hidden Collections grant to digitize the historic records of the mercantile firm and bank, Brown Brothers & Co. Read More

History in Theatre: A Delicate Balance

Lydia Nightingale, State University at Albany

Proposal Type

Film Screening and Discussion

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

History on stage is a hot commodity nowadays, as evidenced by the recent success of historically-inspired plays and musicals on Broadway and beyond like Hamilton. Read More

The Racial and Class Politics of Industrial Heritage

Steven High, Concordia University

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Labor and Economy
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Much of the scholarship has focused on industrial heritage sites with little regard for their relationships with area residents. Heritage may have a vital role to play in recognizing the industrial past and in countering enforced forgetting, but is the politics of recognition enough? Read More

Advocacy from the Outside: Working for Community-based Organizations

Tanya Lane, Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

This proposal is inspired by the question: Who decides what is worth repairing? Read More

Is Living History Dead?

Zachary Stocks, Grays Harbor Historical Seaport

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking

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

How do “living history” institutions maintain relevancy as society becomes more and more removed from the skills, lifeways, and technologies on display? Read More

Reacting to the (Public) Past

Katie Clary, Coastal Carolina University

Proposal Type

Workshop

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

Reacting to the Past (RTTP) is an innovative pedagogy used in college classrooms across disciplines. Read More

Animals and Audience: Opportunities and Obstacles for Public History in a More-than-Human World

Alison Laurence, M.I.T.

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Animals
Abstract

The “animal turn” is well established across the humanities. Public historians, too, think with and about the non-human world. Read More

Theorizing the Public

Holly Genovese, University of Texas at Austin

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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

We hope to use the new “Theses on Theory and History” by Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder as a provocation to reflect on the relationship between critical theory and public history. Read More