Embodied Histories: Using Movement & Humour to Engage Trauma

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

What if history wasn’t just understood—but felt? This interactive session introduces embodied approaches to public history that use storytelling, humour, and simple movement to help audiences engage with difficult narratives. Read More

From Storage to Story: Activating School Archives for Public Engagement and Student Learning

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

School archives are often underutilized, viewed as repositories rather than active tools for public history. This session explores how school-based archives can be transformed into sites of engagement, interpretation, and community connection. Read More

From Archive to Screen: Documentary Filmmaking as Community-Centered Public History Practice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This session explores the medium of documentary filmmaking as public history practice by examining topics of community collaboration, shared authority, and institutional tension. Read More

Community‑Centered Public History: Storytelling, Access, and Ethical Practice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Recent increases in migration to the United States, particularly from crisis‑affected countries such as Syria, Sudan, and Iraq, have raised challenges related to language access and participation in public life. Read More

Staging the Archive: Theatrical Methods, Collective Imagination, and Community Care

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

This roundtable invites public historians, museum professionals, librarians, archivists, and artist-scholars to explore how theatrical methods can “hold the line” in public history under social and political pressures. Read More

Shared Authority in 2027

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museum/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Much of public history practice has been based around the concept of “shared authority,” in which public historians work in conjunction with communities to define and collaborate on historical interpretations and projects. Read More

Changing Cultural Identity in American Chinatowns

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

From 1850 until World War II, 95% of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. were Cantonese from the Pearl River Delta near Hong Kong. Read More

The Jeff-Vander-Lou Neighborhood: A Model for Resistance, Resilience and Sustainability

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

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

This session focuses on the history of successful grassroots strategies which helped a neglected North City neighborhood, Jeff-Vander-Lou (JVL), survive the poverty and political mismanagement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Read More