Solidarity Posting: Digital Tools for Public Outreach

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

A museum blog can be a valuable source of information for sharing public history in a public space, but deciding what topics to cover can often be challenging. Read More

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

Building Bridges: Innovative Educational Collaborations Between Museums and the Local Community

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

This panel will feature various projects in which museums have partnered with local community members to enhance educational experiences. Read More

Mixing it Up: Collaborative Queer Public History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

There is often strength in numbers when it comes to interpreting queer history during times of censorship, public pushback, and polarization. Read More

Accessible NCPH

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

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

For several years, DEAI/IDEA (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion) initiatives have become more prominent, promoting inclusion for many marginalized communities. Read More

Shared Memory: Interpreting the exhibitions of a liberation war museum

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

An important task for public historians of memorialization is studying the shared memory of a community. Interpreting exhibitions of a museum portraying the liberation of a country opens up opportunities for that particular community to share their “true” experienced memory of that event. Read More

Learning through the Act of Creation: Students, small case exhibits, and the power of historical thinking

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel (90 minutes) or Individual (30 minutes)

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

One of the challenges facing public historians is communicating the importance of history and historical thinking to the general public. Read More

Effective engagement strategies for small history organizations

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

Small history organizations (historical societies, museums, and more) often face challenges with funding and with staff time. Here, our panel will delve into how to efficiently and creatively manage resources to ensure you’re engaging with your audiences to your full capacity. Read More

Historical Urgency: Changing the Narratives About Haiti from DisEmpowering to Empowering

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

Haiti, created out of an enslaved African Rebellion in the French colony of Saint Domingue in 1804, evolved as an isolated state, rejected by neighbors fearing the propagation of seditious anti-slavery ideas.    Read More

Uncomfortable History and Challenging Collective Memory in Community Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

In 1995, a local history buff in Hamilton County, Indiana discovered and donated a trunk full of records from the local 1920s Ku Klux Klan chapter in a barn. Read More