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

Columbia Canopy Project: Addressing Structural Racism through History & Environmental Justice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

In Summer 2022, Historic Columbia (Columbia, SC) joined nature non-profit Columbia Green (Columbia, SC) on the Columbia Canopy Project. Read More

Happy Birthday, William & Mary: Interrogating Artifacts as Tools of Remembering and Forgetting Inside and Outside the Classroom

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Welcome to William & Mary’s 331st Birthday Party! Inspired by a 1993 t-shirt that celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the university’s charter by providing a selective version of the university’s history, our project reconsiders the events deemed noteworthy. Read More

Access to Historical Documents

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Consulting
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This proposal seeks to identify the increased decline in access to record holdings and then explore ways that researchers can halt and reverse this decline. Read More

Finding Virginia’s Freetowns

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Plantation landscapes have been scrutinized by public historians, who have curated the lives of white slave-owners and enslaved Black laborers who called these landscapes home. Read More

The Rosetta Circle

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Music and Audio Documentary
ABSTRACT

The ROSETTA CIRCLE is a singing collective of care celebrating our unsung foremothers of jazz and blues as archived by Rosetta Records. 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

Far From Formulaic: Artist-in-Residence Programs at Historic Sites

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

Artist-in-residence programs can provide historic sites with fresh perspectives on their mission and story while addressing social issues of the present. This session will include a summary of primary research undertaken by Ken Turino of Historic New England and Rebecca Beit-Aharon of UMass Boston; case studies of successful AiR programs, including one that addressed race by telling a formerly untold history through art and public programming; and a review of virtual sample documents/contracts that you can use when creating an AiR program. Read More