Who Uses Who Built America?: Utilizing Open Educational Resources Beyond the History Classroom

Peter Mabli, American Social History Project

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Teaching and training
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

With our soon-to-be launched open educational resource (OER) Who Built America? as an example, we wish to discuss the benefits and challenges of OERs for history educators, and brainstorm best practices for presenting Who Built America? Read More

Reconciliation & Contested Commemoration

Taylor Chadwick Noakes, Duquesne University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Contested commemoration
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

Moving a commemorative stone on the McGill University campus was done in the spirit of reconciliation and meant to make Indigenous history more visible. Read More

Crossroads: Brabant Remembers World War II

Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, tilburg university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Oral history
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

For the commemoration of 75 years of liberation of the Dutch province of North Brabant, Brabant Remembers developed a program of activities based on 75 personal life changing war stories. Read More

Teaching public and applied history on both sides of the Atlantic

Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, tilburg university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Public engagement
  • Teaching and training
ABSTRACT

In the fall of 2021, Margaret Rung (Roosevelt University, Chicago) and I (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) will jointly teach a 15 weeks online course for second year students of both universities on the way in which, on both sides of the Atlantic, specific audiences have dealt with historic events, periods, or developments considered to be collective or cultural traumas. Read More

Playing around with Interpretation

Meighen Katz, Lovell Chen (Architects and Heritage Consultants)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Place
  • Public engagement
  • Reflections on the field
ABSTRACT

How might encouraging visitors to a museum or public history site to play become part of an interpretive strategy?  Read More

And you may ask yourself “Where did religion go?”

Wendy Soltz, Ball State University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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  • 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

Empowering Voices: Social and Community Centered Metadata

Jessica BrodeFrank, adler planetarium

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Data/Information Management
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

As social-justice movements challenge power-structures, the ways in which public historians and cultural institutions create expert knowledge are also under scrutiny. Instead of using traditional top-down approaches to cataloguing, public historians and cultural institutions should be actively co-creating object metadata and research with the public. Read More

Maximizing Divergent Voices for Community Engagement

James Newberry, Kennesaw State University Department of museums, archives, and rare books

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Museums/exhibits
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

Staff members in the Kennesaw State University Department of Museums, Archives and Rare Books (MARB) will share their experiences developing community exhibit projects and facilitating collections development and community engagement for diverse stakeholders and audiences. Read More

Town and Gown: Building Successful Community Ties

Katie clary, coastal carolina university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/exhibits
  • Public engagement
  • Social Justice
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

The conversation/roundtable/panel will provide case studies of successful (or learning experiences!) partnerships between colleges and universities and their communities. Read More

Re-imagining Our Work: Sharing Authority & Better Public History

Mariaelena Dibenigno, william & mary’s highland

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

We plan to present on community-centered initiatives at historic sites facilitated and/or operated by colleges and universities. Read More