In Defense of Public History – 40 Years Later

PATRICE GREEN, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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

Defining public history has been a challenge in the last forty years. Read More

The New Gentrification: A Thin Line Between Economic Development and Urban Displacement of Black People

ARI GREEN, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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

When U.S. cities become so run down, the first response is to revitalize and redevelop. Read More

Podcasting as Public History

eLIZABETH KEOHANE-BURBRIDGE, FOOTNOTING HISTORY

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

Over the past decade, hundreds of millions of listeners downloaded podcast episodes about history. Podcasters interact with their listeners through blog post comments and social media exchanges. Read More

What does it mean to write for “the public?”: Best Practices, Ethics, Public Historians, and Writing for the “Public”

HOLLY GENOVESE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation or Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Who is writing for the public for? And who gets to do it? Read More

Change for the Better: A Case Study in Decolonization

Cynthia Gresser, The Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

A fast paced presentation outlining one museum’s challenges and successes in stripping its ingrained institutional colonialism. Read More

Wade Hampton, III Monument and Its Legacy

Fritz hamer, SC Confederate Relic Room and MIlitary Museum

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

Planter, General and Governor of South Carolina, Wade Hampton, III remains a hero in the minds of some South Carolinians epitomized by his grand statue erected on the State House grounds in 1906. Read More

Bytes of Change: Fostering a Collaborative Culture of Planning and Evaluation for Digital Projects

aSHLEY bOWEN, sCIENCE hISTORY iNSTITUTE

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Data/Information Management
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Few museums and historic sites have a chief digital officer but as more institutions try to coordinate their digital projects and check the proliferation of platforms, tools, and coding languages in use by their staff, managers need to be prepared to foster a culture in which everyone whose work touches the digital participates in the planning, development, and evaluation of digital projects. Read More

History as a Hobby

emily sullivan, history associates incorporated

Proposal Type

Either structured conversation or traditional panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

History can be a challenging field to break into, but there are many ways to get involved with the field and keep your resume fresh even if you’re struggling to find your dream job. Read More

You Can’t Handle the Truth!: Reconciling Painful Histories

Courtney Hobson, Maryland Lynching Memorial Project

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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

With the recent opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, as well as the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, in Montgomery, Alabama, there have been national discussions about confronting America’s history of racial violence. Read More

Public History and the Engaged University

mark barron, Iowa State University

Proposal Type

Working Group

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

This working group will explore how public history fits into the model of an engaged university, defined as an institution of higher learning whose mission is to educate and improve the lives of citizens, both inside and outside of a classroom setting. Read More