Preservation Beyond Property: Radical Alternatives to Preservation Praxis

BRIAN WHETSTONE, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This proposal seeks concrete alternatives to preservation practice that transcend the limitations of historic preservation’s entanglement with private property ownership. Read More

Too Hot for The Horses, Too Hot for History?: Climate Change and Outdoor History

Alena Pirok, Georgia Southern University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

When the temperature climbs above 95℉ in Savannah the carriage horses are given the day off. City officials argue that the heat is hazardous for horses. Read More

Nurturing New “Imagined Communities”: Grass-root Media Platforms and the Formation of Alternative Historical Narratives in Marginal Groups

Dijia Chen, University of Virginia

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

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

This panel investigates how alternative newspapers, magazines, exhibitions, online forums, etc. function as contact zones for marginal groups to connect, communicate, interact, and eventually develop into virtual or even real communities with their own narratives and voices against the dominating discourse. Read More

Infrastructure: Historical Impacts and Possibilities

ANNE SALSICH, OBERLIN college

PROPOSAL TYPE

Pecha Kucha

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Environment
  • Government Historians
  • Labor and Economy
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This collaborative session would bring multiple cultural perspectives to bear on infrastructure inequality and opportunity. Read More

The American Revolution in the Archives and the Classroom: The Impact of Research Agendas on the Teaching of the American Revolution

guy chet, university of north texas

PROPOSAL TYPE
  • Roundtable

SEEKING

  • General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

The panel examines how scholarly research shapes public understanding of the American Revolution. The dominant geographic framework educators use to explain the Revolution is eastern (Atlantic). Read More

Public Historians and the Pandemic: A Countywide Response to COVID-19

ALAN NEWELL, MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Data/Information Management
  • Labor and Economy
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

In late March, at the suggestion of a County Commissioner in Missoula, Montana, public and private citizens and historians from Missoula City and County government, the University of Montana, Missoula downtown organizations and county historical museums formed a group to collect the community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

Discussing Citizenship in Public History

ERIC HUNG, Music of Asian America Research Center

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

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

I am interested in creating a working group or panel on how to discuss citizenship in museum/archives exhibits and historic sites.  Read More

Writing a New Chapter: Sharing, Promoting, and Solidifying Marginalized Histories

HAYLEY JOHNSON, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

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

Uncovering the histories of marginalized groups that have been forgotten within the larger historical narrative is hard but rewarding work. Read More

Locating Stories: Encouraging Historical Narrative.

robert kibbee, the history center in tompkins county

Proposal Type

Demonstration/Panel

Seeking

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

Emerging tools and technologies are fueling new projects that collect local historical data about individuals and display the information in spatial context. Read More

Oral History & COVID-19: What We’ve Learned about the Field, Our Practice, and Ourselves

Troy Reeves, University of Wisconsin-Madison Oral History Program

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

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

This roundtable will allow the participants (& the audience) to discuss how the global pandemic has affected the field of oral history and our professional lives. Read More