Solidarity in Our Storytelling: Lessons in Collaborative Historiography

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

In this session, we will consider how we, as public history makers, and the field as a whole, have told stories and written history either with subjects as co-writers/participants or in highly collaborative modes that defy traditional and/or solo author/researcher approaches. Read More

Tips and Tricks for Women in the Historical Profession

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Moral Support
ABSTRACT

We are looking to create solidarity between women who are currently graduate students and young professionals. To do so, the workshop will discuss workload, work/life balance, and conclude with steps to create a support network via email or GroupMe. Read More

African-Asian North American Relations and Public History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

I am interested in a session (roundtable or structured conversation or panel) on how public historians discuss African-Asian North American Relations.  Read More

Reckoning with Outdated Exhibit Content

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

In the past, Saskatchewan’s Western Development Museum (WDM) focused on creating new exhibits rather than updating old ones. Read More

Interpreting the History of Firearms: A Conversation Continued

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
RELATED TOPICS

This session will discuss the challenges of confronting firearm history at a site like the new Coltsville National Historic Park within our modern day context of gun violence and the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision. Read More

Best Practices for Creating Sustainable Public History Class Projects

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

Many public history educators promote experiential learning in their classes by having students participate in a public-facing class project.   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

Space for Slowness: Time and Labor in Public History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Consulting
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

As public historians, how might we use our understandings of different time scales to make space for the difficult-to-quantify work of public history? Read More

Public History Work is Women’s Work

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel or Roundtable

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

In this session we would like to have either a series of presentations or a structured conversation around how the history of public history is women’s history. Read More

Is a Transformative Public History Program Possible?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

This proposal is about our efforts to establish a transformative public history program at an HBCU, a program which not only diversifies the field but also revolutionizes the pedagogical approach of public history programs and raises the historical consciousness of the nation. Read More