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

“The Future of the Society is Hidden:” Whiteness, Commemoration, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers

PROPOSAL TYPE

Orphan Paper in need of a wider group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This paper will address to founding of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) using their recently-opened museum archives. Read More

“Scrollytelling” as Generative Digital History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

In this presentation, I will use a digital capstone project as a case study to explore how public historians can use “scrollytelling” (long-form, interactive web publication), in conjunction with robust research and design, to not only communicate but also generate historical scholarship. Read More

The First Five Years: Finding Your Way After Graduation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

While career resources for both new graduates and established professionals are plentiful, we have experienced a lack of resources for those in between. Read More

How do we read the world we live in as a cultural artifact?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

The physical world we live in is a cultural text—composed, inscribed, used, modified, and invested with meanings by its users on a daily basis. Read More

Empowering the Public History Workplace: Information, Advocacy, and Salary

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

From Amazon unions to Covid layoffs American employees are talk about pay, and public history professionals are no different. The growing effort among art museum employees to speak honestly and openly about pay and other workplace issues, challenges public history professionals to act likewise. Read More