“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

Improving Sustainability of Public History Careers

Paul C. Thistle, Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre (retired)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

Seeking
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Three major surveys 10 years apart of working Canadians with ‘knowledge worker’ characteristics similar to public historians found stress levels had increased and life satisfaction declined among the full-time employed. Read More

Playing around with Interpretation

Meighen Katz, Lovell Chen (Architects and Heritage Consultants)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • 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

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

Public History in Public Spaces

LUIS PAOLO FERRAZ, BROWN UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

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

“História ao Ar Livre (Open Air History): Public History in the Streets, Squares, and Parks of Recife, Brazil”

In 2015, the project of public history and dissemination of history História ao Ar Livre appeared in the city of Recife. Read More

Beyond #MeToo: How Public History Leaders Can Prevent and Respond to Sexual Harassment

chelsea miller, new york coalition against sexual assault

Proposal Type

Workshop

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination
Abstract

The #MeToo movement has shed light on the widespread prevalence of sexual violence, including in scholarly and professional communities. Read More