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THATCamp

Abby Curtin Teare, Grants Manager, Cleveland History Center

Proposal Type

Workshop

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Abstract

THATCamp is a workshop for digital explorers and enthusiasts. It will consist of 6 to 9 concurrent mini-sessions, conversation, and networking at the intersection of digital technology and public history work. Read More

How do we interpret disability in our National Parks?

Perri Meldon, Candidate for MA in History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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Abstract

I intend to understand how we interpret disability in the National Park Service (and possibly local institutions, as well). Read More

Visitor-Centered Interpretation: Research, Results, and Practices

Brian Forist, Lecturer in Outdoor Recreation, Parks, and Human Ecology, Indiana University

Proposal Type

Panel

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Public historians and other scholars are engaged in a variety of research that illuminates the vital role visitors to heritage sites play in constructing their own understandings of the past. Read More

More than Crossed Wires: How do we Create a Collaborative Power Grid?

Zachary Hottel, Archivist, Shenandoah County Library- Truban Archives

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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Abstract

Creating sustained collaboration in the historic community is often difficult. Museums, historic sites, archives, and other institutions often struggle to do this due traditional, vertical lines of power. Read More

Taking Public History to the Streets

David Dean, Professor and Co-Director Carleton Centre for Public History, Carleton University

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Roundtable

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This roundtable considers how taking public history to the streets challenges boundaries and borders through multidisciplinary and multifaceted acts such as public art, performance, murals, installations etc. Read More

Hegemonic Power, Fantasy Heritage, and the Legacy of Juan de Onate in Southwest Tourism

Frank G Perez, Associate Professor, University of Texas at El Paso

Proposal Type

Panel

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The proposed paper examines the First Thanksgiving of the Americas Festival in San Elizario, Texas using hegemonic theory and Carey McWilliams’ (2016) concept of fantasy heritage to argue the event distorts history, erases the mestizo/Mexican/Mexican American peoples from history, and serves as a vehicle that promotes Eurocentrism in a metro area that is 83% Mexican/Mexican American. Read More

Uncomfortable Histories and Advocating from Within: The Millennial Power Dynamic and Ethics at Public History Institutions

Kate Crosby, Graduate Student, University of South Carolina

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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Abstract

Younger public history professionals have been trained not only in the methods of public history, but also in the ethics of the profession. Read More

Successes and Challenges of User-Generated Content

Monica M. Smith, Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation, Lemelson Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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Abstract

User or visitor-generated content has been a hot topic of discussion in many fields, including in history museums where we, “the experts,” often have concerns about sharing historical authority with members of the “general public” who come through our doors and visit our websites. Read More