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

Can You Hear Me Now? Effective Section 106 Consultation for Public Historians

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Local governments, tribes, nonprofits, and the public are increasingly asked to comment on federal activities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Read More

Archival Inspiration: Using Primary Sources in the Creative Arts

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

Archival materials are often values primarily for their evidential value – proof that some action happened and was recorded in the annals of history. 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