What is Reenactment?
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Museums/Exhibits
- Reflections on the Field
- Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT
This proposal seeks to help answer the question ‘what is reenactment?’ It does this by investigating past meanings of the word. Read More
Starting with Stories: Building Exhibits in Reverse
PROPOSAL TYPE
Experiential
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Museums/Exhibits
- Oral History
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
Revolution reshapes societies, but how we document, preserve, and interpret its impact shapes collective memory. This presentation explores “reverse exhibit development,” using oral history as the foundation rather than the frame. Read More
Protests: Radium Girls Changing the Work Force
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Labor and Organizing
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Women have historically been silenced in their efforts creating equality. A specific group of working class women fell victim to corporate greed and corruption and decided enough was enough. Read More
Radio That Listens to You
PROPOSAL TYPE
Open to Feedback
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Material Culture
- Museums
- Oral History
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
In 1973, Springfield was only one of four state capitals without a public radio station. WSSR went on the air January 3rd, 1975. Read More
Nuclear Weapons in Our Midst — A Cold War Revolution
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Place
- Preservation
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
During the Cold War, 49 of the 50 states hosted nuclear weapons, often located very close to the citizens they were designed to protect. Read More
Anniversary as Eulogy
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Public Engagement
- Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT
Anniversaries are often an opportunity to celebrate key figures and moments in history and to reflect on their significance to our present. Read More
Contested Heritage in the Era of Trumpism 2.0
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Museums/Exhibits
- Place
- Preservation
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
We invite scholars, practitioners, and community members to join a session exploring the politics of memory and public history amid escalating culture wars, censorship, and reactionary policymaking. Read More
A Revolution in History Publishing
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Public Engagement
- Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT
As self-publishing becomes easier and more widely accepted, more and more small museums, historical societies and individual historians are moving away from publishing their local histories through traditional presses and are, instead, DIYing their books or working with small presses or non-academic publishers. Read More
Emerging Methods & Methodologies in Public History Research
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Reflections on the Field
- Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT
Public historians are on the cutting edge of research methods. This roundtable examines emerging methodologies in research, interpretation, and narrative construction. Read More
If Everyone’s A Historian
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Public Engagement
- Reflections on the Field
- Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT
A conversation (either a roundtable or maybe a working group or possible a weirder format in which we look examples together and discuss them?) Read More