Burnout Is Not the First Warning Sign in Public History Practice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

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

Public history practitioners often navigate complex narratives, community expectations, and sustained workload demands that affect long-term career sustainability. Read More

From Storage to Story: Activating School Archives for Public Engagement and Student Learning

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

School archives are often underutilized, viewed as repositories rather than active tools for public history. This session explores how school-based archives can be transformed into sites of engagement, interpretation, and community connection. Read More

From Archive to Screen: Documentary Filmmaking as Community-Centered Public History Practice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This session explores the medium of documentary filmmaking as public history practice by examining topics of community collaboration, shared authority, and institutional tension. Read More

Community‑Centered Public History: Storytelling, Access, and Ethical Practice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Recent increases in migration to the United States, particularly from crisis‑affected countries such as Syria, Sudan, and Iraq, have raised challenges related to language access and participation in public life. Read More

An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: Trauma, Silence, and Healing in Oral History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Oral History
  • Memory
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

I have an individual presentation and would like to be part of an oral history roundtable exploring the importance of oral history in elucidating and preserving marginalized historical narratives, as well as the role of oral history in healing from trauma. Read More

Holding the Line Through Story: Teaching Communities to Document Their Own History Before It Disappears

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Preservation
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

This workshop teaches storytelling as a public history practice — giving communities, particularly veterans and historically marginalized groups, a structured framework to document their own narratives before those stories are lost, flattened, or erased by institutional forces. Read More

Ignoring the Line: The View from Red States

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

Projects that challenge dominant narratives, present multiple perspectives on difficult topics, and tell the truth don’t necessarily require us to “hold the line. Read More

Staging the Archive: Theatrical Methods, Collective Imagination, and Community Care

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

This roundtable invites public historians, museum professionals, librarians, archivists, and artist-scholars to explore how theatrical methods can “hold the line” in public history under social and political pressures. Read More

Oral History Projects In and Outside the Classroom

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Oral History
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

Oral histories help connect students to the past through first-hand personal narratives, but what happens when we engage students in the process of conducting oral history interviews? Read More

Shared Authority in 2027

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museum/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Much of public history practice has been based around the concept of “shared authority,” in which public historians work in conjunction with communities to define and collaborate on historical interpretations and projects. Read More