Plans with Power: Planning as a Tool to Hold the Line

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Consulting
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Planning is hard work, and too often plans either sit on the shelf or generate resentment from staff and stakeholders who see the plans as disconnected from reality. Read More

Changing Cultural Identity in American Chinatowns

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

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

From 1850 until World War II, 95% of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. were Cantonese from the Pearl River Delta near Hong Kong. Read More

Ma’aminim on the Mississippi

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Memory
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

In the 18th century, Prague was a hotbed of a Jewish heresy called Sabbateanism. Even after the heresy had burned itself out, its adherents and their descendants–called “Ma’aminim,” or “believers”– retained group consciousness and for the next several generations, married and socialized only amongst themselves. Read More

Holding the Line—or Not—at US Public Museums

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation or Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

How have museums that receive public funding held the line—or not—against vocal critics who have demanded significant changes to exhibitions at those museums? Read More

Rock & Roll in Nashville? Local Scenes and a National Hub

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Nashville jumps from local musicians, with big band pop tunes and piano boogie, to an industry town, replete with new independent studios, pressing plants, and session musicians. Read More

The Jeff-Vander-Lou Neighborhood: A Model for Resistance, Resilience and Sustainability

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

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

This session focuses on the history of successful grassroots strategies which helped a neglected North City neighborhood, Jeff-Vander-Lou (JVL), survive the poverty and political mismanagement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Read More