Animals and Audience: Opportunities and Obstacles for Public History in a More-than-Human World

Alison Laurence, M.I.T.

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Animals
Abstract

The “animal turn” is well established across the humanities. Public historians, too, think with and about the non-human world. Read More

Theorizing the Public

Holly Genovese, University of Texas at Austin

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory
Abstract

We hope to use the new “Theses on Theory and History” by Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder as a provocation to reflect on the relationship between critical theory and public history. Read More

Recovered Histories and the Remaking of University Campuses

Andrew Denson, Western Carolina University

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Social Justice
Abstract

This session will explore current public history projects that seek to reshape the identities of university campuses by interpreting lost or suppressed histories. Read More

Repairing Community Relationships

Leslie Leonard, Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

How can you breathe new life into a museum/historic site/program that has become stagnant or stale? Read More

Digital Humanities Lab

Abby Curtin Teare, NCPH Digital Media Group

Proposal Type

Workshop

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

The NCPH Digital Media Group is organizing the Digital Humanities Lab – a workshop that provides opportunities for collaborative learning and professional networking around digital resources, skills, and strategies for public historians and professionals working in adjacent fields (e.g. Read More

Reinterpreting Tilden

allison horrocks, national park service

Proposal Type

Working Group

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Labor and Economy
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
  • Theory
Abstract

For more than sixty years, Freeman Tilden’s Interpreting Our Heritage has been widely relied upon by many historical interpreters as a classic, benchmark text on how to work with the public. Read More

Historical Precedents for Public History Overseas: The Power of Exporting History-Making Models

Joana Arruda, Independent Historian

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Government Historians
  • Preservation
Abstract

This panel will explore past and present examples of American cultural institutions that collaborated internationally in public historical contexts. In the post-World War II period, several governmental and nongovernmental organizations such as UNESCO, ICOMOS, and the National Park Service Division of International Affairs were formed to work together on the newly constructed idea of World Heritage and offered technical assistance overseas. Read More

From War to Fire – Critical and Practical Views on Museum Interpretation and Engagement

Brian Failing, Executive Director, Aurora Regional Fire Museum

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
Abstract

Our culture is shaped by both public history and collective memory, allowing the public to interact with the past in the present. Read More

Distinguishing “historic” from just plain “old”

Michael Binder, Technical Advisor, Air Force Declassification Office

Proposal Type

Open for discussion/debate

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Government Historians
  • Material Culture
  • Preservation
Abstract

Government historians cannot save everything, be it historical documents or an old building, but they are often called upon to separate the historic “wheat” from the just plain old “chaff.”  Read More

When History Isn’t Optional

Michael Binder, Technical Advisor, Air Force Declassification Office

Proposal Type

Open for discussion/debate

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest

Related Topics

  • Government Historians
Abstract

While Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches have documented their activities over centuries,  compiling their voluminous history is permissive and could be halted at any time.  Read More