Uncomfortable History and Challenging Collective Memory in Community Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

In 1995, a local history buff in Hamilton County, Indiana discovered and donated a trunk full of records from the local 1920s Ku Klux Klan chapter in a barn. Read More

The Holocaust and Genocide: Proving Atrocities

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

I would like to present on the historical urgency faced during and immediately after atrocities are committed, by focusing on the Holocaust specifically and other recent genocides more generally. Read More

Collaboratively Building Digital Collections

PROPOSAL TYPE

Individual

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

Digital collections are not new. However, archives are rethinking the creation of digital collections—including subjects, workflows, and workforce—after disruptions to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic affected engagement with physical materials and increased interest in the history of minority groups in local communities following the Black Lives Matter movement. Read More

Columbia Canopy Project: Addressing Structural Racism through History & Environmental Justice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

In Summer 2022, Historic Columbia (Columbia, SC) joined nature non-profit Columbia Green (Columbia, SC) on the Columbia Canopy Project. Read More

Re-envisioning 250 Years

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This structured conversation is meant to explore ideas together for exhibitions related to the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Read More

Who makes Utah’s past?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

This panel considers issues of inclusion and representation when considering the history of the state of Utah. The session asks who should be the custodians of Utah’s past, and who should they include in its history. Read More

Collecting memories that tackle our urgent issues now

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

No matter how young or old the person is, recollecting their past experiences may elicit valuable insight into currently ongoing, urgent issues. Read More

Local Monuments and Memorials and the Urgency of Representing Sites of Mass Atrocity Crimes

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Oral History
  • Monuments and Memorials
ABSTRACT

This structured conversation will address the role of monuments in interpreting and using the memory of large-scale mass atrocity crimes through short case studies. Read More

Space for Slowness: Time and Labor in Public History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Consulting
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

As public historians, how might we use our understandings of different time scales to make space for the difficult-to-quantify work of public history? Read More

Public History Work is Women’s Work

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel or Roundtable

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

In this session we would like to have either a series of presentations or a structured conversation around how the history of public history is women’s history. Read More