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