Hidden Costs of History

Julie Hawks, Doctoral Student, American University

Proposal Type

Panel

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  •  Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

History museums that portray war tend to focus on brave soldiers and technology without problematizing battle scenarios or revealing how people and environments are adversely affected. Read More

Streamlining and Automating Metadata Creation for Digital Projects

Jane Davis, Vice President of Access and Digital Services, Linda Hall Library

Proposal Type

Workshop

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Science and Tech
Abstract

This hands-on workshop will demonstrate free or under-utilized tools to automate or streamline metadata creation for digital projects.  Read More

Disability in Public: Creating Accessible and Community-Engaged Virtual and Physical Exhibits on the History of Disability

Beth Robertson, Research Associate / Sessional Lecturer, Carleton University

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

This roundtable seeks to stimulate dialogue between public historians, activists and academics invested in and with past experience in researching, designing and developing virtual and physical exhibits on the history of disability that are both accessible and built upon strong community engagement. Read More

Death and Display, Bodies and Boundaries

Katie Stringer Clary, Public History Instructor

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

This roundtable explores the ethics, public reactions, and responsibilities of public historians in the display and exhibition of human remains. Read More

Relitigating Civil Rights: Social Justice, Public History, and the Law

Erin Devlin, Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Consulting
  • Memory
Abstract

A celebratory public history of the civil rights movement– which casts racial injustice as a relic of the past– has been deployed in federal courts to rollback oversight of school desegregation, voter registration, and to legitimize police brutality and mass incarceration. Read More

Making the Inaccessible Accessible

Jamie Melissa Wilms, Director of Education, Molly Brown House Museum

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
Abstract

The Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, CO is currently striving to make it’s 120+ year old home accessible to all.  Read More

Sanctuary Communities: Answering to a Higher Law

Anne Salsich, Associate Archivist, Oberlin College Archives

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Inclusion
Abstract

In 2017, local and state entities have declared themselves sanctuary communities for immigrants that are targets of the Trump administration’s inherently divisive policy to remove or bar non-citizens from the U.S. Read More

History, Universities, and Community Relations

Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  •  Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Memory
Abstract

Universities intersect with multiple communities both within and outside of the physical space they occupy.  Students do not leave their concerns outside the institutional gates.  Read More

Gender in Public History: Using Public History to tell Untold or Forgotten Stories

Sara Sanders, Student Member

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Inclusion
  • Memory
  • Theory
Abstract

In 1956 20,000 women of all races gathered in Pretoria to demand that Pass Laws not be extended to women. Read More

Public History for Undergraduates: Local history, preservation, and hands-on learning

Donna Donald, Assistant Professor, Liberty University

Proposal Type
  • Panel
Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Preservation
  • Teaching
Abstract

To share successes and failures in the process of launching our first public history offerings, a few introductory classes for undergraduates. Read More