Revolutionary Displays? Museums, Violence, and the Struggle Against Indifference

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

On April 23, 2025, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan opened Documenting the Crime: Eyewitness Records of the Armenian Genocide, a temporary exhibition drawing on testimonies from diplomats, missionaries, journalists, and relief workers. Read More

Interpreter Professionalization: Public History’s Disenfranchised Front Line

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Organizing
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

When the public visits museums and historic sites, their primary conduit is often an interpreter. Read More

Culture on the Coast: Flooding and History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

The Committee of Environmental Sustainability (NCPH) and its counterpart with AASLH are interested in gathering a round table of organizations, local to Rhode Island or the region, to explore the impact of sea rise of historic resources and older neighborhoods, and more critically, what some resilience strategies might be. Read More

Out of the Archives: Innovative Methods for Sharing LGBTQIA+ Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable or Lightning Round

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
ABSTRACT

This session aims to examine creative methods for sharing LGBTQIA+ history that utilizing growing networks of community and/or museum-based LGBTQIA+ archives. Read More

More Than a Field Trip: Building Interactive History Experiences that Spark Investigation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Nuts and Bolts

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

How do we move beyond scripted tours to create revolutionary learning experiences? How do we engage with necessary but challenging topics like westward conquest in an inviting, engaging field trip? Read More

Collaborating in Crisis: Applied and Academic Public Historians in Conversation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

The current U.S. presidential administration is determined to usher in a “revolution” in historical thinking and presentation. Read More

What is Reenactment?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT

This proposal seeks to help answer the question ‘what is reenactment?’ It does this by investigating past meanings of the word. Read More

Starting with Stories: Building Exhibits in Reverse

PROPOSAL TYPE

Experiential

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Revolution reshapes societies, but how we document, preserve, and interpret its impact shapes collective memory. This presentation explores “reverse exhibit development,” using oral history as the foundation rather than the frame. Read More

Protests: Radium Girls Changing the Work Force

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Labor and Organizing
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Women have historically been silenced in their efforts creating equality. A specific group of working class women fell victim to corporate greed and corruption and decided enough was enough. Read More

Radio That Listens to You

PROPOSAL TYPE

Open to Feedback

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Material Culture
  • Museums
  • Oral History
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

In 1973, Springfield was only one of four state capitals without a public radio station. WSSR went on the air January 3rd, 1975. Read More