Playing around with Interpretation

Meighen Katz, Lovell Chen (Architects and Heritage Consultants)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Place
  • Public engagement
  • Reflections on the field
ABSTRACT

How might encouraging visitors to a museum or public history site to play become part of an interpretive strategy?  Read More

On Her Own: Recognising and interpreting the experiences of single women

Meighen Katz, Lovell Chen (Architects and Heritage Consultants)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

One of the conversations to arise from the #MeToo/#It’sTime discourses has been the frequency with which empathy for women is framed in terms of their relationship to others, for example, “she is someone’s daughter”. Read More

Family Stories

Emily Keyes, Know History Inc.

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Storytelling
ABSTRACT

This panel will explore the ways people create family narratives and what happens when well-established narratives are challenged. Read More

And you may ask yourself “Where did religion go?”

Wendy Soltz, Ball State University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This proposal invites participants to engage in a presentation and conversation about the changing nature of religious landscapes and the effects of these changes on the local communities, the historical record, and the built environment. Read More

Empowering Voices: Social and Community Centered Metadata

Jessica BrodeFrank, adler planetarium

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Data/Information Management
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

As social-justice movements challenge power-structures, the ways in which public historians and cultural institutions create expert knowledge are also under scrutiny. Instead of using traditional top-down approaches to cataloguing, public historians and cultural institutions should be actively co-creating object metadata and research with the public. Read More

Maximizing Divergent Voices for Community Engagement

James Newberry, Kennesaw State University Department of museums, archives, and rare books

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Museums/exhibits
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

Staff members in the Kennesaw State University Department of Museums, Archives and Rare Books (MARB) will share their experiences developing community exhibit projects and facilitating collections development and community engagement for diverse stakeholders and audiences. Read More

Town and Gown: Building Successful Community Ties

Katie clary, coastal carolina university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/exhibits
  • Public engagement
  • Social Justice
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

The conversation/roundtable/panel will provide case studies of successful (or learning experiences!) partnerships between colleges and universities and their communities. Read More

Reimagining Religious Heritage and Indigenous Visibility in the Great Lakes

Sean Jacobson, Loyola University Chicago

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

The Great Lakes region holds rich resources in both Indigenous/First Nations history and North American religious heritage. Read More

Re-imagining Our Work: Sharing Authority & Better Public History

Mariaelena Dibenigno, william & mary’s highland

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

We plan to present on community-centered initiatives at historic sites facilitated and/or operated by colleges and universities. Read More

Preservation Beyond Property: Radical Alternatives to Preservation Praxis

BRIAN WHETSTONE, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This proposal seeks concrete alternatives to preservation practice that transcend the limitations of historic preservation’s entanglement with private property ownership. Read More