Unceded Memory: A First Nations Memorial of Loss and Recuperation on Stage

lAURIE aRNOLD, gONZAGA UNIVERSITY

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation or Traditional Panel

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

In 1910, fourteen chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan, and Couteau (Thompson) Nations prepared a letter, characterized as a “memorial,” for Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s visit to their homelands. Read More

Digital Public History on a Tiny Budget

Michael Yee, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum

PROPOSAL TYPE

Collaborative Conversation or Workshop

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This workshop/collaborative conversation highlights digital history techniques for public historians at a low to no-cost budget. Read More

The #StopAAPIHate movement: Public History Challenges and Opportunities

Michael Yee, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum

PROPOSAL TYPE

Collaborative Conversation or Working Group

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

How can public historians respond to the surge in Anti-Asian hate?  Read More

What’s in a Name: Confronting Inequity in Commemorative Landscapes

Caitlyn Jones, University of Houston

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Across the United States, statues and monuments have been thrown into question. Read More

Preserving Memory, Protecting Privacy: Challenges and Successes in Creating Meaningful Public Spaces in Digital Environments

Sarah Scarlett, Michigan Technological university

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Data/Information Management
ABSTRACT

Public historians using online digital or spatial platforms to engage communities with the shared histories of a particular space are encountering new ethical questions and elevated anxiety levels about privacy. Read More

Public History for the Public, by the Public: An Exploration of Government-funded Public History Programs

Brandi Burns, Boise City Dept. of Arts and History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Collaborative Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Government Historians
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Government historians form a fascinating sphere of the public history field. Read More

Revolutionary Houses / Revolutionary Narratives: Working Towards America’s 250th Anniversary

Amy Speckart, independent scholar

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

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

This panel will convene contemporary voices working to examine and change narratives about Revolutionary Era historic houses broadly conceived around the Atlantic world, circa 1750-1830. Read More

Reconciliation & Contested Commemoration

Taylor Chadwick Noakes, Duquesne University

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Contested commemoration
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

Moving a commemorative stone on the McGill University campus was done in the spirit of reconciliation and meant to make Indigenous history more visible. Read More

Cursive Writing Disappearance Impact & Solutions

Paul C. Thistle, Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre (retired)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Teaching and Training
  • Archives
ABSTRACT

Given that a significant proportion of archival holdings accessioned to date are in cursive handwriting format, has anyone at all begun thinking about, or planning for, the disappearance of the ability of future researchers to read cursive handwriting—to say nothing about new generations of archives staff? Read More

Improving Sustainability of Public History Careers

Paul C. Thistle, Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre (retired)

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

Seeking
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Three major surveys 10 years apart of working Canadians with ‘knowledge worker’ characteristics similar to public historians found stress levels had increased and life satisfaction declined among the full-time employed. Read More