Burnout Is Not the First Warning Sign in Public History Practice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

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

Public history practitioners often navigate complex narratives, community expectations, and sustained workload demands that affect long-term career sustainability. Read More

Ignoring the Line: The View from Red States

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Projects that challenge dominant narratives, present multiple perspectives on difficult topics, and tell the truth don’t necessarily require us to “hold the line. Read More

Oral History Projects In and Outside the Classroom

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

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

Oral histories help connect students to the past through first-hand personal narratives, but what happens when we engage students in the process of conducting oral history interviews? Read More

Ma’aminim on the Mississippi

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

In the 18th century, Prague was a hotbed of a Jewish heresy called Sabbateanism. Even after the heresy had burned itself out, its adherents and their descendants–called “Ma’aminim,” or “believers”– retained group consciousness and for the next several generations, married and socialized only amongst themselves. Read More

Rock & Roll in Nashville? Local Scenes and a National Hub

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Archives
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

Nashville jumps from local musicians, with big band pop tunes and piano boogie, to an industry town, replete with new independent studios, pressing plants, and session musicians. Read More

The Jeff-Vander-Lou Neighborhood: A Model for Resistance, Resilience and Sustainability

PROPOSAL TYPE

Community Viewpoints

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

This session focuses on the history of successful grassroots strategies which helped a neglected North City neighborhood, Jeff-Vander-Lou (JVL), survive the poverty and political mismanagement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Read More