If Everyone’s A Historian

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT

A conversation (either a roundtable or maybe a working group or possible a weirder format in which we look examples together and discuss them?) Read More

From Regulation to Relevance: Historic Preservation in a Changing Public Sphere

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

With the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966, the field of historic preservation was codified and formalized. Read More

Museum Labor in 2026: Revolutionizing the Way We Work

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Labor
ABSTRACT

Building on conversations started at the AASLH 2025 Conference in Cincinnati, the proposed working group will utilize the data from AASLH’s National Survey of Public History Practitioners from the perspective of museum labor. Read More

Amplifying the Field Trip Experience: Integrating Audio Recordings into On-Site and Classroom Learning

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Audio recordings offer powerful ways to connect students with history, deepen learning during field trips, and extend engagement into the classroom. Read More

Revolution in Preservation: Community Voices and BIPOC Heritage Sites

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Las Barracas, a WWII-era barracks turned Latinx farmworker housing in Boulder County, Colorado, highlights the urgent need to preserve BIPOC heritage sites. Read More

Opening the Doors: Creating Opportunities for Teachers and Museums to Collaborate in Telling History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Experiential

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

As an experienced teacher, I see the importance of taking my students on field trips.  Many kids share the commonality of never leaving the radius of their neighborhood or school, and as a result, they often lack opportunities to try new things.   Read More

Public History and Public Archaeology in West Africa: Best Practices, Challenges, and Community Narratives from the Field

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

The roundtable brings together researchers, community members, and other heritage practitioners working in and/or originating from West Africa to discuss how public history and public archaeology methodologies can be uniquely applied, adjusted, and implemented in the West African context. Read More

Female Empowerment and Climate Change Activists in the Global South

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

I would like to discuss an open access oral history digital archive titled Feminists Shifting Paradigms for Environmental Social Justice. Read More

The Unifying Power of a Historic Preservation Blog

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Ideally, historic preservation of a property should involve all relevant stakeholders, including government professionals, consultants, local residents, amateur historians, and the people who created the historic significance of the property.  Read More

African-Asian North American Relations and Public History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

I am interested in a session (roundtable or structured conversation or panel) on how public historians discuss African-Asian North American Relations.  Read More