An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: Trauma, Silence, and Healing in Oral History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Oral History
  • Memory
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

I have an individual presentation and would like to be part of an oral history roundtable exploring the importance of oral history in elucidating and preserving marginalized historical narratives, as well as the role of oral history in healing from trauma. Read More

Staging the Archive: Theatrical Methods, Collective Imagination, and Community Care

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

This roundtable invites public historians, museum professionals, librarians, archivists, and artist-scholars to explore how theatrical methods can “hold the line” in public history under social and political pressures. Read More

Shared Authority in 2027

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museum/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Much of public history practice has been based around the concept of “shared authority,” in which public historians work in conjunction with communities to define and collaborate on historical interpretations and projects. 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

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