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

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Roundtable

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  • 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

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Roundtable

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  • 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

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Roundtable

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  • 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

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Structured Conversation

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  • 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

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Community Viewpoints

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
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  • 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

Working Group on Sharing Best Practices and Challenges of Institutional Slavery Reckoning Projects

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Working Group

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

Over the past decade, many museums, universities, churches, and cities have launched projects to explore and reckon with their histories of slavery. Read More

Descendants Illuminate the Unfinished Work of Revolution

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Experiential

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

As descendants of the family of William Whipple, a signer of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, and of Prince Whipple, an African he enslaved who co-signed the 1779 Petition for Freedom, we facilitate a juxtaposition of primary and secondary sources and spaces of our ancestors to illuminate both existing challenges and promising practices to strengthen public history. Read More

Revolutionary Displays? Museums, Violence, and the Struggle Against Indifference

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Roundtable

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

On April 23, 2025, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan opened Documenting the Crime: Eyewitness Records of the Armenian Genocide, a temporary exhibition drawing on testimonies from diplomats, missionaries, journalists, and relief workers. Read More

Protests: Radium Girls Changing the Work Force

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Labor and Organizing
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Women have historically been silenced in their efforts creating equality. A specific group of working class women fell victim to corporate greed and corruption and decided enough was enough. Read More

Contested Heritage in the Era of Trumpism 2.0

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Roundtable

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

We invite scholars, practitioners, and community members to join a session exploring the politics of memory and public history amid escalating culture wars, censorship, and reactionary policymaking. Read More