Collaboration and the Work of Revolution: University and Community Partnerships in the Age of Executive Order 14253

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Social Justice
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

My partner, John Marks, curator at Historic Geneva, and I will discuss lessons learned from an ongoing collaboration in which my Critical Museum Studies undergraduate class creates an exhibit for Historic Geneva, a small history museum. Read More

Revolution in Preservation: Community Voices and BIPOC Heritage Sites

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Roundtable

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  • 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

The Incomplete History of Feminist Activism: An Exploration of the Battered Women’s Movement in California, 1945-1994

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Although historians have written about a wide range of United States feminist movements, including the anti-rape and reproductive rights movements, little has been written about the origins and developments of the battered women’s movement. Read More

Lessons From the Pauper Graves: The Journey to Memorialize Irish Immigrant Workers Buried in Pauper Graves at 10,200 Feet.

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Individual

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Last September, the Leadville Irish Memorial was unveiled, funded mostly by the Irish government and  featuring the names of over 1300 mostly immigrants.  Read More

Female Empowerment and Climate Change Activists in the Global South

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Roundtable

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  • 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

African-Asian North American Relations and Public History

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Roundtable

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  • 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

Tracing the Public History of Queer Representation

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

The Gay Liberation Movement (1963–1980) had many aims, one of which included recovering and documenting a history of sexual and gender variance. Initially, this work was done through LGBTQ+ community-based organizing. Read More

Reckoning with Outdated Exhibit Content

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Traditional Panel

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

In the past, Saskatchewan’s Western Development Museum (WDM) focused on creating new exhibits rather than updating old ones. Read More

Best and Worst Practices in Descendant Engagement

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums
  • Oral History
  • Place
ABSTRACT

Descendant Engagement has become a buzzword throughout the museum field. There are established best practices, such as the 2018 “Engaging descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museum Sites rubric, published by The James Madison Montpelier Foundation, which can be a guiding force, however, it is also important to know what NOT to do. Read More

Labors of Love and Organizing for Solidarity Within, Across, and Beyond the Cultural Industries

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Economy
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This roundtable brings together practitioners and researchers immersed in contemporary labor organizing activities in the creative industries in the US and Canada, including art museums, the public history sector, digital media, libraries, and more. Read More