Queer History Community Walking Tours as Societal Project

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Through a program of walking tours on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Close Friends Collective works to build a model of public history that prioritizes community partnership and social dialogue. Read More

Building Bridges: Innovative Educational Collaborations Between Museums and the Local Community

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

This panel will feature various projects in which museums have partnered with local community members to enhance educational experiences. Read More

Mixing it Up: Collaborative Queer Public History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

There is often strength in numbers when it comes to interpreting queer history during times of censorship, public pushback, and polarization. Read More

Conscious Editing Across Departments

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Often efforts to correct offensive terminology in archival and library materials are siloed and ad hoc – one person or a small group in one department undertake redescription efforts. Read More

Accessible NCPH

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

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

For several years, DEAI/IDEA (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion) initiatives have become more prominent, promoting inclusion for many marginalized communities. Read More

Throwing Bricks and Building Bridges: Creating Solidarity Between University-based Scholarship and Secondary Educators for LGBTQ+ History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Social Justice
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

Using our experience coordinating NEH-funded Teaching Institutes on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States, we propose a roundtable or panel to promote the benefits of partnerships and solidarity between public historians and educators at secondary and post-secondary institutions who value inclusive educational approaches and want to counter the harmful impact that current restrictive legislation and intimidation-based campaigns have on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ topics in curriculum. Read More

Interpreting the History of Firearms: A Conversation Continued

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

This session will discuss the challenges of confronting firearm history at a site like the new Coltsville National Historic Park within our modern day context of gun violence and the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision. Read More

Museums, Landlords, and Affordable Housing

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

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

Many public history institutions are sustained by an under-acknowledged source of revenue: renting and leasing residential property. Read More

Historical Urgency: Changing the Narratives About Haiti from DisEmpowering to Empowering

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

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

Haiti, created out of an enslaved African Rebellion in the French colony of Saint Domingue in 1804, evolved as an isolated state, rejected by neighbors fearing the propagation of seditious anti-slavery ideas.    Read More

Columbia Canopy Project: Addressing Structural Racism through History & Environmental Justice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

In Summer 2022, Historic Columbia (Columbia, SC) joined nature non-profit Columbia Green (Columbia, SC) on the Columbia Canopy Project. Read More