Burnout Is Not the First Warning Sign in Public History Practice
PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Leadership
- Labor and Economy
- Reflections on the Field
- Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT
Public history practitioners often navigate complex narratives, community expectations, and sustained workload demands that affect long-term career sustainability. Read More
Embodied Histories: Using Movement & Humour to Engage Trauma
PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Public Engagement
- Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT
What if history wasn’t just understood—but felt? This interactive session introduces embodied approaches to public history that use storytelling, humour, and simple movement to help audiences engage with difficult narratives. Read More
Holding the Line Through Story: Teaching Communities to Document Their Own History Before It Disappears
PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Leadership
- Preservation
- Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT
This workshop teaches storytelling as a public history practice — giving communities, particularly veterans and historically marginalized groups, a structured framework to document their own narratives before those stories are lost, flattened, or erased by institutional forces. Read More
Oral History Projects In and Outside the Classroom
PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Oral History
- Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT
Oral histories help connect students to the past through first-hand personal narratives, but what happens when we engage students in the process of conducting oral history interviews? Read More