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

On The Same Team: State Historical Societies and Local Museums

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Participants
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

This roundtable would, ideally, be a mix of representatives from state historical societies and local history museums discussing how they have collaborated to improve public history in their area. Read More

Interpreter Professionalization: Public History’s Disenfranchised Front Line

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Organizing
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

When the public visits museums and historic sites, their primary conduit is often an interpreter. Read More

More Than a Field Trip: Building Interactive History Experiences that Spark Investigation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Nuts and Bolts

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

How do we move beyond scripted tours to create revolutionary learning experiences? How do we engage with necessary but challenging topics like westward conquest in an inviting, engaging field trip? Read More

Don’t Give Up the Ship! Preparing for Emergencies – Before They Happen

PROPOSAL TYPE

Experiential

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

In the revolutionary times we find ourselves facing, museums and cultural institutions must prepare in advance for the inevitable emergency that will impact our staff and guests. Read More

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

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • 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

She Spies: The Importance of Female Espionage

PROPOSAL TYPE

Experiential

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

I wish to discuss the female figures of the American Revolution that performed daring espionage activity and risked their lives to help the Continental Army win the conflict. Read More