About the event
The Public History Collective is excited to host its first conference, where we ask: What does it mean for places, objects, people, and stories to have afterlives? How can we restore histories that have been lost? Practitioners from every walk of the field will present on ways they’ve revived history.
Free and open to the public. Please register here.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
9:30-10:00: Registration. Room 9205/9206
10:15-10:30: Opening Remarks. Room 9205/9206
Andrew Robertson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
10:45-11:45: Reaching New Audiences, Repurposing Old Materials. Room 9205/9206
Quinn Berkman and Michael Lorenzini, NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Municipal Archives and Library
10:45-11:45: Freedom for One, Freedom for All? Recasting Narratives of Abolition and Suffrage in K-12 Education. Skylight Room
Emily Potter-Ndiaye, Brooklyn Historical Society
Franny Kent, Museum of the City of New York
EY Zipris, Museum of the City of New York
12:00-1:00: Place and Remembrance. Skylight Room
Sarah Pearlman Shapiro, Columbia University
Jennifer Young, New York University
Scott Zukowski, Stony Brook University
12:00-1:00: Personal Journeys Through Public History. Room 9205/9206
Yuliya Barycheuskaya, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Katharine Rovanpera, La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez / Museum of Modern Art
Rozanne Gooding Silverwood, Columbia University
1:15-2:00: Lunch. Room 5114
2:15-3:15: Panel: Resurrecting Local Public History at the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground. Room 5414
Moderator: Johnathan Thayer, Queens College, CUNY
Lori Wallach, Queens Memory
Regina Carra, Queens College, CUNY
Jeffrey Delgado, Queens College, CUNY
Cristina Fontánez, Queens College, CUNY
Rudy Hartmann, Queens College, CUNY
Robbie Garrison, Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy
2:15-3:15: The Afterlives of Victoria Confino: First Person Interpretation at the Tenement Museum and Beyond. Room 9205/9206
Jessica Underwood Varma, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum / Global Shift
Sarah Litvin, The Graduate Center, CUNY / New York Historical Society
Elly Berke, Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston
3:30-5:00: Engaging Guided Tours: Techniques and Best Practices. Room 9205/9206
Cindy VandenBosch and Andrew Gustafson, Turnstile Tours
5:00: Closing Remarks. Room 9205/9206
Katie Uva and Arinn Amer, The Graduate Center, CUNY
5:15: Reception. Room 5114
This event is presented as part of Narrating Change, Changing Narratives, an interdisciplinary research group that employs public humanities practices and explores narration as a guide for social change. The group is supported by the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research.
The CUNY Public History Collective is a Center for the Humanities working group committed to bridging the worlds of academia and public history by increasing graduate student participation in archives, museums, and other public history institutions and projects in order to broaden the methods we use to teach and do academic work. For more information or to join the working group, email [email protected]
Cosponsored by the Mediating the Archive Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research and the PhD Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
