Afterlives: Place, Memory, Story Fri, Oct 28, 2016 | 9:00 AM - 06:00 PM The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave. Rooms 9205/9206 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.<https://goo.gl/forms/uGicevSRGSCfFbdI3> More info: http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/afterlives-place-memory-st... 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<http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/public-engagement/seminars/narrating-change>, 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<http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/public-engagement/working-groups/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 ch@gc.cuny.edu<mailto:ch@gc.cuny.edu> Cosponsored by the Mediating the Archive Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research and the PhD Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY