NCPH to meet in Portland, OR on March 12
History at work in the world. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the National Council on Public History will be meeting in Portland next week. Adam Hochschild, nominated for the National Book Award, will be the conference’s keynote speaker in a free, public event, “Adventures in Public History,” at the Hilton Portland, Friday, March 12, at 8:00 p.m. Public history is a booming profession in which historical research and interpretation are made with and useful to the public, typically outside of the classroom. This conference is an opportunity to explore how public history is merging with the growing interest in civic engagement.
NCPH’s 2010 Annual Meeting, “Currents of Change,” is a joint conference with the American Society for Environmental History. Over 1,200 participants are expected for more than 150 sessions and working groups, 10 fieldtrips, Speed Networking, book exhibits, Consultants Reception, and other events. The full conference program is available at the NCPH website, www.ncph.org. Of special note this year are the floating seminar boat excursion, Speed Networking for new professionals, NCPH’s 30th Anniversary Reception, and professional development workshops on digital history. All are welcome to come see what the 21st-century intersection of public and environmental history looks like.
Keynote speaker, Adam Hochschild, is an award-winning author and journalist who uses history to reveal the lingering inequities of the past. His address, “Adventures in Public History,” is open to the public. Hochschild’s most recent book, Bury the Chains, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, and his Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994) is a deeply moving exploration of history and memory shortly after the end of the Cold War. It was primarily because of King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998), which brought to light the horrors of Belgian colonial rule in the Congo, that the leading historical organization in the United States, the American Historical Association, awarded Hochschild the 2009 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Prize. According to the AHA, “Hochschild’s book triggered the first open national discussion of imperial injustices and eventually spurred other investigations and led to an official apology being tendered by the Belgian government, underlining the quiet power that a well-researched and well-written story text could exert in the public sphere.” Hochschild has been a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” and a co-founder of and editor and writer at Mother Jones magazine.
Founded in 1980, NCPH is a national nonprofit advancing the field of public history, promoting professionalism among history practitioners and encouraging their engagement with the public. It is a membership association of consultants, museum professionals, government historians, professors & students, archivists, teachers, cultural resource managers, curators, film & media producers, historical interpreters, policy advisors, and many others. Members confer at the annual meeting each spring and share their expertise in a scholarly journal, The Public Historian, in a quarterly newsletter, and in multiple online formats. Learn more at http://www.ncph.org.
For more inform
John Dichtl, Executive Director
Tel. (317) 272-7142, Fax (317) 278-5230
March 3, 2010
National Council on Public History Annual Conference, with Adam Hochschild as Keynote Speaker, in Portland.
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NCPH’s 2010 Annual Meeting, “Currents of Change,” is a joint conference with the American Society for Environmental History. Over 1,200 participants are expected for more than 150 sessions and working groups, 10 fieldtrips, Speed Networking, book exhibits, Consultants Reception, and other events. The full conference program is available at the NCPH website, www.ncph.org. Of special note this year are the floating seminar boat excursion, Speed Networking for new professionals, NCPH’s 30th Anniversary Reception, and professional development workshops on digital history. All are welcome to come see what the 21st-century intersection of public and environmental history looks like.
Keynote speaker, Adam Hochschild, is an award-winning author and journalist who uses history to reveal the lingering inequities of the past. His address, “Adventures in Public History,” is open to the public. Hochschild’s most recent book, Bury the Chains, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, and his Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994) is a deeply moving exploration of history and memory shortly after the end of the Cold War. It was primarily because of King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998), which brought to light the horrors of Belgian colonial rule in the Congo, that the leading historical organization in the United States, the American Historical Association, awarded Hochschild the 2009 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Prize. According to the AHA, “Hochschild’s book triggered the first open national discussion of imperial injustices and eventually spurred other investigations and led to an official apology being tendered by the Belgian government, underlining the quiet power that a well-researched and well-written story text could exert in the public sphere.” Hochschild has been a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” and a co-founder of and editor and writer at Mother Jones magazine.
Founded in 1980, NCPH is a national nonprofit advancing the field of public history, promoting professionalism among history practitioners and encouraging their engagement with the public. It is a membership association of consultants, museum professionals, government historians, professors & students, archivists, teachers, cultural resource managers, curators, film & media producers, historical interpreters, policy advisors, and many others. Members confer at the annual meeting each spring and share their expertise in a scholarly journal, The Public Historian, in a quarterly newsletter, and in multiple online formats. Learn more at http://www.ncph.org.
For more inform
John Dichtl, Executive Director
Tel. (317) 272-7142, Fax (317) 278-5230
March 3, 2010
National Council on Public History Annual Conference, with Adam Hochschild as Keynote Speaker, in Portland.