Sessions Thursday/friday Thursday, April 19 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Cos t $ 2 5
Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall Enjoy drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and a chance to meet with friends while browsing the exhibits. Items in the OAH Silent Auction will be displayed so you can check out the deals before bids open on Friday, April 20. Winning bids will be announced during the OAH Awards Ceremony on Saturday. The reception is a great opportunity to visit and talk with exhibitor representatives and connect with old or new friends before dinner at one of Milwaukee’s many restaurants. Sponsored by Ox ford Univer sity Press
Friday, April 20 8:00 am OAH Community College Workshop • June Klees, Bay College • Steven Lawson, Rutgers University • Maryellen H. McVicker, Moberly Area Community College • J ennifer Ross-Nazzal, NASA Johnson Space Center
History Office
Working Group: Imagining New Careers in History F acilitators : • Seth Bruggeman, Temple University • William Walker, State University of New
NCPH First-Time Attendee New Member Breakfast
York, Oneonta
D iscussants : • Nancy Austin, Scholar, Artist, and Public History Activist • Michael Binder, State University of New York, Oneonta • Nick Blackbourn, The University of St. Andrews • A ngi Fuller Wildt, University of South Carolina • Julie Golia, Columbia University • Cindy Karelis, West Virginia University • Mitchell Koffman, independent historian • Jay Martin, Museum of Cultural and Natural History at
Central Michigan University
• A nn McCleary, University of West Georgia • A nne Parsons, University of Illinois at Chicago • A ndy Wilhide, University of Minnesota
Workshop: Oral History: A Tool for Research, A Tool for Life F acilitators : • Troy Reeves, University of Wisconsin–Madison • Megan Falater, University of Wisconsin–Madison • Stephen Kercher, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
and Director, Black Thursday Oral History Project • Mike Lawler, Co-Founder Wisconsin Story Project • J ames Leary, University of Wisconsin–Madison • Charles Lee, Oral History Program Director, University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse • John Mann, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire • Linda Mittlestadt, History Center and Archives, Ashland, Wisconsin S p o n s o r e d b y t h e OA H C o m m i t t e e o n P u b l i c H i s t o r y
60 • 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting • Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Join the Membership Committee and other first-time conference attendees and new members for conversation and a plated breakfast. This is a great way to meet new and old members of the organization and to learn more about NCPH, the conference, and the field of public history. Cosponsored by American Univer sity and the NCPH Membership Committee.
NCPH Public History Educators Breakfast Cos t : $ 2 5
This annual event is an opportunity for faculty to share ideas about running graduate and undergraduate public history programs and to talk about university, departmental, and a wide variety of other issues. The discussion is always lively. A plated breakfast will be served. Sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center at B r o w n U n i v e r s i t y.
Friday, April 20 8:30 am Whose Civil Rights Stories on the Web? Authorship, Ownership, Access, and Content in Digital History This session is part of a thread on civil rights and digital history with the Wisconsin Black Historical Society tour and the Omeka overview session, scheduled for Friday at 10:30 am. C hair :
Jack Dougherty, Trinity College (CT) March on Milwaukee: Creating a Local Civil Rights Digital Archive Jasmine Alinder, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Omeka for Collecting Stories with Local Communities Sheila Brennan, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project Thomas Ikeda, Densho The Bracero History Archive Peter Liebhold, National Museum of American History On the Line: a Web-Book on Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Candace Simpson, Trinity College (CT) S p o n s o r e d b y t h e L a b o r a n d Wo r k i n g - C l a s s Histor y Association