Event Details

End: July 15, 2016
Contact: meghillm@iupui.edu
More Info: http://ncph.org/conference/2017-annual-meeting/calls-for-proposals/

Call for Proposals – “The Middle: Where did we come from? Where are we going?”
National Council on Public History Annual Meeting
Indianapolis, Indiana  |  April 19-22, 2017

The Call for Proposals is open through July 15 at http://ncph.org/conference/2017-annual-meeting/.

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) will meet in Indianapolis, Indiana from April 19-22, 2017, and we need your ideas to make this meeting a success!  If your work involves exploring history with non-academic audiences –whether through museums, historic preservation, government work, libraries and archives, tourism, cultural resources management, history education, art, digital history, community history, or something else entirely – NCPH’s annual meeting is your natural home. 

In a society fascinated by extremes, the middle is often undervalued, overlooked, and unstudied. Public historians, however, tend to engage in work that addresses the interests and concerns of the wide-ranging public, not just the select. For public historians, the middle can be a delightful but challenging place. The concerns of the masses, not just the elite; the swirling firmament of the center of a story, not only the clearness of the beginning or end; the quotidian, not the extraordinary; is always ripe with ambiguity and importance. But who controls and speaks for the middle? How one parses the middle, and who gets to tell the story, is challenging and difficult. 

Submit an early topic proposal by June 1, 2016 if you are looking for feedback or collaborators; submit a final session, working group, or workshop proposal by July 15, 2016.