Annual Conference
Across South Carolina we can be better prepared for future emergencies!
"Opportunities and Obligations: What is the cultural resources professional's role in documenting monuments and memorial sites?"
Join us on February 16, 2018!
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University
Reinartz Hall (in Christ Chapel, lower level)
4201 N. Main Street
Columbia, SC 29203
Campus Map
Reinartz Hall (in Christ Chapel, lower level)
4201 N. Main Street
Columbia, SC 29203
Campus Map
We will discuss the role of cultural resources professionals in documenting and preserving temporary memorial sites as well as historic monuments while navigating complex and often controversial situations. The discussion will focus on the obligations of professionals to their communities, and opportunities for engagement and education.
Registration Rates
(lunch included)
Membership Rate - $35
Non-Member Rate - $45
Member + Individual Membership - $45
Member + Institutional Membership - $55
(lunch included)
Membership Rate - $35
Non-Member Rate - $45
Member + Individual Membership - $45
Member + Institutional Membership - $55
Schedule
8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Registration and Refreshments in Reinartz Hall at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia SC
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Welcome
9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Speaker: Tracy Power, Newberry College
Presentation: "History is Not the Past but An Argument About the Past: Documenting and Interpreting Difficult History(ies) to Inform a Better Future"
Robert Tracy McKenzie has recently argued that “History is not the past but an argument about the past.” Historians of all kinds, including archivists, librarians, museum professionals, and public historians at non-profit and government institutions, local historians, genealogists, journalists, and filmmakers, are now seeing their work more discussed, more praised, and more criticized, than ever before. We have a rare opportunity and responsibility to contribute to that dialogue. This presentation features case studies of difficult history(ies) in South Carolina from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement through the historic preservation programs of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and through teaching traditional and public history in the classroom and in planning and implementing the collection, arrangement, and outreach activities of the college archives at Newberry College. It will suggest ways in which difficult histories can enhance our state and national dialogue about history and memory, inform a more honest interpretation of our collective history(ies), and perhaps help foster better understanding among us all.
10:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Moderator: Meg Moughan, City of Charleston Records Management Division
Panelists:
Elizabeth Alston, Mother Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, South Carolina
Dr. George McDaniel, Ph.D., McDaniel Consulting, Charleston, South Carolina
Carol Poplin, HW Exhibits, Charleston, South Carolina
Celeste Wiley, South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, South Carolina
Leah Worthington, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Presentation:
Presentation: "Build, Now, a Monument: Archiving the Temporary Memorial. Developing a Statewide Tragedy Response Network"
In this session, five Charleston area cultural resource professionals and Mother Emanuel’s historian will discuss the work of preserving and interpreting the Mother Emanuel memorial site. The session will open with a wider conversation about how cultural resource professionals across South Carolina might come together to create a disaster response network. Utilizing PALMCOP’s district representative model, the panelists will explore how a virtual response toolkit might be created.
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch (provided) and Business Meeting
12:45 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Sarah Calise, Middle Tennessee State University
Presentation: "Documenting the Confederacy on Campus"
Cultural resource professionals have a social responsibility to document protest movements and provide historical context. The Albert Gore Research Center, located at Middle Tennessee State University, launched a documentation strategy in September 2015 to capture the student protests against Nathan Bedford Forrest Hall, a building named after the Confederate general. The Gore Center built a publicly accessible digital collection using these collected materials and materials already housed within the archive. The Gore Center also felt responsible for educating the public on the university’s historic relationship with Confederate memory and the students who protested against it. Last fall, the archive established an initiative called Movement 68, which features public programs and educational projects centered on the past 50 years of black student activism. This presentation will discuss the strategies for documenting and preserving such controversial topics.
1:35 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Speaker: Alexia Helsley, University of South Carolina-Aiken
Presentation: "Touching History: Preserving & Experiencing Historical Connections"
Environment, development and neglect threaten the tenuous threads that connect past and present. If "what's past is prologue," what messages does the past have for 21st century historical warriors?
2:25 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Evaluating/Re-evaluating
All panel discussion
Registration and Refreshments in Reinartz Hall at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia SC
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Welcome
9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Speaker: Tracy Power, Newberry College
Presentation: "History is Not the Past but An Argument About the Past: Documenting and Interpreting Difficult History(ies) to Inform a Better Future"
Robert Tracy McKenzie has recently argued that “History is not the past but an argument about the past.” Historians of all kinds, including archivists, librarians, museum professionals, and public historians at non-profit and government institutions, local historians, genealogists, journalists, and filmmakers, are now seeing their work more discussed, more praised, and more criticized, than ever before. We have a rare opportunity and responsibility to contribute to that dialogue. This presentation features case studies of difficult history(ies) in South Carolina from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement through the historic preservation programs of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and through teaching traditional and public history in the classroom and in planning and implementing the collection, arrangement, and outreach activities of the college archives at Newberry College. It will suggest ways in which difficult histories can enhance our state and national dialogue about history and memory, inform a more honest interpretation of our collective history(ies), and perhaps help foster better understanding among us all.
10:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Moderator: Meg Moughan, City of Charleston Records Management Division
Panelists:
Elizabeth Alston, Mother Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, South Carolina
Dr. George McDaniel, Ph.D., McDaniel Consulting, Charleston, South Carolina
Carol Poplin, HW Exhibits, Charleston, South Carolina
Celeste Wiley, South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, South Carolina
Leah Worthington, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Presentation:
Presentation: "Build, Now, a Monument: Archiving the Temporary Memorial. Developing a Statewide Tragedy Response Network"
In this session, five Charleston area cultural resource professionals and Mother Emanuel’s historian will discuss the work of preserving and interpreting the Mother Emanuel memorial site. The session will open with a wider conversation about how cultural resource professionals across South Carolina might come together to create a disaster response network. Utilizing PALMCOP’s district representative model, the panelists will explore how a virtual response toolkit might be created.
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch (provided) and Business Meeting
12:45 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Sarah Calise, Middle Tennessee State University
Presentation: "Documenting the Confederacy on Campus"
Cultural resource professionals have a social responsibility to document protest movements and provide historical context. The Albert Gore Research Center, located at Middle Tennessee State University, launched a documentation strategy in September 2015 to capture the student protests against Nathan Bedford Forrest Hall, a building named after the Confederate general. The Gore Center built a publicly accessible digital collection using these collected materials and materials already housed within the archive. The Gore Center also felt responsible for educating the public on the university’s historic relationship with Confederate memory and the students who protested against it. Last fall, the archive established an initiative called Movement 68, which features public programs and educational projects centered on the past 50 years of black student activism. This presentation will discuss the strategies for documenting and preserving such controversial topics.
1:35 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Speaker: Alexia Helsley, University of South Carolina-Aiken
Presentation: "Touching History: Preserving & Experiencing Historical Connections"
Environment, development and neglect threaten the tenuous threads that connect past and present. If "what's past is prologue," what messages does the past have for 21st century historical warriors?
2:25 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Evaluating/Re-evaluating
All panel discussion