Live Webinar: Nothing About Us Without Us: Centering Equity and Education at Historic Places
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Webinar Description
After more than a year and a half of loss is your historic site bouncing back on the right foot? When the pandemic started in 2020 it forced most museums and historic sites to close. Frontline workers were furloughed or laid-off, elders and dear ones passed away and many historic sites struggled to find their footing amid both a public health crisis and waves of increasing demands for the end of discriminatory policies and practices across the sector. Some cultural heritage organizations took this time as an opportunity to critically rethink their role in local communities, test new strategies for engagement, and formally share power with communities that have always been co-stewards of public memory. Join us for a conversation about how museums and historic sites can truly become spaces for education and truth-telling through frameworks of equity.
Learning Outcomes
- Learn about the Engaging Descendants of Slavery In the Interpretation of Museums and Historic Sites Rubric and how your museum can use it to develop new frameworks for equitable collaboration with communities of color
- Explore strategies and policies for ensuring that revenue-generating events and rentals are kept accountable to the educational mission of your site
- Learn about the necessity of shared authority at today’s historic sites with examples to get you started
Details
DATE: September 2, 2021
TIME: 3:00 - 4:15 pm EASTERN (Remember to adjust for your time zone)
COST: $25 AASLH Members / $45 Nonmembers / $15 discount for STEPS participants with promo code found in the online STEPS Community
ACCESS: You will be provided with instructions on how to access the live event upon registration.
STEPS Standard
This webinar will help organizations enrolled in STEPS* address Interpretation Standard 6 (New Workbook): The institution asserts its public service role and places education at the center of that role.
*Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (STEPS) is a self-study, self-paced assessment tool designed specifically for small- to mid-sized history organizations, including volunteer-run institutions. Through a workbook, online resources, and an online community, organizations enrolled in STEPS review their policies and practices and benchmark themselves against national standards.
Recording and Captioning
We will record this event. Access the Recorded Webinar in the AASLH Resource Center after the event has passed. Registrants of this event receive complimentary access to the recording in their Dashboard.
Real-time captioning is provided for the live event. A transcript is provided with the recording.
How to Register
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Elon Cook Lee
Director of Interpretation and Education at the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Elon Cook Lee is a public historian, educator, curator, and interpreter. She became the Director of Interpretation and Education at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2019 where she leads a variety of initiatives that focus on interpreting historic spaces through frameworks of repair, and equitable collaboration with descendants of slavery, exclusion, and colonization. That work includes creating and leading a new vision for the interpretation of sites with histories of slavery and organizing convenings on interpreting slavery at historic sites throughout the Atlantic world. Before coming to the Trust, she received her bachelors from Spelman College, and both a master’s degree in Public Humanities and the Fellowship for the Study of the Public History of Slavery at Brown University.
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