ActiveHistory.ca Editor Krista McCracken introduces the concluding roundtable at New Directions in Active History
It has been four months since New Directions in Active History: Institutions, Communication, and Technologies concluded. The event left many of us rejuvenated and excited for the future possibilities for this project and related projects shared during the conference. In fact, both the new exhibits and features sections were developed out of ideas initially addressed at the event. We’ve also heard from many of our readers regretting their inability to attend and present their research and projects.
Over the coming months, we are planning to create a dedicated section of the site where visitors will find short blog posts of ideas presented at the conference, videos recorded during the event (which we are posting every Saturday until April), and other ideas that might not have been presented in October but fit well with the conference themes. With this announcement we’d like to put out a call for short 800-1200 word blog posts that either reflect on the conference, propose new directions for ActiveHistory.ca, or challenge our readers to critically engage with the broader ideas of active history. Submissions or inquiries can be sent to activehistory2015@gmail.com.
Christopher Moore delivering the keynote address during the pre-conference for high school and undergraduate students
If you presented a paper or poster at the conference, we have already been in touch (or will be shortly), but we’d also like this resource to expand on these discussions by including perspectives that might not have been present in October. To get a better sense of what took place at the conference, take a look at the following blog posts:
- Tom Peace, Towards an Active History
- Tom Peace and Daniel Ross, Exploring New Directions in Active History
- Beth Robertson, New Directions in Active History: A Retrospective
- Amanda Hill, New Directions in Active History
- Kaleigh Bradley, New Directions in Public History
- Pete Anderson, New Directions in Active History and the Consulting Historian
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