Centering Community Voices: Exploring Stories that Shaped Us

Our first statewide humanities conference is happening this summer.
About this Event

Together, we will explore the humanities’ potential to promote inclusion, dialogue, and social justice through storytelling.

This summer, Maryland Humanities will bring together a diverse group of cultural workers— community members, museum professionals, service providers, public historians, educators, interpreters, students and others involved in humanities efforts and community engagement—to highlight the various programs and best practices related to storytelling taking place in the state and wider region. This includes how we document, share and collect stories broadly, from exhibition development, podcasts and media creation to oral history projects and film.

We are particularly interested in highlighting innovative ways that storytelling is being used to engage communities and promote dialogue. Storytelling is being interpreted in a very inclusive manner, from how we construct narratives, their role in the formation of community identity, how we create memory, interpreting complicated/divisive stories, how stories can be used in reconciliation and healing, etc.

Keynote Speaker: Senator Cory McCray

Breakout Session #1 (11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.)

• Panel 1: Telling Community Stories
• Panel 2: Reparative Stories
• Panel 3: Storytelling with Media

Breakout Session #1 (2:30 – 3:30 p.m.)

• Panel 4: Telling Stories with Primary Sources
• Panel 5: Sharing Stories with the Written Word
• Panel 6: Student Storytellers

Agenda

🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Breakfast & Registration
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Interactive Activities
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Breakout Sessions: Panels & Workshops (3 concurrent)
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
Plenary Session: Keynote
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Breakout Sessions: Panels & Workshops (3 concurrent)
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Closing
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Annual Meeting