Centering Community Voices: Exploring the Stories that Shape Us
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 – This Has Happened Before: Humanities as Democratic Resistance
Info: This Has Happened Before: The Humanities as Democratic Resistance
Historians know this playbook. When authoritarian movements rise, they target the same things: archives, libraries, universities, curriculum, public memory, and the people who ask hard questions about power. What is happening right now in the United States is not unprecedented. It has happened before, and the humanities give us the tools to recognize it, name it, and resist it.
Humanities education is not a cultural nicety. It is a survival skill for democracy. And the question before us is not only how we protect it, but how we teach and engage differently going forward.
You won’t want to miss this conversation after the conference.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 23.18
