Beyond Bricks & Mortar: Rethinking Sites of Cultural History
October 1, 2018 |
We are pleased to announce that we can offer Six LU AIA Creditsfor the Event
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, geographer, writer, professor at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and co-editor of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, will deliver the Keynote Address.
We will have two tracks of breakout sessions, of two panels each.
One track will be geared toward preservation professionals, and the other toward preservation advocates, community organizers, students and others.
For Professionals:
Amanda Davis, who oversees research and surveys for the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, and Jennifer Betsworth, a Preservation Specialist in the State Historic Preservation Office’s National Register Program, will take symposium attendees through the process of crafting and submitting a successful National Register nomination.
Oral historians Leyla Vural and Liz Strong, with Obden Mondesir, Oral History Associate at the Weeksville Heritage Center, will discuss methodologies and strategies for conducting and documenting an oral history.
For Advocates:
Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning Chris Neville, with independent consultant, planner and historian Kerri Culhane, will teach attendees how to determine and define cultural significance.
After significance has been determined, Nadezhda Williams, Executive Director of the King Manor Museum, and City Lore Folklorist and Bronx Music Heritage CenterCo-Artistic Director Elena Martínez, with Sarah Aponte and Anthony Stevens of the Dominican Institute, will discuss their experiences with engaging the public with culturally significant sites. This panel intends to explore how to identify what needs to be addressed in programming, and how to determine what programs work in terms of engaging the public.
Plenary Session:
The plenary session will examine two successful campaigns to identify, protect and commemorate sites of cultural history, exploring the steps to gain recognition, the unique challenges faced, and the lessons to be learned as we seek to identify and protect cultural significant sites going forward. New York Preservation Archive Project founder Anthony Wood will moderate a panel with Jay Shockley, a historian with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites project, who will address the campaign to landmark the Stonewall Inn, and Peggy King Jorde, former Special Advisor to Mayor David Dinkins, will discuss the effort to create the African Burial Ground Monument.
Tour:
An optional walking tour of Riverside Church, led by Church manager Raymond Rodriguez, will follow.
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Riverside Church |
91 Claremont Ave
New York, NY |
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hdc@hdc.org |
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