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DHPSNY Dialogues

DHPSNY Dialogues provide the framework and facilitation to further explore the roles of antiracism, diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice to inform the policies, practices, and systems of New York’s collecting organizations. These intimate, interactive discussions are a great way to network with like-minded colleagues and are designed for anyone who works in or volunteers for a library, archive, museum, historical society, or history/culture site in New York State.

Inspired by the AASLH Making History at 250 Field Guide and the New York State 250th Field Guide, our focus for 2024 programming revolves around building an inclusive 250th and the guiding question: "How do we make our collecting organizations interdisciplinary and representative of the realities of our many New York histories?"

2024 Dialogues follow a hybrid format, with each session kicking off with a 15-30 minute recorded teach-in, followed by an engaging 60-75 minute live conversation, hosted on Zoom. 

See below for descriptions and registration for upcoming programs.


Placemaking and Place-based Commemorations
Date:
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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This program invites participants to consider their organizations' collections, exhibits, programs, and institutional planning from a hyper local perspective, including stories from their city, village, town, hamlet and/or county alongside the perspectives of contemporary and 21st century Indigenous communities.


Pursuing Untold Stories of Everyday Experiences
Date:
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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This program invites participants to consider what it takes to pursue untold stories of everyday experiences. This program also addresses strategies to research under told, ignored and poorly documented histories, and how we can fill in the gaps of our communities’ stories. 


Changing Interpretations
Date:
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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This program invites participants to grapple with what it means to provide relevant content, exhibits, programs, and practices as we prepare to commemorate the 250th. Specifically, this program invites participants to understand their material culture and documents in new ways that allow us to evolve our interpretations and understanding of our communities’ histories, read sources against the grain, grapple with how our sources have been read differently in different eras. 


Telling Complete and Inclusive Stories
Date:
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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New York State is the home to much of the nation’s historical memory about issues and topics we still discuss and debate today, including immigration, LGBTQ+ rights and safety, segregation, incarceration, human rights, and Indigenous genocide, among other things. This program invites participants to identify revolutionary moments in our own local histories and experiences that build on topics and issues relevant to our collective past and our contemporary experiences. 


 

"Building an Inclusive 250th" - Follow Up Blog Posts (with Recordings and Resources!)


Antiracism Resources: Indigenous History is New York’s HistoryOn February 1, we inaugurated our 2024 "Building an Inclusive 250th" Dialogue series with a compelling session, An Introduction to the NYS Field Guide and Indigenous History in New York’s History.

 


Image: Cover, the New York State 250th Field Guide.

 

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