Events
The PHI runs regular events with guest speakers to talk about the practice of public history, with topics ranging from curation to historic preservation.
October 21, 2021
Co-sponsored by the Public History Initiative Join Preservation Buffalo Niagara (PBN) and local queer historian and Cornell graduate student Dr Jeff Iovannone as we explore...
October 14, 2021
Denise N Green will present on film star, fashion innovator, and businesswoman Irene Castle in this lecture organized by the Wharton Studio Museum and co-sponsored by the PHI and...
April 15, 2021
In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world Armed with rancor,...
April 1, 2021
In this talk, Sarah Seidman, Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York, will explore the complexities of museum work through a focus on...
March 24, 2021
Herb Tam, Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), will discuss his curatorial work and MOCA’s role as a social history museum in New...
February 26, 2020
Those assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women in the 18th and 19th century US and UK were described as female husbands They persisted in living as...
November 7, 2019
Amber Wiley (Rutgers University) will discuss recent case studies of national and local landmark designation that have challenged the notion of “standards” in relation to...
