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2010 KATH Conference
Political Revolutions in the United States

September 25, 2010
Bluegrass Community and Technical College
Cooper Campus

Conference Schedule

8:00 am Registration and Breakfast
  
8:50 am Opening Remarks: Rick Smoot, KATH President
Welcome: Augusta Julian, President/CEO, BCTC
  
9:00 am Keynote Address: Craig T. Friend, NCSU
"Interpreting America: Using the Memorial Landscape to Teach the Past and the Present"
  
10:00 am Break
  
10:15 am Concurrent Sessions:

  • "The Haitian Revolution: Teaching Repercussions and Legacies in the Atlantic World"
    Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
     
  • "Teaching 20th-Century Appalachia: Classroom Strategies and Resources"
    John Hennen, Morehead State University
    Tom Kiffmeyer, Morehead State University
    Rob Weise, Eastern Kentucky University
  
11:15 amBreak
  
11:30 am A Conversation Between the Creative Voices of the Kentucky Civil Rights Project, facilitated by Kim Lady Smith (former director of the Kentucky Oral History Commission)
Douglas A. Boyd, Director, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky
Catherine Fosl, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Director of the Anne Braden Institute, University of Louisville
Gregory Hardison, Director of Museum Theatre, Kentucky Historical Society
J. Blaine Hudson, Associate Professor of Pan African Studies and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville
Tracy E. K'Meyer, Associate Professor of History, University of Louisville
Arthur Rouse, Senior Producer/Director of The Media Collaboratory/Video Editing Services, Director of Kentucky Film Lab and Director of the BCTC Filmmaking Certificate Program
  
12:45 pm

Lunch and presentation: Craig T. Friend, NCSU
"Remembering Kentucke: Public Memory in Nineteenth-Century America"

Paper Prize Presentations

Business Meeting and Conclusion

 

 

 

Past Conferences:

2008-2009: "Uncovering the Mysteries of Historical Thinking: Using Research to Inform Classroom Practice"

2007-2008: "Tradition and Transforming: Teaching East History in a Global Setting"

2006-2007: "Bridging Communities of Learning: The Meaning and Purposes of History"

2005-2006: "Valor and Honor: Teaching Peace and War in a Time of Conflict"

2004-2005: "Thanks for the Memories: Examining Historical Perception"

2003-2004: "Developing a Global Perspective: Teaching American History in the Context of the World"

2002-2003: "Beyond the Basics: Tools for Historical Thinking"

2001-2002: "The Land of the Free? Civil Liberties in Times of National Crisis"

2000-2001: "Politics: Democracy is Messy Business" - Norton Center, Centre College, Danville

1999-2000: "The Pleasures of Teaching History: A Celebration of KATH's 25th Anniversary" - Kentucky History Center, Frankfort

1998-1999: "Repopulating History: Women and the Curriculum"

1997-1998: "Conversations with the Past: Doing Oral History"

 

 

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