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TimestampEmail AddressYour NameSession NameSession Description (up to 4 sentences)Would you prefer a morning or afternoon session? We can't guarantee a particular time of day but will try to accommodate proposers' preferences.By checking the below box, I commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. I understand that if my proposal is accepted that I'm expected to offer my proposed session.Phone Number
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7/3/2025 8:15:02epetersendeitrick.museum@gmail.comElise Petersen-DeitrickFrom Hairspray to the Wire: Artistic Representations of Baltimore and Baltimorean Cultural IdentityFrom Hairspray to the Wire, or Lady in the Lake to The Corner, Baltimore has been the subject or setting of a number of artistic film, television, novel, and theater productions. To what extent have these representations shaped not only outside perceptions of Baltimore, but also cultural identity within? How do culturally-entrenched artistic representations affect real Baltimore communities? What new works of art have challenged Baltimorean politics and identity in recent years, and what role can history and heritage professionals play in the ongoing interplay between narrative storytelling and real-world Baltimore?No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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8/21/2025 14:10:35jones22@umbc.eduHannah JonesRoadblocks to the Study of the EsotericMaterials on topics such as spiritualism, parapsychology, the occult, and many non-Judeo-Christian folk religions and traditions remain as good as invisible in library catalogs due to inadequate description. As my colleagues and I work on cataloging the newly-acquired Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation Collection at UMBC, we want to make sure that we’re describing these materials in such a way that users will be able to find them. If you are a researcher, practitioner, or community member in any of these areas, I would love to hear from you about what barriers you’ve encountered and any strategies you’ve used when searching for these materials in library or archival collections.No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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8/27/2025 15:07:17tyce@heytyce.comTyce StithWhen the Mic Meets the City: How Art Spaces Become Community AnchorsWords, Wings & Wine has grown from a local showcase into a cultural gathering that captures Baltimore’s voice through poetry, music, food, and conversation. This session will explore how events like this become living archives—spaces where community memory, heritage, and artistry intersect. After a brief introduction, we’ll open the room to discuss what makes gatherings feel historic while they’re happening and how they can be sustained without losing their soul. Participants will be invited to share their own experiences of cultural spaces that shaped community history.No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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8/28/2025 14:11:18jciekot@civicworks.comJohn CiekotUncovering Clifton Mansion and ParkCivic Works, a private non-profit organization, is the operator of Clifton Mansion, the historic home at the heart of Clifton Park. We want to learn your sense of Clifton and what you are curious about.

Clifton has been part of Baltimore’s story for 225 years. Can it attract and engage visitors today? By what means do visitors take mental refreshment from an encounter with historical events and people? Do you think that recounting stories of service-to-community matter to more than a few people?

At this session, Civic Works will listen as we explore the relationship between citizens and this legacy asset. 		MorningI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/4/2025 7:37:21gnostic777@icloud.comRosia FrazierBlack Women White Spaces: Help! Advice and DiscussionMuch suppressed research underscores how Black women are treated in predominantly white spaces. We will be discussing those ill-treatments, the research that supports the conclusions, and what Black women can do to protect not only their jobs, but their mental health and peace. No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/4/2025 7:45:31gnostic777@icloud.comRosia FrazierWhat does your Black History Look Like? An Unapologetic Black History Workshop As a Black history educator, I am amazed at how little Black history visitors know and how unprepared they are to assimilate what little they do know into a moral worldview. We want to discuss this and arrive at practical conclusions that can be applied immediately. No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/4/2025 7:59:07gnostic777@icloud.comRosia FrazierMaryland Pageantry: Who Knew?We will look at the historic harms of pageantry, then discuss how Black women specifically have claimed pageantry as their own. We also look at the necessity of pageantry, particularly in education. While still exclusive, there are those of us making pageantry inclusive. No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/9/2025 17:23:50ek@fullstorybaltimore.toursEmma Katherine BilskiMaking Critical History SustainableIn today's uncertain political landscape, it can be difficult to make long-term funding plans for the kind of critical, inclusive, anti-racist public history that many of us in the Baltimore area practice. This session is intended to give critical history practitioners a chance to share ideas and best practices for finding and maintaining appropriate customer bases, grants, and other sources of funding. How do we make this necessary work sustainable, beyond one-off institutional reports and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, etc.? What kind of long-term community can this work help us to build?AfternoonI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/10/2025 17:07:30TDiaz1@umbc.eduTristan Diaz"We Found it in the Creek": The Rediscovery of the Old Baltimore Builders' Exchange Building and Rethinking Illegal Dumping in BaltimoreIt isn't every day that you find the illegally dumped remains of a historically significant building dumped in a creek, yet that is exactly the situation I found myself in standing before the 7 foot marble facade of the Old Baltimore Builders' Exchange Building in the middle of the Maiden's Choice Run. From being a center of Baltimore's construction industry, to a center of the late Woman's Suffrage Movement, the Old Baltimore Builders' Exchange building was described for decades as one of Baltimore's most prominent downtown buildings. Despite this, after the building's demolition in 1966, the Old Baltimore Builders' Exchange Building was nearly forgotten about until its rediscovery in the Maidens Choice. The real question now is where should we go from here? If you have an interest in architectural history, archeology, or illegal dumping, I would love to discuss some of the ideas that we have for where we want to take this project and work collaboratively to preserve what's left of this historic building. No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/11/2025 8:55:09conteaa@gmail.comAndrea ConteReparations for/Defending against local wars of the state
Groundbreaking access to state archives exposes the Baltimore Police Department’s conspiracy and local media’s co-optation in the war against the Baltimore Black Panther Party and the frame-up of Marshall Eddie Conway. This information was unavailable during the 1971 Panther trials of the Baltimore 21. How can newly legislated Maryland agencies charged with truth, reconciliation, and reparative justice address such cases of state terrorism by Baltimore police and federal law enforcement? When courts fail, what community and legislative pressures can move the state toward reparative action? What does COINTELPRO teach us about today’s political prisoners and ICE kidnappings in Baltimore?		MorningI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/18/2025 11:13:22ben.egerman@gmail.comBen EgermanTelling Baltimore's Queer HistoryFeaturing everything from trans horse thieves to Harlem Renaissance-era drag balls, Baltimore's LGBTQ+ history is fascinating, vibrant, unique--and almost completely untold. What can it tell us about Baltimore's broader history? How are librarians, historians, artists, preservation groups, and community members working to research, preserve, and elevate these stories? How can we work to connect this crucial part of Baltimore's past to our city's present and future?AfternoonI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/12/2025 15:05:52Ida.Jones@Morgan.eduIda JonesBlack Collections and CollectorsWhere are the artifacts, documents, photographs, works of art, and other kinds of materials that can guide robust, accurate, and pioneering narratives about the Black past? Many such objects were stewarded by historically Black institutions and cherished by African American collectors long before “Black history” was a recognized field in the mainstream academy. With an update on a project that celebrates local Black history artifacts, we aim to foster a conversation about how to cooperatively acknowledge, identify, protect, and share one of Baltimore’s most precious resources: its local collections of African American history and cultureNo preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/12/2025 15:48:22vmille23@jh.eduVe'Amber D. Miller-DyeHow Does the Public Value History: A Survey Discssion on "History, the Past, and Public Culture"The American Historical Association partnered with Fairleigh Dickinson University to develop and implement a national survey to "take America's historical pulse by assessing public perceptions of, and engagement with, the discipline of history and the past". Released this summer, the survey offers insights into how the public defines "history", where people get their history, what sources of the past are viewed as trustworthy, how much the public values historians' work, and what they want to learn about. Let's discuss some of the results together. No prior reading required! MorningI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/12/2025 16:22:32Ida.Jones@Morgan.eduIda JonesObverse and Reverse, Johns Hopkins University, 1880s and 2 Sons of the SouthThe first African American student admitted to Johns Hopkins University was a South Carolinian man, Kelly Miller. Miller gifted in mathematics, after many hurdles applied and entered Hopkins to pursue a doctorate degree in mathematics, physics and astronomy. Concurrently, a North Carolinian man, Thomas Dixon, Jr, was given a scholarship to pursue a graduate degree in history and politics. Neither Miller or Dixon graduated from Hopkins, yet their brief encounter blossomed in public and published warring ideals about the relationship between the races. In 1905 Miller wrote a lengthy open letter to Dixon on the occasion of his first and wildly fanaticized novel The Leopard Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden. Baltimore, Hopkins and the advent of new race relations were critical contributions to the 20th century. No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/16/2025 15:52:50jackson.gilman-forlini@baltimorecity.govJackson Gilman-ForliniCity Hall at 150 years Baltimore's City Hall turned 150 years old this year and continues to serve many roles: seat of power, office building, historic landmark, art gallery, and ceremonial venue.  Next year, the city will complete an 8 year, multi-million dollar restoration of the exterior. Despite its iconic status, public opinion once favored demolition of the building. In this session, the City Hall Curator and city staff will present some of the recent restoration work and ask the question: what does the building mean to you?  

(NOTE: we would like to share a few representative photos via a projector and request A/V capability.) 		No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/16/2025 17:03:10acadia.roher@gmail.comAcadia Roher, Zella Roberts, Haley Bryant, Mallory MillerBuilding solidarity in cultural heritage spacesBring your curiosity and/or experience around labor organizing to this discussion led by museum workers who are building power in their workplaces across the Chesapeake Bay region. Together, we’ll explore labor challenges and share strategies to defend labor rights and win.No preferenceI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/17/2025 8:40:35rkreizenbeck@thewalters.orgRoz KreizenbeckWhat do the 18th and 19th centuries mean to you?The Walters Art Museum is in throes of an exciting multi-year project to reinstall historic spaces with new interpretations of 18th and 19th century art. Essential to this planning are the voices of the Baltimore community, and that means YOU! In this session, we invite you to share your perspectives and insights (which will be used alongside data from teen & college focus groups and community advisory groups) to inform this upcoming installation.AfternoonI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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9/18/2025 16:48:56mer20099@yahoo.comMargaret Reichart Access in Action: Crafting a More Inclusive Baltimore Arts SceneBaltimore: The City of Accessible Arts (BCAA)—a disability-led project—presents the case for a Baltimore Accessibility Consortium that centers disabled voices to ensure that accessibility is at the forefront as museums and galleries across Baltimore plan exhibitions and events. We’ll share strategies to dismantle physical and systemic barriers, and invite disability consultants, artists, administrators, and community members to co-create a blueprint for a more inclusive arts ecosystem. Together, we’ll ask: How do we build Baltimore’s arts spaces to be accessible from the start—and sustain a commitment to ongoing inclusion?MorningI commit to attending Bmore Historic on September 19, 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
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