SUMMARY OF SESSIONS:
Cultural Resource Stewardship
Monday, Sept 11
C-01 -- We are They and They are We: The Dotted Line Between Parks and Communities -- Two Models -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 280; Summary: Local constituents increase our knowledge and expertise, improve our ability to make good management decisions, and inspire new leadership. Two models show how we can protect resources on both sides of the boundary while energizing staff and communities.
C-02a -- Authenticity: Real -- or 'So What?' -- (Continues to Session C-02b); Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 276; Summary: The NPS prides itself on authenticity, but is authenticity all it is cracked up to be? Can a reproduction or an interpretation be just as (or even more) appealing to the public? Are we overly concerned about the wrong thing?
C-02b -- Authenticity: Real -- or 'So What?' -- (Continued from Session C-02a); Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 276; Summary: The NPS prides itself on authenticity, but is authenticity all it is cracked up to be? Can a reproduction or an interpretation be just as (or even more) appealing to the public? Are we overly concerned about the wrong thing?
C-03r -- Widening the Circle: Cultural Bias in America's Historic Preservation Public Policy -- Will It Still Work in the 21st Century? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: Can 30+ year-old NPS historic preservation policies and practices adequately capture the important material culture of all our citizens, particularly as U.S. demographics and our sense of what is historically significant changes? (Repeated as C-04r)
C-04r -- Widening the Circle: Cultural Bias in America's Historic Preservation Public Policy -- Will It Still Work in the 21st Century? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 40; Summary: Can 30+ year-old NPS historic preservation policies and practices adequately capture the important material culture of all our citizens, particularly as U.S. demographics and our sense of what is historically significant changes? (Repeated as C-03r)
C-05 -- Preservation Technology: Is 'Mortar Mashing' Our True Mission? Was it Ever? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: What is the National Park Services role (leader, researcher, facilitator, or consumer) in the development of specific historic preservation, material conservation technologies? Can we (should we) be the leaders we were 30 years ago?
C-06a -- 'But It Only Seems Like Yesterday!' Is the National Park Service Providing the Right Leadership in Preserving the Recent Past? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 40; Summary: NPS managers and CRM professionals are faced with evaluating and preserving properties outside the realm of what we have traditionally considered to be "historic." How do we identify and preserve the best and most meaningful remnants of the new past?
C-06b -- Using Historic Preservation to Promote Urban Vitality -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 40; Summary: This bus tour will include discussions enroute and stops to disembark and see historic places in downtown St. Louis to examine challenges faced by and benefits offered through the presence of the NPS and the use of NPS partnership programs.
C-07 -- Investing in Wisdom -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: How has scholarship shaped the National Park System? Are our decisions based upon adequate and defensible scholarship? Scholarship often doesnt make the jump to interpretation in NPS practice. How do we ensure all this is better folded together?
C-08r -- 'Just the Facts Ma'am': Why is Context So Controversial? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 280; Summary: The preservation and interpretation of the past in public places has become an acrimonious cultural battleground. What is the role of the National Park Service in explaining contentious historic events? (Repeated as C-09r)
C-09r -- 'Just the Facts Ma'am': Why is Context So Controversial? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 280; Summary: The preservation and interpretation of the past in public places has become an acrimonious cultural battleground. What is the role of the National Park Service in explaining contentious historic events? (Repeated as C-08r)
C-10r -- Natural/Cultural -- Nature/Human History: Is It All One? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 280; Summary: Explore various management decisions and philosophies on what has become two separate tracks of resource management -- natural and cultural -- and how we might better manage all resources by converging the two. (Repeated as C-11r)
C-11r -- Natural/Cultural -- Nature/Human History: Is It All One? -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 280; Summary: Explore various management decisions and philosophies on what has become two separate tracks of resource management -- natural and cultural -- and how we might better manage all resources by converging the two. (Repeated as C-10r)
C-12 -- Do We Need Knowledge If We Have Technology? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: Has the revolution in education technology and distance learning eliminated the need for interpretive specialists in parks? Do we need interpreters when virtual presentations have higher production values for people with decreasing attention spans?
C-13 -- Small Parks with Big Ideas: Helping Underserved Communities 'Own' Their Own Culture -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 70; Summary: Small parks in the Intermountain Region have reached out to diverse community-based groups in Denver by sponsoring "culture campers." Can this model be replicated elsewhere?
C-14 -- Places of the Spirit: Can Sacred Sites Survive Our Good Intentions? -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 280; Summary: Historic preservationists must actively consider the possibility that what they do to save a sacred place in the name of historic preservation might have just the opposite effect from the perspective of those who treasure it.
C-15r -- Evolving the National Park: Mutations in the Management Model -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 64; Summary: The Service must become comfortable and adept with, and accommodating of a broad range of management models for places where we have responsibility but not necessarily ownership. (Repeated as C-16r and C-17r)
C-16r -- Evolving the National Park: Mutations in the Management Model -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 72; Summary: The Service must become comfortable and adept with, and accommodating of a broad range of management models for places where we have responsibility but not necessarily ownership. (Repeated as C-15r and C-17r)
C-17r -- Evolving the National Park: Mutations in the Management Model -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 72; Summary: The Service must become comfortable and adept with, and accommodating of a broad range of management models for places where we have responsibility but not necessarily ownership. (Repeated as C-15r and C-16r)
C-18r -- Sprawl and Local Conservation: Is it Worth Our Time? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 70; Summary: Can robust, close-to-home preservation, recreation development, and land conservation activities ultimately develop stronger constituencies for national preservation and land and water conservation efforts? (Repeated as C-19r and C-20r)
C-19r -- Sprawl and Local Conservation: Is it Worth Our Time? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 70; Summary: Can robust, close-to-home preservation, recreation development, and land conservation activities ultimately develop stronger constituencies for national preservation and land and water conservation efforts? (Repeated as C-18r and C-20r)
C-20r -- Sprawl and Local Conservation: Is it Worth Our Time? -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 70; Summary: Can robust, close-to-home preservation, recreation development, and land conservation activities ultimately develop stronger constituencies for national preservation and land and water conservation efforts? (Repeated as C-18r and C-19r)
C-21 -- Experience Your America: The Message Project -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 280; Summary: This session discusses the results of the Message Project and efforts to implement its recommendations across the Service, focusing on the experience of seven "pilot parks" that are receiving intensive project assistance.
C-22 -- Irreconcilable or Co-Equal? Memory and History at Historic Sites -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 36; Summary: Commemoration and memory are powerful, popular, and unseen forces for preservation, yet they are often dismissed in favor of what we tout as sound professional practice. What is the balance, or is there one?
C-23 -- Collections: We've Supported Them for a Long Time -- But Can We Make Them Work Better for Us? -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 36; Summary: Collections are perhaps the National Park Services most underutilized resources, despite significant public investment in their conservation and management. Should we change that? Can our collections better benefit the parks and the public?
C-24a -- Whose Archeology Is It, Anyway? -- (Continues to Session C-24b); Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 141; Summary: As public stewards of archaeological sites, the National Park Service must better address multiple and often conflicting values that all Americans derive from the archaeological record. How should we do this? Are we listening to the right people?
C-24b -- Whose Archeology Is It, Anyway? -- (Continues to Session C-24c); (Continued from Session C-24a); Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 141; Summary: As public stewards of archaeological sites, the National Park Service must better address multiple and often conflicting values that all Americans derive from the archaeological record. How should we do this? Are we listening to the right people?
C-24c -- Whose Archeology Is It, Anyway? -- (Continued from Session C-24b); Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 141; Summary: As public stewards of archaeological sites, the National Park Service must better address multiple and often conflicting values that all Americans derive from the archaeological record. How should we do this? Are we listening to the right people?
C-25r -- DNA Technology -- Curse, or Blessing? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 147; Summary: Led by an ethicist, this session explores the complexities of the issues surrounding human DNA research, particularly as it affects ancient human remains in the United States. (Repeated as C-26r)
C-26r -- DNA Technology -- Curse, or Blessing? -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 140; Summary: Led by an ethicist, this session explores the complexities of the issues surrounding human DNA research, particularly as it affects ancient human remains in the United States. (Repeated as C-25r)
C-27r -- How We Learn From Experience -- The Model Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 20; Summary: The NPS Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program is a successful model of joint State/Federal program administration, self examination, and growth. Can other Service programs replicate this success? (Repeated as C-28r)
C-28r -- How We Learn From Experience -- The Model Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 20; Summary: The NPS Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program is a successful model of joint State/Federal program administration, self examination, and growth. Can other Service programs replicate this success? (Repeated as C-27r)
C-29 -- Funds Without Fetters -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: With the potential for a substantial increase in the LWCF and the HPF, this session examines radical and conservative views about distribution and management of the funds. Watch for fireworks.
C-30 -- Should We be a Global Player? Is the World Our Oyster? Should It Be? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 50; Summary: World environmental leader or stay-at-home agency? Can we learn and teach on the world scene? The National Park Service has been in and out of international historic preservation efforts. Should we play on the road more?
C-31 -- Keep the Torch Burning Bright: Personal Reflections on Cultural Resource Stewardship -- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Capacity: 20; Summary: Take time for thoughtful conversation with your colleagues, personal reflection, and journal writing. Join nationally acclaimed writers and peers to examine how we draw inspiration from places, people, and experiences to sustain our energy and leadership.
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