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Session: Kicking off the 250thMonday, April 72 - 3:15 PM Location: Ithaca Downtown Conference Center About: As New York State prepares to kick off the 250th Commemoration of the American Revolution, join a discussion about how your organization or community can participate in an inclusive commemoration that connects our visitors and communities to the Revolution and to the 250 year struggle towards the ideals embedded in our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The conversation will cover New York's role in revolutions from Saratoga to Seneca Falls to Stonewall and Beyond, and will emphasize elevating authentic indigenous voices, and others left out of past commemorations. The session will be moderated by NYS Historian Devin Lander and Phil Giltner, Director of Special Projects for the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation.Presenters: Aaron Noble, Senior Historian, New York State Museum Aaron Noble (he/him) is senior historian for political, military, and governmental history at the New York State Museum in Albany. He will be discussing the museum's efforts to engage with 250 years of revolutionary history that engages and collaborates with new and traditionally underrepresented voices in the telling of New York's revolutionary story.Georgette Grier-Key, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Eastville Community Historical Society & NYS 250th Commissioner Dr. Georgette Grier-Key is an internationally recognized historian, educator, advocate, and Culture Leader. She is the executive director and chief curator of Eastville Community Historical Society. Additionally, Dr. Grier-Key is professor at Medgar Evers College, specializing in the development of the United States of America and the modern Civil Rights Movement. She is an avid practitioner of grounded theory and sustainability models used to disrupt the agenda of traditional frameworks that have practiced institutional and structural exclusion. Dr. Grier-Key is a New York State 250th Commemoration Commissioner.Anneliese Meck, Park Ranger and Special Events Coordinator, National Park Service Anneliese Meck (she/her) is a Park Ranger and the Special Events & America 250th Coordinator for the Women’s Rights (Seneca Falls, NY) and Harriet Tubman (Auburn, NY) National Historical Parks. Certified in Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) practice, she has over a decade of experience in interpretive program development and management; and is a freelance public historian @TheSewphisicate, collaborating with historical and community organizations throughout the East Coast.Michael Galbon, Historic Site Manager, Ganondagan State Historic Site Michael Galban is the Historic Site Manager of Ganondagan State Historic Site and the Director of the Seneca Art & Culture Center. Ganondagan is a 17th century Seneca town site and nationally regarded as a center for Iroquoian history, cultural and environmental preservation. His academic research focus is on Woodland Indian art/aesthetics, Indigenous semiotics and situated regard. Michael is in the Visual and Cultural Studies PhD program at the University of Rochester. He has served on the board of directors of the Museum Association of New York (MANY), and currently serves on the editorial boards of the New York History and Rochester History Journals. Michael recently collaborated with the Museé du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac on the exhibit “Wampum – Les Perles de la Diplomatie” which opened Spring of 2022 in Paris, of which the corpus of the exhibition traveled to Ganondagan in 2023 as “WAMPUM/OTGO:Ä”. His current project focuses on German and British officers collections of Northeastern Indigenous material formed in the American Revolutionary War Period. |
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