A group of second-year MA Public History students all found our Major Research Essays and Projects to be particularly concerned and centred on “place,” but through varying ways. We proposed a collaborative panel discussion in which we will consider how our individual use of place and place-based memory allows us to re-think the historian’s craft. This can include but is not limited to our methodologies, types of sources used, and public engagement and output.

Our individual abstracts are as follows: Chloe Dennis is producing a digital tour of Beechwood Cemetery that recreates the experience of visiting a rural cemetery in the nineteenth century for a twenty-first-century audience. Jaime Simons is producing sound art that focuses on the history of steamboats on the Ottawa River in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Meranda Gallupe-Paton is producing Memories of Mechanicsville, an immersive podcast that acts as an audio time capsule made up of snapshots from life in the neighbourhood. Sarah Catterall is examining the Kandahar Cenotaph’s influence on its many different locations and the spaces it has inhabited as a primary influence on its interpretations. This website is to provide a landing page for our presentation, to share the images and other work that we reference during our presentation.

Special thanks to our moderator, Danielle Mahon!