2021 Conference

Conference Sessions Handouts

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Monday

Welcome and Keynote Presentation
Resilience, Healing, and Museums: A Conversation with Dr. Lisa Wong

10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Crowdsourcing Within Reach: Big Impacts for Institutions of all Sizes
Diversity Recruiting to Make Museum Boards, Leaders and Managers More Inclusive

Diversity Recruiting.docx

K-12 Museum Education in 2021: Best Practices, New Paradigms, and Innovative Solutions
Power, Trauma, and Integrity: Moral Distress in the Museum Field
Re/Interpreting Reinterpretation: Challenging Traditional Reinterpretation Processes While Rewriting an Inclusive Narrative

12:30 – 1:15 pm
Directors and Trustees Lunch

12:30 – 1:15 pm
PAG Lunches

Education
Historic Sites
YEP PAG for Emerging Museum Professionals

NEMA2021_YEP_Resources.pdf

1:30 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Build (Your Community) Back Better: Using museum practices for community and urban planning.

Build (Your Community)Back Better Resource List.pdf

Challenging Communications
Museum Mindfulness
Sports Museum as a Lens for Social Justice
Think Tank: Museums & Their Climate Change Impact
Throw Out the Linear Path & Reimagine Your Professional Growth

Your Career Road Trip Workbook - Penney Leadership.pdf

2:45 – 3:45 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Digitizing Collections: A New Kind of Audience Engagement for Small Museums
Finding Purpose Amid a Pandemic: The Struggle and Triumph in Re-Imagining Maine Maritime Museum’s Education Programs
Making Exhibits that “Hack the World”: Non-Virtual Alternatives to the Gallery

Hack the World Resource List.pdf

Re-Imagining Workspaces as Supportive & Equitable

2:45 – 5:00 pm
Double Session

Engaging Facilitation in a COVID World

4:00 – 5:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Collections Conundrums: How Collections Storage Improvement Projects Fueled a Re-Evaluation of the Museum Collection
Community Engagement and Co-curation in the Galleries: A Case Study from CT
Joining a Board: How & Why

Museum Membership: Town Hall

Wednesday

8:15– 9:15 am
Independent Museum Professionals Affinity Group Breakfast
Working-with-IMPs.pdf

9:30 am – 10:30 am
Keynote Presentation
Equity, Governance, and the Future of Culture: A Conversation with Michael J. Bobbitt

10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Conducting Museum Evaluations with Accessibility in Mind

Inclusive Philanthropy
Managing the Afterlife of a Collection

Other Duties as Assigned: The Varied and Various Roles of a New Executive Director

The Art of the Possible: Collaborative Models for Experience Development

12:30 – 1:15 pm
The Museum Directors' Discussion

12:30 – 1:15 pm
PAG Lunches

Academic Museums & Galleries
Exhibitions PAG
LGBTQ+ Museum Staff & Students
Library & Archives

1:30 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Far from Formulaic: Reimagining Your Site with Artists-in-Residence

Financial Management Medley
New England’s Complicity in the Economy of Enslavement
Podcast Listening Party!

Podcast Listening Party Session Handout November 17 2021.pdf

The Creation of a Virtual Teaching Module: This Land is Home

2:45 – 3:45 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Ask an HR Professional
Bigger Impact: How to Write & Use Impact Statements for Advocacy

Emergency Planning Tips and Tricks

Transformations at Night: The Son Et Lumiere

2:45 – 5:00 pm
Double Session

Inclusive Language

NEMA_community in mind_Kapitan.pdf

4:00 – 5:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions

NEMA: Privilege, Power, and Change
Regeneration Through Collaboration: Forging an Industrial History Network
Technology and the Visitor Experience

Friday

9:30 am – 10:30 am
Concurrent Sessions

Creating Inclusive Sense of Place Narratives
Museums & Unions: Q&A

Museums & Unions: Q&A PPT and Resources

The Emergence and Acceleration of New Virtual Membership Models
Torment or Triumph: Planning and Managing Facilities and Infrastructure Projects

10:45 am – 11:45 pm
Career Conversation with Laura Roberts

10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Challenges, Opportunities, and Growth: How to Build an Actionable Strategic Plan Despite a Global Pandemic and Resistance to Change
Making Space: Museums Encouraging Community
Talk Dirty to Me: Cleaning Furniture
The Future of Museum Education: Inside/Out of Museums

12:30 – 1:15 pm
Annual Meeting & Awards

1:30 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Disaster Planning for Extended Closures
Impactful Collections: Making Historic Data Relevant to our Most Pressing Issues
Swinging Open the Doors on Virtual Tours in Historic House Museums
The Coastal Maine Geopark: Community, College and Museum Collaboration