Conferences | Talks

Upcoming

Smithsonian National Museum of American History Colloquium. “Blackouts and Aerial Images: The Visual Culture of WWII Air Raid Drills in Washington, D.C.” Invited Speaker. September 10, 2024.

Radford University. History 160: History & Board Games, Dr. Tony Guidone’s class. “Spot-A-Plane Game: Airplane Recognition and Spotting as Civic Duty in WWII.” Invited guest lecturer. Spring 2025 semester – upcoming.

Radford University Center for Archives and Digital History Speaker Series. “Curating Local Digital Public History: The Black Lives Next Door Omeka Project.” Invited speaker. Spring 2025 semester – upcoming.

Recent

Popular Culture Association National Conference. “The Gamification of WWII Plane Spotting on the US Home Front.” Panelist. March 30, 2024.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Seminar on Contemporary Science, Technology, and Culture. “Army Flash! WWII Women Plane Plotters & Aerial Visual Culture.” Invited speaker. March 21, 2024.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting, “Army Flash!: WWII Female Civil Defense Workers in the Aircraft Warning Service.” Poster session. January 6, 2024.

DC Mondays at the Museum, George Washington University Museum | The Textile Museum. “Women Plane Plotters During WWII.” Invited speaker. October 9, 2023.

University of Delaware History Workshop. “Visual Culture and WWII Women Plane Plotters.” Invited speaker. October 17, 2023.

DC History Conference, “’Army Flash’: Female Civil Defense Workers at the Antiaircraft Artillery Command Center.” Panelist in  “Evoking Memory” panel. March 2023.

Conference on Community Writing, “Mason Family Manuscript Account Book: A Digital Documentary Editing Project.” Virtual panel. October 2021.

Oral History Coffee Chat: Heurich House Museum – Home/Brewed Oral History Project. October 18, 2021.

Chesapeake Digital Humanities Conference, “Challenges and Ethical Concerns of Contemporary Collecting for a Digital Public Archive.” Virtual panel. February 2021.

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