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Conversations on the Commons: See You Online!
April 30, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
See You Online! Acing the virtual conference
April 30, 2021, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Conferences and meetings are in full virtual swing! Here at the Mass History Alliance, we’re in the midst of making sure this year’s Mass History Conference on June 7th will be a smashing success. Join MHA’s IT pundit Matt Friedman and Susan Grabski, executive director of the Lawrence History Center (Virtual Community Symposium: Public Safety in Lawrence on MAY 1!) for a chat about the do’s and don’ts of virtual conferencing. We’ll have a look behind the scenes as we share what we’re working on and how we’re meeting the opportunities and challenges of organizing an interactive virtual event.
Have you attended or organized a virtual conference? What worked, and what didn’t? Share your experiences, questions, and observations as we discuss the fun (and occasionally frustrating!) features of virtual conferencing, for the benefit of us all!
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE!
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- In addition to being the MHA’s technology guy, Matthew Friedman is the editor of The Typescript, as well as a writer, filmmaker, and a historian of modernism and of Diaspora Jewish life. He has taught at Rutgers University, Dominican University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Friedman is currently at work on a study of the relationship between the State of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora since 1948. He has worked as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Montreal Gazette, The National Post, Wired News, and InternetWeek.
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- Susan Grabski, M.Ed., has been executive director of the Lawrence History Center (LHC) since 2011. She serves as a member of the MA State Historical Records Advisory Board, as a member of the Friends of the Lawrence Heritage State Park Board, and is a Commissioner for the Essex National Heritage Area. In 2013, she co-authored Lawrence, Massachusetts and the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike with UMass Lowell History Professor Robert Forrant and co-curated the LHC online exhibition, Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History, which is included among other stories of national significance on the Digital Public Library of America.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.