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APHNYS 2023 Annual Conference - Ithaca, NY

Region 7:

The Region 9 Historian’s meeting will be Saturday, May 10 at the Delphi Falls County Park (2006 Cardner Road, Cazenovia). The event will be from 9 am to 1 pm. If you’ve never been to this site it features a beautiful two-tier waterfall as well as trails throughout the park. We will be having our the meeting at the newly built conference center.

This year’s speakers will be:

Derrick Pratt of the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse and possibly one more organization who will talk about the upcoming Erie Canal Bicentennial and what is happening locally and across the state

Kristin De Lucia, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University, she will talk about a project she has done for a few years which takes students out of the classroom and to a former mill site to learn about the families that lived there.

Dorothy Willsey (from the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum & The Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark) & Mary Liz Stewart (Of the Underground Railroad History Project and the Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence of Albany) from the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State will speak on the 2027 bicentennial of the Abolition of Slavery in New York State and how we can get involved.

If you are planning on attending, and have not done so already, please let me know and as I will add you to the list of attendees.

Region 10:

Karen Ferguson, Town of Kirkwood Historian
70 Crescent Drive
Kirkwood NY 13795

Region 10 Meeting Registration Form.pdf

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APHNYS 2023 Annual Conference - Ithaca, NY

Start
Monday, September 18, 2023
8:00 AM
End
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
12:00 PM
Location
Ithaca, NY
Registered
155 registrants

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:

Member - Full conference – $65.00
Member - One day – $25.00
Member - Virtual – $100.00
Non-member - Full conference – $85.00
Non-member - One day – $50.00
Non-member - Virtual Conference – $150.00

The Association of Public Historians of New York State (APHNYS) is pleased to announce that our 2023 Annual Conference will be held in Ithaca, NY, September 18-20, 2023. Our conference draws more than 100 government-appointed historians and affiliates from across the state. The conference will be held at the Hotel Ithaca, located at 222 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.

Named after the island home of Homer’s King Odysseus, Ithaca sits on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake and is the seat of Tompkins County in the Finger Lakes region of Central New York. As we gather in Ithaca this fall, we consider the pull that the city’s mythological eponym had on its homesick hero and invite you to explore our theme— “Home, Sweet Home”—and its various implications.

How have people connected with the places they call home, whether their birthplace, adopted community, or ancestral origins? How have geographies and landscapes influenced people’s social, cultural, and economic experiences, whether in urban, suburban, or rural homes? How have people used the land they call home? How have people’s homes been a point of pride? How have people defined or redefined their homes? Their families? How have home spaces reflected safety and protection, or threat and vulnerability? What disruptions to homelife—war, captivity, enslavement, migration, natural disasters—have people faced? What have been the experiences of those without homes, those displaced from their homes, or those who lived in places they might not have considered home?

At this year’s conference, we invite New York’s public historians to explore these and other questions relating to the concept of home and its influence on the lives of people throughout our state’s history.

APHNYS is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.