Conversations on the Commons: Gender Inclusion: Not Just for Pride Month!

[Massachusetts History Alliance]

View this email in your browser The Mass History Alliance invites you to: Conversation on the Commons Gender Inclusion: Not Just for Pride Month! Friday, October 20, 2023, 2:00 - 3:30pm A Conversation featuring Joan Ilacqua of The History Project and Ken Turino of Historic New England. Moderated by Gloria Greis of the Needham History Center & Museum.   Too often we schedule programs to check off boxes. Instead, diversity and inclusion should inform all of our programming throughout the year. In this Conversation, Panelists Joan Ilacqua (Executive Director of The History Project) and Ken Turino (Manager of Community Partnerships and Resource Development at Historic New England) will discuss how we address (or fail to address) issues of gender diversity/gender equity/gender identity in our museums. How can we practically make our staff and visitors in the LGBTQ+ community feel more included? What information already lies hidden in our collections? How do we research and document LGBTQ+ history in our communities? What have we failed to see? What have we failed to say? How do we make our program planning more equitable and inclusive, and not just send out a little highlight factoid every June?   Registration is free. REGISTER HERE! About our panelists: Joan Ilacqua is Executive Director of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston. Previously, Ilacqua served as Co-Chair of The History Project’s board of directors and as Harvard Medical School’s Archivist for Diversity and Inclusion. She is a former member of the New England Archivists’ Inclusion and Diversity Committee, and has a background in advocacy and oral history. She is a graduate of UMass Boston’s Public History master’s program, holds a Nonprofit Management Certificate from Harvard University, and earned her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Puget Sound.   Ken Turino is Manager of Community Engagement and Exhibitions at Historic New England, the oldest, largest and most comprehensive regional preservation organization in the country. He also developed and coordinates the Program in New England Studies at Tufts University, a week long course on New England architecture, decorative arts, and material culture. Mr. Turino is Chair of the American Association for State and Local History's Leadership in History Awards Program, a member of AASLH's Historic House Museums Committee and on the advisory council for the American Association of Museum's Museum magazine. Prior to coming to Historic New England, Turino was Executive Director of the Lynn Museum for fourteen years, an active local history museum in Lynn, Massachusetts. He also served as Assistant Director at the Lyceum in Alexandria, Virginia and as Director of Education at the Paul Revere House in Boston. We will do our best to monitor questions and comments during the history studio. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. Questions? Contact us at com...@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. Suggest a Conversation topic or volunteer as a peer panelist or moderator. Mass History Commons is a project of the Mass History Alliance supported by the generous contributions of our sponsors: Mass Humanities (Major Sponsor) State Historical Records Advisory Board (MA-SHRAB) Mike Potaski Help keep the ship afloat! Become a sponsor of the Mass History Commons. Copyright © 2023 Mass History Alliance, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in Massachusetts history. Our mailing address is: Mass History Alliance 123 Ashmont Street C/O Earl Taylor, Treasurer, Mass History Alliance Dorchester, MA 02124 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.