Program

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Thursday, September 24
Location: Avon Cinema, 260 Thayer Street (bet Olive and Meeting Streets), Providence

Panel 1: Designing Tours for Civic Engagement (Watch Video)

3pm:                  Welcome Remarks, Susan Smulyan, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, 
                      Brown University 
                      Denise Pinto, Jane's Walk
                      Therese Kelly, Los Angeles Urban Rangers
                      Holly Ewald, UPP Arts

4:30pm:               Panel discussion moderated by Susan Smulyan.



Friday, September 25
Location: Avon Cinema, 260 Thayer Street (bet Olive and Meeting Streets), Providence 

Panel 2: Mobile Documentaries (Watch Video)

9am:                 Brief Welcome Remarks, Susan Smulyan
                     
                     Panel Overview, Marc Ruppel, National Endowment for the Humanities 
                     Michael Epstein, Walking Cinema 
                     Shannon Carroll, Vivid Story
                     C. Morgan Grefe, Rhode Island Historical Society / Rhode Tour
                     Monica Muñoz Martinez, Refusing to Forget

11am:                Panel discussion moderated by Marc Ruppel

11:35am:             Coffee Break
                     
12pm:                Curatescape Workshop led by Mark Tebeau, Director of Curatescape and Director of Public 
                     History, Arizona State University  (Watch Video)
     

12:45pm:             LUNCH BREAK   

Panel 3: Behind the Scenes of Place-based Storytelling (Watch Video)

2pm:                 Welcome Remarks, Marisa Angell Brown, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities
         
                     Jim Mathews, Field Day Lab           
                     Dietrich Neumann, The Campus Guide Apps and FACADES   
                     Chelsea Gunn, Newport Historical Society                

3:30pm:              Discussion moderated by Marisa Angell Brown

4pm:                 Wine & Cheese Reception