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2013 Oregon Heritage Conference
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Connect Through Stewardship 

The abundance of opportunities for stewarding Oregon heritage will be the center of workshops, speakers, and panels at this year's conference. Whether you are documenting and preserving an important collection or building, preparing for a disaster, advocating for support, or creating a new appreciation for Oregon heritage in its many forms, you will want to attend. The Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards presentations, an affecting keynote talk, special tours, cutting-edge research expositions, and meeting colleagues from across the state are important bonuses.

Attendees will include community leaders, staff and volunteers from archives, records repositories, historical societies, museums, historic cemeteries, ethnic organizations, schools, historic preservation commissions, humanities groups, Main Street programs, the tourism
industry, economic development, history buffs and professional historians, youth, and local, tribal, state and federal governments.

2013 Conference Program
(final programs will be available at the conference)

Logistics

Architectural Heritage Center (AHC) in Portland is the homebase!

Dates: May 9 & 10, 2013

Locations:
Architectural Heritage Center
Melody Ballroom
East Bank Saloon

Oregon Heritage Excellence Award Banquet will be the evening of May 9.

Registration information will be available in February. People planning to register onsite for the 2013 Oregon Heritage Conference  will need to bring their checkbooks, as that will be the only form of payment accepted on site.

Contact: Kyle Jansson at Kyle.Jansson@state.or.us or 503-986-0673.

Conference Highlights

Download the 2013 Conference Program!

  • Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards Banquet
  • Luncheon Keynote Speaker Alice Norris, "Is Everyone at the Table?"
  • OC2C Collections Care Workshop
  • OC2C Disaster Preparedness Workshop
  • Survey is Just a Start: Promoting Tourism, Community Pride and Preservation Planning Using Historic Resource Surveys
  • Use It, Or Lose It: Thinking Local About Adaptive Reuse
  • Everyone a Steward: Heritage Advocacy
  • 60s is the new 30s - Building Appreciation for Modern Historic Properties
  • Managing Mid-century Modern: Tools for Local Governments
  • Preaching Beyond the Choir: Leveraging Preservation and Heritage to Build New Relationships
  • If You Tell Them They Will Care: Case Studies for Engaging Your Community
  • Oregon Heritage Fellows
  • East Portland/Grand Ave Neighborhood Tour by AHC
Oregon Heritage Fellowships
Heritage Programs awards 1-3 fellowships to undergraduate students who are seniors and to graduate students for researching, writing and presenting a topic related to history, geography, archaeology, cultural heritage, or historic preservation.
 
The students will present their topics at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 10 ,during the 2013 Oregon Heritage Conference.  The students and their topics are: Patrick Lozar, "'An Anxious Desire of Self-preservation': Colonialism, Transition, and Identity on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, 1860-1910." Regan Watjus, "Contours of Race: The Chinese in Astoria, Oregon." Kelly Yelverton, "The Portland Hotel: A Spatial Analysis of Race and Class Relations, 1890-1929."  
 
Application information is available at the Fellowship website.

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