COMING TOGETHER:
Supporting Each Other Through Community
2024 Maine Archives & Museums Annual Conference
Friday, October 4, 2023
Lewiston-Auburn Campus - University of Southern Maine
Thanks to our Sponsors Maine's First Ship | Perch Design Studio | Digital History Consulting | Cultural Alliance of Maine | Smallcorp | Maine Community Foundation | Center for the Painted Wall | Yarmouth History Center | Maine Historical Society | Lucideia
Keynote speaker: Julie Golia
Julie Golia is a historian of media and gender, an acclaimed curator, and an award-winning educator. Currently, she is the Associate Director of Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscripts at The New York Public Library (NYPL). Golia has led important collecting and outreach initiatives in her role at the Library, including Pandemic Diaries, which collected almost 300 audio recordings of people’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic to become part of the Library’s research collections. She has also overseen the acquisition of major archives, including the papers of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. She is the curator of two upcoming exhibitions at the Library: A Century of The New Yorker (2025) and Revolution 250 (2026).
Golia was formerly Vice President for Curatorial Affairs and Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society, where she curated several landmark exhibitions, including “Taking Care of Brooklyn: Stories of Sickness and Health” (2019) and "Waterfront" (2018), which covered 20,000 years of history along Brooklyn's coastline. She was the co-host and co-producer of BHS's podcast Flatbush + Main, and co-founded and edited TeachArchives.org, a robust educational website that brings innovative teaching exercises and articles on pedagogy to a national audience.
Golia received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. She is the author of Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Plenary speaker: Rachel Ferrante
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Rachel Ferrante comes to Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning and Labor (Maine MILL) with more than a decade of museum experience and ties to the Lewiston community. She has been executive director since September 2021. She oversees all aspects of the museum, including exhibitions and programming, fundraising, finance, human resources, visitor services, communications and board development. Rachel directed the institution’s rebranding from Museum L-A to Maine MILL, along with an expanded digital presence.
Prior to this role, she spent eleven years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York rising from an assistant in the director’s office, to the marketing manager, and finally launching and overseeing the touring exhibition program as an exhibition project manager.
Rachel is a graduate of Bates College with a B.A. in art and visual culture and minor in rhetoric. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
2024 MAM Conference Schedule:
Thursday Oct. 3
Opening Reception - Thursday evening 6:30 - 8:00 pm (drop in any time) at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives on the Bates College campus
70 Campus Ave, Lewiston, ME
Extended open hours at the Bates Museum of Art
Open 10:00 am - 8:00 pm on Thursday October 3rd.
75 Russell St., Lewiston, ME
Friday Oct. 4
Maine Archives & Museums Conference
University of Southern Maine, Lewiston Auburn Campus
51 Westminster St., Lewiston, ME
8:30-9:00 am - Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:30 am - Welcome/Opening Plenary
9:45 - 10:45 am- Block A
11:00 am -12:00 pm- Block B
12:00-1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 -2:00 pm - Keynote
2:15-3:15 pm - Block C
3:30 - 4:30 pm - Block D
Full Friday Schedule Here
