2012 Conference Tickets On Sale

To purchase tickets, visit Brown Paper Tickets to order online. Or fill out this form and snail mail it ot us.

$30 for Guild members, $25 students, $35 general public. After May 1, prices goes up to $45. Boxed lunch is $12.

Keynote speakers are Robert Nellams, Seattle Center director and Jeffrey Ochsner, UW Professor of Architecture and author of Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects

Other conference highlights include: 7 conference sessions, such as “Design of the Fair,” “Social History of the 1960s,” and “Food of the Fair,” featuring 17 presentations from local historians; a screening of the KCTS 9 documentary When Seattle Invented the Future, a walking tour of the Seattle Center campus, and a viewing of the MOHAI exhibit The Future Remembered.

Contact conference@pnwhistorians.org with any questions.

2012 Conference Program Draft

Subject to change, but we’re pretty much settled!

It’s an outstanding set of topics and presenters, including heavyweights like Ochsner, Becker and Dorpat, a range of material from Music of the Early 1960s toMid-Century Modern Landscape to Hegemonic Gastronomic Enculturation. There’s also an optional film and walking tour!

View it here: PNWHG Preliminary 2012 Conference Program.

Tickets are on sale for the May 12 conference, and don’t miss the reception on Friday evening, May 11.

Volunteers for 2012 Conference

If you’re planning to attend this year’s conference, why not consider volunteering as well? Volunteers help to make the conference a real success by meeting and greeting attendees, assisting workshop/session speakers and managing busy information and resource areas. Continue reading →