Join us online for this international conference on the long history of public historical practices in Europe organised by the Public History as new Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) project. For two days, presenters will explore the variety of historical practices that engaged with the public. From Herodotus and Thucydides in Classical Greece to the Mass Observation Archives in mid-20th century England, with focuses on historical societies, street naming or commemorations in the 19th century, the range of case studies demonstrates the breadth of the field and the long-standing history of what later developed as public history.
14-15 September 2023
Online
Please register to receive the Webex link.
Programme
Thursday, 14 September 2023
| 09.00 |
Welcome and Introduction by Thomas Cauvin |
| 09.15 |
Panel 1 / Antiquity and After: (very) Old Public Historical Practices |
| Herodotus, Thucydides, and the 'making' of public history Mai Musié and Owen Rees |
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| A long history of public history: Public historical practices in ancient Greece through the epigraphic perspective Dominika Grzesik |
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| 'Memories of the imagination': theorising public histories of the Roman roads Catherine Fletcher |
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| 11.00 |
Break |
| 11.15 |
Panel 2 / History and new Public Purposes (1750-1900) |
| The nineteenth-century archivists as a public historian: examples from the Netherlands Paul Knevel |
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| Diderot’s Encyclopédie: on the enlightened roots of public history Mandy Paige-Lovingood |
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| 13.00 |
Lunch break |
| 14.00 |
Panel 3 / Societies, Associations, and Regiments in the 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Corporate memory cultures in the emergence of public history: British army regiments, local communities and the framing of the past, c. 1880-c.1960 Geoffrey Cubitt |
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| Creation of modern Serbian statehood and practice of public history аt the turn of the 19th into 20th centuries Aleksandra Kolaković |
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| 15.45 |
Break |
| 16.00 |
Panel 4 / State Public History: Nations, Authoritarianism and Counter-powers |
| Commemorations and public history of Portuguese empire under Salazar dictatorship regime Victor Barros |
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| “Substituting false ideas by true ones”. Differing public history practices during the Franco dictatorship Amaia Lamikiz |
Friday, 15 September 2023
| 09.15 |
Panel 1 / Building Public Narratives: Archives, Schools, and Public Space |
| Public space, an open-air history book? A chosen past: street names in Brussels Chantal Kesteloot |
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| Origins and reasons of a public history of education in Italy of the second half of the 19 th century Giordana Merlo |
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| ‘…so that as complete a record as possible may be available for the future historians’ The Bureau of Military History project in Ireland Karol Mullaney-Dignam |
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| 11.00 |
Break |
| 11.15 |
Panel 2 / Participatory Public Practices (1940s-1970s) |
| (Re)Building together – public participation in Polish museums in the interwar period (1918-1939) Marta Kopiniak |
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| Mass Observation and its archive of everyday life in Britain Fiona Courage |
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| The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre site: a silent, perennial, ante litteram operation of public history Francesca Salvatore |
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| 13.00 | End of the conference |
More information required? Please contact us at phacs@uni.lu.