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Public History International. Beyond school? Comparative Perspectives
1st Public History Weekly World Conference
October 2 – 3, 2015
Landgut Sandgrube, Basel
Conference Website: https://www.gesellschaftswissenschaften-phfhnw.ch/events/phi2015/
Publication: Public History and School (2018), De Gruyter Academic Publishers
Political Activism in and through Public History
2nd Public History Weekly World Conference
September 1 – 3, 2023
Volkskundemuseum Wien
Venue: Museum für Volkskunde, Wien
Organizers: Marko Demantowsky and Thomas Hellmuth
Staff members: Kristina Langeder-Höll, Barbara Pavlek Löbl, Lorenz Prager, Iman Elghonemi
Supported by:
- PHW Friends’ Association (Basel, CH)
- Faculty for Historical and Cultural Studies of University of Vienna
- N.N.
- N.N.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Clarissa Ceglio
Clarissa Ceglio, PhD, is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut, where she is also Associate Director of Research for Greenhouse Studios / Scholarly Communications Design. Her research interests are museum history and material culture studies, particularly as these relate to concepts of civic identity across the 20th century. She also collaborates with museums and archives on digital public history research projects. Ceglio came to academia after a career in communications. She is a contributor to the open access volume Radical Roots: Public History and Social Justice (2021) and author of A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).
Prof. Catalina Muñoz Rojas
Catalina Muñoz Rojas is Associate Professor of History at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Her work focuses on the public uses of history around contentious issues of the present. Her current project explores the role of historians and of historical knowledge in transitional justice in the context of the Colombian peace process. Her publications include recently “Moving pictures: memory and photography among the Arhuaco of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia” in History and Anthropology (2017), and “Contentious Memories: History and Urban Redevelopment in Bogotá, Colombia” published in the Journal of Urban Affairs in co-authorship with Friederike Fleischer (2020).
Prof. Jerome de Groot
Jerome de Groot is Professor of Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester. He is currently AHRC Leadership Fellow for the project “Double-Helix History” and has held fellowships and visiting positions in Russia, Japan, Australia and Ireland. He is the author of “Consuming History” (2008/2016), “Remaking History” (2015) and “The Historical Novel” (2009). His research is mainly focused on representation of history in contemporary popular film, television, drama and games, literature of the period 1640-1660, popular and public history, historiography and genetics in popular culture.
Prof. Marko Demantowsky
Marko Demantowsky holds the Chair of Public History at the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies at University of Vienna. Previously he was full professor for modern history and history education in Basel, assistant professor for history education in Bochum and interim professor in Jena and Siegen. His curent main research interests focus on a digitally based ethnology and history of Austrian places of remembrance of national relevance; the digital transformation of historiographic and public-historic practice; and the history and theory of Public History in the European 18th century. He founded Public History Weekly in 2013.
Conference Program
Friday, 1 September
04:00-04:30 p.m.& Registration and refreshments
Room 1: Plenary
04:30-05:00 p.m. Welcome addresses by Marko Demantowsky (Co-organiser) and all partners
05:00-05:45 p.m. Keynote 1
Clarissa Ceglio (Storrs, CO)
Public History as Reflective Balancing Act
05:45-06:15 p.m. Coffee Break
06:15-07:00 p.m. Keynote 2
Catalina Muñoz Rojas (Bogotá)
The Political Uses of History in Transitional Justice: A Colombian Example
07:00-07:30 p.m. Q&A
Saturday, 2 September
Room 1: Plenary
09:15-09.25 a.m. Welcome address by Thomas Hellmuth (Co-organiser), short commentary on both keynotes
Parallel Morning Sessions
Engaged Public History in International Comparison (Plenary Room)
Conflicts and Collaborations: The Case of Schools (Library Room)
Room 1: Plenary
Engaged Public History in International Comparison
Chair: Barbara Pavlek Löbl
09:30-09:45 a.m. Introduction by the Chair
09:50-10:05 a.m. Jasmine Alinder (Santa Cruz, CA)
Public History & Japanese American Incarceration During World War II
10:10-10:25 a.m. Noor Nieftagodien (Johannesburg)
Public History and Emancipatory Politics:
The Case of South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle
10:30-10:45 a.m. Andrei Volodin (Moscow)
Pravda and Truth in Russian Public History:
How to Resist Indoctrination?
10:45-11:15 a.m. Q&A
11:15-11:45 a.m. Coffee break
11:45-12:00 a.m. Irina Savelieva (Woodlands, USA)
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) in Ordinary Words:
Diaries of Soviet People on the Prozhito Website
12:05-12:20 p.m. Mills Kelly (Fairfax, VA)
Making “Divisive Concepts” Visible Through Public History
12:25-12:35 p.m. N.N.
Guest Video Comment
12:35-01:00 p.m. Q&A
Room 2: Library
Conflicts and Collaborations: The Case of Schools
Chair: Thomas Hellmuth
09:30-09:45 a.m. Introduction by the Chair
09:50-10:05 a.m. Arthur Chapman (London)
Activism, Professionalism and Control:
Policing History Teacher Activism in England
10:10-10:25 a.m. Joanna Wojdon (Wrocław)
History Teachers as Public Historians and Their (Potential) Engagement
in Political Activism and Public Debates on History Politics and Contested Histories
10:30-10:45 a.m. Bassel Akar (Porto)
Civil Society and Public Agency for History Education Reform
10:45-11:15 a.m. Q&A
11:15-11:45 a.m. Coffee break
11:45-12:00 a.m. Maria Georgiou (Nicosia)
From history to histories: (Re)Imagining a New Public History Paradigm
in a Post-War Context
12:05-12:20 p.m. Peter Gautschi (Luzern)
Educational Media and Political Activism – Challenging Societal Expectations
on History Education
12:25-12:35 p.m. N.N.
Guest Video Comment
12:35-01:00 p.m. Q&A
01:00-02:00 p.m. Lunch break
Room 1: Plenary
02:00-02:45 p.m. Keynote 3
Marko Demantowsky (Vienna)
Histories of Activism and Activism in Histories – What is the job of “Public History”?
02:45-03:00 p.m. Q&A
A free evening in Vienna.
Sunday, 3 September
Room 1: Plenary
09:15-09.25 a.m. Welcome address by Barbara Pavlek Löbl (Vienna), short commentary on
Saturday’s discussions
Parallel Morning Sessions
Public History and Community Engagement (Plenary Room)
Politics and Institutions: International Perspectives (Library Room)
Room 1: Plenary
Public History and Community Engagement
Chair: Thomas Hellmuth
09:30-09:45 a.m. Introduction by the Chair
09:50-10:05 a.m. Tanya Evans (Sydney)
Memory Making, Politics and the Representation of the Past in Australia’s Blue Mountains
10:10-10:25 a.m. Michel Kobelinski (Campo Mourão, Paraná)
Political Activism and Emotional Bond in Brazil
10:25-10:45 a.m. Short Break
10:45-11:00 a.m. Jimena Perry (New York, NY)
Public Historians’ Duty: Cocktails, Art, or Social Criticism?
11:05-11:20 a.m. Alan Christy (Santa Cruz, CA)
The Okinawa Memories Initiative and the Currents of Transnational Politics
11:20-11.30 a.m. N.N.
Guest Video Comment
11:30-12:00 a.m. Q&A
Room 2: Library
Politics and Institutions: International Perspectives
Chair: Barbara Pavlek Löbl
09:30-09:45 a.m. Introduction by the Chair
09:50-10:05 a.m. Olaya Sanfuentes (Macul, Santiago)
The Public Historian at the Museum. A values activist
10:10-10:25 a.m. Irmgard Zündorf (Potsdam)
To Be or Not to Be Political. Memorials and Political Activism
10:25-10:45 a.m. Short Break
10:45-11:00 a.m. Serge Noiret (Florence)
Activism: an Italian and an Italo-American case
11:05-11:20 a.m. Enrica Salvatori (Pisa)
Fascist art and its audiences. A Public History project on a statue of Costanzo Ciano
11:20-11.30 a.m. N.N.
Guest Video Comment
11:30-12:00 a.m. Q&A
12:00 a.m.-01:00 p.m. Lunch break
Parallel Afternoon Sessions
Public History between Professionalism and Engagement (Plenary Room)
Keynote 4 (Plenary Room)
Room 1: Plenary
Public History between Professionalism and Engagement
Chair: Marko Demantowsky
01:00-01:15 p.m. Introduction by the Chair
01:20-01:35 p.m. Thomas Cauvin (Luxembourg)
Is Impact-driven Public History a Curse or an Opportunity?
01:40-01:55 p.m. Na Li (Shanghai/San Francisco)
Complex Public History —The Asian Context
02:00-02.15 p.m. Cord Arendes (Heidelberg)
Good Activism, Bad Activism: Chances, Risks, and Consequences of
Public History’s Dual Heritage
02:15-02.25 p.m. N.N.
Guest Video Comment
02:25-02:45 p.m. Q&A
02:45-03:15 a.m. Coffee break
Room 1: Plenary
03:15-04:00 p.m. Keynote 4
Jerome de Groot (Manchester)
Histories at Risk
04:00-04:15 p.m. Q&A
04:20 p.m. Conference Farewell Address
Thomas Hellmuth and Marko Demantowsky (Co-organisers)
3-6 September 2023 in Krems
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