Recent Submissions

  • Dark Pasts in the Landscape: Statue Wars in Western Australia 

    Gregory, Jenny (2021-06-22)
    In an era of reconciliation and truth-telling, many have questioned the symbolic power of statues. A storm of controversy across the globe galvanised an electric energy in which many statues were damaged or toppled. Statues ...
  • 'Setting the Scene': Statue Wars and Ungrateful Citizens 

    Lindsey, Kiera <Griffith University>; Smith, Mariko <Australian Museum> (2021)
    This article provides an outline of the current statue wars in Australia, England, America, New Zealand and Eastern Europe before reviewing the many of the acts of public history making these contestations have inspired ...
  • Flying Below the Radar. Civil Aviation Heritage in Australia's Northern Territory 

    Shanahan, Fiona (2021)
    Australian government administrators and private enterprise took full advantage of the opportunities made possible by civil aviation in Australia’s Northern Territory. Yet, there is a common perception among Territorians ...
  • Collective Immersion by Affections: How Children Relate to Heritage Sites 

    Trenter, Cecilia (2021)
    This article explores, through group-interviews and in terms of peer-culture, the ways in which pupils negotiate experiences from school-excursions to three heritage sites, Vadstena Castle, a former Royal Castle connected ...
  • A Brief Editorial Note on Relations and Megadungeons in the Digital and Public Humanities 

    Fischer, Franz <Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia>; Mantoan, Diego <Università degli Studi di Palermo>; Tramelli, Barbara <Libera Università di Bolzano> (F. Fischer, D. Mantoan, B. Tramelli, A Brief Editorial Note on Relations and Megadungeons in the Digital and Public Humanities, «Magazén», 4, 2023, n. 2, pp. 181-182, 2023)
    After four years of deep methodological reflections on our scholarly field, we are pleased to announce the publication of the first guest-edited issue of magazén, thus hopefully kickstarting a new trend in our Journal’s ...
  • A New Chapter in a Journal’s Life and the Broadening Field of Digital and Public Humanities 

    Fischer, Franz <Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia>; Mantoan, Diego <Università degli Studi di Palermo>; Tramelli, Barbara <Libera Università di Bolzano> (F. Fischer, D. Mantoan, B. Tramelli, A New Chapter in a Journal’s Life and the Broadening Field of Digital and Public Humanities, «Magazén», 5, 2024, n. 1, pp. 5- 7, 2024)
  • For a New International Public History 

    Cauvin, Thomas <Université du Luxembourg> (T. Cauvin, For a New International Public History, «Public History Review», 30 (2023), pp. 71-78, 2023)
    Proposed in the United States of America in the 1970s, the term “public history” is now used in various parts of the world. The internationalization of the field of public history raises various questions about its definition, ...
  • A New Zeal for History: Public History in New Zealand 

    Trapeznik, Alex <University of Otago> (A. Trapeznik, A New Zeal for History: Public History in New Zealand, «Public History Review», 30 (2023), pp. 79–88, 2023)
    Public history is still a relatively unknown term in New Zealand, an island nation in the southwest pacific with a population of around 4.6 million people. Until the late 1980s it was rare for professional historians to ...
  • The Memorial Afterlives of Online Crowdsourcing: ‘Lives of the First World War’ at Imperial War Museums 

    Foster, Ann-Marie <Northumbria University>; Wallis, James < Independent Scholar> (A-M. Foster, J. Wallis, The Memorial Afterlives of Online Crowdsourcing: ‘Lives of the First World War’ at Imperial War Museums, «Public History Review», 30 (2023), pp. 89-104, 2023)
    From May 2014 to March 2019 the Imperial War Museums launched a large-scale digital crowdsourcing project, ‘Lives of the First World War’. ‘Lives’ melded official and unofficial datasets to create an integrated database ...
  • Davantage qu’une simple plaque… Odonymie et espace public 

    Kesteloot, Chantal <CegeSoma/Archives de l’État (Belgique)>; Rilla, José <Université de la République, Uruguay SNI> (C. Kesteloot, J. Rilla, Davantage qu’une simple plaque… Odonymie et espace public, «Passés Futurs», n.15 (2024), pp. 4-18, 2024)
    Ces dernières années, l’odonymie a été l’objet d’un intérêt renouvelé qui couvre de nombreuses disciplines. Lien entre le passé, le présent et l’avenir, la dénomination des noms de rues, dès lors qu’elle dépasse un ...
  • Ecos de la Nueva Troya. Nomenclatura y gestión del pasado en Montevideo (1840-1940) 

    Porley, Carolina (C. Porley, Ecos de la Nueva Troya, «Passés Futurs», n.15 (2024), pp. 20-56, 2024)
    Se aborda la nomenclatura de Montevideo como instrumento moderno de apropiación simbólica del territorio y de escritura de la historia, desde la aprobación del primer nomenclátor republicano a la conmemoración de su ...
  • A la vista del pueblo y de labio en labio. Buenos Aires y la toponimia de una capital (1822-1919) 

    Valaco, Pablo <Universidad Nacional de Luján> (P. Valaco, A la vista del pueblo y de labio en labio. Buenos Aires y la toponimia de una capital (1822-1919), «Passés Futurs», n.15 (2024), pp. 58-87, 2024)
    El nomenclador urbano moderno de Buenos Aires tuvo, desde sus orígenes, a sujetos y sucesos como bloques temáticos prevalecientes, consolidándose definitivamente durante el periodo 1880-1916. Su utilización sistemática ...
  • L’histoire au bout de la rue. Le passé dans l’espace public bruxellois 

    Kesteloot, Chantal (C. Kesteloot, L’histoire au bout de la rue. Le passé dans l’espace public bruxellois, «Passés Futurs», n.15 (2024), pp. 90-125, 2024)
    Depuis l’indépendance de la Belgique, les autorités locales ont eu à cœur d’utiliser l’odonymie comme support de politiques mémorielles et identitaires. Si ce mouvement a d’abord porté sur les valeurs et les héros du ...
  • Italy’s Public Memory of its Main Anti-fascist Martyr: Giacomo Matteotti in the Public Space One Century After his Murder 

    Zucchi, Camilla (2024)
    10th June 1924: the socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti was murdered by a fascist group. After his famous speech in the Parliament, where he denounced Mussolini’s regime machinations, he was kidnapped, killed and his ...
  • Placas de la “calle Marielle Franco”. Memorias en disputa en la ciudad y museos de Río de Janeiro 

    Costa, Carina Martins; Silva, Claudia Rose Ribeiro da (C. M. Costa, C. Rose R. da Silva, Placas de la “calle Marielle Franco”. Memorias en disputa en la ciudad y museos de Río de Janeiro, «Passés Futurs», Odonymie et espace public, n.15 (2024), pp. 162-188, 2024)
    Este artículo aborda la disputa por la memoria desencadenada por el asesinato de la concejala de Río de Janeiro (Brasil) Marielle Franco. Los carteles callejeros fueron estrategias construidas tanto por los movimientos ...
  • Politiques mémorielles, dé-commémorations et débats publics. Un entretien avec Sarah Gensburger 

    Gensburger, Sarah; Kesteloot, Chantal (S. Gensburger, C. Kesteloot, Politiques mémorielles, dé-commémorations et débats publics. Un entretien avec Sarah Gensburger, «Passés Futurs», n.15 (2024), pp. 190-200, 2024)
    Chantal Kesteloot a rencontré Sarah Gensburger, directrice de recherche au CNRS et spécialiste des questions mémorielles. L’entretien porte à la fois sur les différents acteurs des politiques mémorielles et sur les ...
  • La République italienne et le patrimoine matériel du fascisme 

    Dematteo, Lynda (L. Dematteo, La République italienne et le patrimoine matériel du fascisme, «Passés Futurs», n.15 (2024), pp. 202-220, 2024)
  • Memoria, cancellazione, spazio pubblico 

    Mastromarino, Anna <Università di Torino> (2024)
    Claims that are hastily classified as acts that want to erase history and memory are actually an opportunity to reflect on our public space and public memory. They run the risk of being instrumentalised by a kind of ...
  • Spazio pubblico e memorie nelle pratiche della Public History 

    Noiret, Serge <European University Institute, Firenze> (S. Noiret, Spazio pubblico e memorie nelle pratiche della Public History, «Rivista di diritti comparati», n.1 (2024), pp. 21-45, 2024)
    The paper first discusses the hermeneutics of Public History (PH) as a discipline that responds to the needs of the present, describing its participatory methods and interaction with society and its various communities. ...
  • Culture wars e potere giudiziario. Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti e Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo nel geo-diritto occidentale 

    Annicchino, Pasquale <Università di Foggia> (P. Annicchino, Culture wars e potere giudiziario. Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti e Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo nel geo-diritto occidentale, «Rivista di diritti comparati», n.1 (2024), pp. 46-68, 2024)
    Judicial decisions play a decisive role in the transnational culture wars that cross many countries and have now become true global culture wars. This contribution, after some initial methodological observations, ...

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