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New Field, Old Practices: Promises and Challenges of Public History
(2021)
Although public history is becoming increasingly international, the field
remains difficult to define and subject to some criticism. Based on sometimes longestablished public practices, public history displays new approaches ...
A New Venture and a Commitment to Disciplinary Fusion in the Domain of Digital and Public Humanities
(2020)
On 5 June 2019, Ca’ Foscari University launched the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) in order to take a proactive role in the digital transformation of society and of the academic landscape. With the ...
Making public history: Statues and memorials
(2021)
In working on this edition Keira Lindsay and Mariko Smith have asked ‘whether monuments
should be deconstructed, reconstructed or destroyed.’1
Clearly attention to statues and
memorials has recently been explored in many ...
A duty, an opportunity and a pleasure”: connecting archives and public history
(2021)
This article explores the intersection of public history and archives, with particular reference to the practice of promoting broad participation in interpreting the historical past. Key concepts in public history such as ...
Die Erinnerung an die Krimmler Tauernflucht 1947. Wissen-schaftliche Aufarbeitung, Vermittlung und Initiativen in der Public History
(2021)
The following seminar paper examines the memory of the Krimmler Tauern-flucht, a journey of a group of Jews from Eastern Europe across an Austrian alpine pass to reach Palestine in 1947. For almost forty years, this ...
Public history and contested heritage: memories of the bombing of Italy in the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive
(2020)
In recent years public historians have made concerted attempts to internationalise their
practice.1
The editors of a recent collection note that public history remains rooted
in ‘the local’, although it may acquire regional ...