http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4879 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:54:56 GMT 2026-09-30T18:54:56Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9568 Title: The Notebook, the Closet, and the Film: Iranians Processing Trauma Through Public History, Case Study: The 1988 Executions Authors: Asgari, Rahil Abstract: Iranians who lost loved ones during the revolutionary period (1979–89) have struggled with trauma for more than 40 years. The pain of loss and the knowledge of the torture that happened in the prisons have haunted Iranians who have unintentionally tried to process their trauma through public history. In this article I explore some of these cases by drawing upon interviews I conducted with family members, using them to provide a theoretical framework that demonstrates how generational experience contributed to the ways families, largely unaware of this historical field, utilize public history for healing purposes. Oppression has forced Iranians to engage with audiences as limited as one’s family or as broad as on a global scale. As some Iranians have moved into diaspora, and with the transition of developed trauma into an inherited form, the fear of oppression has decreased generationally, increasing the levels of engagement with the public. This has encouraged Iranians living inside the country to join in such efforts on a larger scale. Whether public, semi-public, or less-than-public, all cases demonstrate how the process of healing has evolved into a form of resistance that strives for engagement while defying the forces that seek to silence them. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9568 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9567 Title: From Hashtag to History: Social Media, Performance, and Memory in Digital Archives Authors: Kole de Peralta, Kathleen Abstract: The Archivo Covid-19 Perú is a rapid-response public history project at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru (San Marcos Archive) that collected Indigenous Amazonian pandemic experiences. In the archive, social media posts, oral histories, and hashtags such as #SOSAmazonia and #SOSPueblosTransfronterizos functioned as performative acts of witnessing that confronted state neglect and mobilized collective care. Indigenous actors leveraged online platforms to claim public visibility, pressure authorities, and reframe the pandemic as part of a larger history of state neglect. Simultaneously, archival preservation recreates power dynamics. By selecting, mediating, and recontextualizing ephemeral posts, the archive transforms digital objects into historical artifacts, restaging them for new audiences and interpretative frames. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9567 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9566 Title: Orality, Affect, and Memory: Opportunities for Emergent Public Oral History in Asia Authors: Li, Na Abstract: The convergence of new and old media technologies invites a renewed focus on orality, and it also makes possible oral history goes public in Asia. In an embodied interview space, orality, affect, and memory interact. Public oral history in Asia is emergent and complex. This article explores that emergence, that complexity. With a selection of case analysis in Asian context, the study argues how public oral history has emerged as an affective engagement with the past, and how that engagement has actively shaped the public memories. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9566 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9565 Title: The Potential of Locative Mobile Apps for Telling New Stories About Contested Cities Authors: Le Normand, Brigitte Abstract: This article describes the design of a locative mobile phone app, Rijeka Fiume in Flux, for exploring the past of Rijeka, a city that was historically contested, first between Hungary and Croatia in the 19th century, and then between Italy and Yugoslavia in the 20th century. It evaluates how successfully it disrupts ethno-national narratives about the city’s identity. Modelled on experiential learning and polyvocality, the app seeks to share historical knowledge from multiple perspectives with a broad audience, while also enabling users to explore the past based on their curiosity and experiences moving through the city, provoking engagement with the multifaceted stories of the city. Focus groups with students of different ages, place of residence, and language groups offers useful insights on the potential of such apps to tell new stories about contested heritage. One category of feedback concerns the appeal as well as drawbacks of technology, including the consequences of encountering technical malfunctions, and larger questions concerning the alienating effects of technology. The second concerns the challenges of attracting and maintaining the interest of the intended audience. The third concerns the effects of engaging with the contents of the app. Overall, the feedback confirms the potential of apps to disrupt and create new narratives, while also highlighting specific challenges that require targeted attention in order to develop effective apps. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9565 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z