ELPHi, Electronic Library of Public History

La comunità nelle pratiche e nei progetti di Public History

2026-07-03T13:36:28Z

La comunità nelle pratiche e nei progetti di Public History Noiret, Serge This essay explores the concept of «communities» as objects of study and as actors in Italian and international Public History practices. Before describing three cases of community-sourcing in communities located in Italy, the United States and Belgium, we discuss how the «community» has been studied in the recent history of Italian Public History and its «glocal» dimension based on the Book of Abstracts of the Associazione Italiana di Public History annual conferences from 2017 to 2025.

Public History and Heritage among Communities: Participation and Knowledge Sharing

2026-07-03T13:26:59Z

Public History and Heritage among Communities: Participation and Knowledge Sharing Noiret, Serge My contribution aims to briefly describe how Public History (from now on PH), with its historical path, methods, and practices, can enrich a transdisciplinary history and management of cultural heritage. How PH could meet the needs and enhance some tasks of heritage professionals will be explained through some examples of participatory practices that involve local communities in the context of the Faro Convention of the Council of Europe (2005) and its implications for participatory practices in historical-archaeological heritage, emphasized the importance of direct involvement of local communities.

Public History (of Education) and Applied History Manifestos’ 2011-2023

2026-07-03T13:13:42Z

Public History (of Education) and Applied History Manifestos’ 2011-2023 Noiret, Serge This contribution aims to describe briefly what is Public History and how this sub-field of the history discipline (from now on PH), with its historical path in the last f ifty years, its methods, and applied practices, can enrich the knowledge of History and Memory as a participative an applied activity for the present. One of these activities is the Public History of Education, for which PH fosters the need to engage locally with students and their families also outside the classroom and looking at how the past and memories are displayed in public spaces and emphasizing the importance of direct involvement of local communities with their pasts and memories. Public History and its sub-field of public History of education are applied disciplines in and for the present. However, good practices and ethical issues are sometimes summarized when producing disciplinary manifestos. This essay will engage with different history manifestos and their importance in describing the hermeneutic of Public and Applied History in the 21st century.

A Very Brief Introduction and Summary

2026-07-02T12:45:38Z

A Very Brief Introduction and Summary Fischer, Franz ; Mantoan, Diego ; Tramelli, Barbara