IFPH 2024 Conference Programme

Please note that unless specified all sessions of the International Federation for Public History Conference will be taking place at the Belval Campus (University of Luxembourg), Maison du Savoir building, on the 3rd floor.

September 3 (Tuesday) 

12:00-16:00 | Registration Open Room 3.160

14:00-16:00 | Roundtable 1

      ➜ Public history and the arts (David Dean, Myriam Dalal, Carol Mansour, Joanne Choueiri, Feurat Alani, Emma Awe, Cassandra Marsillo and Radhika Hettiarachchi) - Auditorium 3.520

Live illustration on site by Pascale Ghazaly and Margaux Soulac

16:00-17:00 | Roundtable 2

   ➜ Public history and impact assessment (Tanya Evans and Rhianne Morgan) - Auditorium 3.110

18:00-20:00| Keynote and Conference Opening - Maison des Arts et des Etudiants building (next to the Maison du Savoir)

       ➜ Welcome by Thomas Cauvin and Rhianne Morgan

       ➜ Address by Andreas Fickers, Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)

       ➜ Address by Julia Desmarquest, Board Member Project Manager of the NGO Graines de Vie Luxembourg

       ➜ Opening by Tanya Evans, the President of the IFPH

       ➜ Keynote Lecture: Responsibility & sustainability in shared authority (Rebecca Wingo and Marvin Roger Anderson)

 

September 4 (Wednesday)

8:00-9:00   | Registration - Room 3.160

9:00-10:30 | Session 1

       ➜ Panel 1: Professional historians and the state of public history in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand - Room 3.070

Tanya Evans (Chair)

Lucy Bracey, Mark Dunn and Ewan Morris

       ➜ Panel 2: A deep dive into historical involvement: Unraveling urban actors, collaborations and practices in relation to historical engagement - Auditorium 3.040

Fien Danniau (Chair)

Christine Gundermann, Guardians of Time? Thoughts on Changes in Municipal History in the 20th century

Annika Häberlein, DoingUrbanHistory from Data to Narrative: Identifying and Visualising Mechanisms of Urban History Storytelling

Nils Steffen, Engaging Hamburg's Communities in Migration Histories: A Citizen Science Approach in Stadtrandgeschichten

Samantha Bornheim, Easier Said Than Done: Co-Creating Public History in Cologne

       ➜ Panel 3: Digital storytelling approaches to the Holocaust in Ukraine - Room 3.100

Blandine Landau (Chair)

Anne Parsons, Roots of Resistance: The Tuchyn Story

Nataliia Ivchyk, NGO Mnemonics and Digital Public History: Rivne Case of the Memory of the Holocaust (Ukraine)

Yurii Kaparulin, Holocaust Research through Documentary Filmmaking: Kherson Case

       ➜ Panel 4: Private pain, public histories: Representations of child sexual abuse - Room 3.120

Sofia Papastamkou (Chair)

Victoria Hoyle, Ruth Beecher and Rhea Sookdeosingh

 

10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break

 

11:00-12:30 | Session 2

      ➜ Panel 5: Alternative voices in post-conflict societies: Using oral history to disrupt binary narratives - Auditorium 3.110

Livi Dee (Chair)

Rhianne Morgan, Jack Crangle, Pete Hodson and Shonagh Joice

      ➜ Panel 6: Public history, participation, interpretation and museums - Auditorium 3.040

Emilie Sitzia (Chair)

Camilla Portesani, The participatory public history lab (PPHL): Navigating power structures and methodological challenges in history museums

Frank Golding and Leonie Sheedy, The Australian Orphanage Museum: Interpreting lived and living experience

Neslihan Dogan, Annie Lens and Tijs De Schacht, Why not to build an exhibition. Nurturing connections between communities of Turkish heritage and museums in Ghent

Claudia-Florentina Dobre, Curating the recent past: Museums and memorials dealing with communism in Romania

      ➜ Panel 7: Learning and teaching public history internationally - Room 3.100

Irmgard Zündorf (Chair)

Catarina Letria and Marita Arnold, Studying public history internationally: between academia and professional practice. Reflections from the first cohort of HIPS students

Clement Fabre, Co-constructing and exhibiting a suburban building's history. A public history professor's perspective

Kathryn Eccles and Joanna Rivera-Carlisle, Digital tools for heritage students: Using the ‘Lab-in-Your-Pocket' toolkit to support an innovative training programme in digital public history

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and Esther Rachow, Digital modeling of difficult histories: 3-D models as digital environments for historical learning

      ➜ Panel 8: Digital tools in international public history practice - Room 3.120

Sandra Camarda (Chair)

Fien Danniau, Users, citizens or public? Who is joining us in our digital time traveling? The case of Ghent mapped

Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Internet memes as multimodal analogies: Analogical reasoning and participatory history in the subreddit r/historymemes

Dinara Assanova, Doing digital public history in Kazakhstan: case study of the online museum dedicated to the history of women of Kazakhstan

Kresno Brahmantyo, Public history in Indonesia: How history teaching the nations

 

12:30- 13:30 | Lunch Break

 

13:30-15:00 | Session 3

      ➜ Working Group 1: Silence as a strategy of resilience: dealing with contested histories - Room 3.070

 

Gerlov Van Engelenhoven, Joëlla Van Donkersgoed, Mandy Lee, Amira Benali, Bareez Majid, Nike Van Helden, Loretta Lau, Eleanor Neil and Kathryn Eccles

      ➜ Panel 9: Public History at the crossroads: Interdisciplinary perspectives for studying of uses and abuses of the past in contemporary Russia - Room 3.120

Marianna Tavares (Chair)

Alexandra Kolesnik, Public History and Popular Culture: Nostalgia for the 1990s in contemporary Russian popular music as counter-narrative(s) to the state discourse of the “dashing nineties”

Aleksandr Rusanov, Medievalism and Public History in Russia: The Distant Past of Western Europe Becoming Inspiration, Weapon or “Safe Space”

Oleg Morozov, From Perpetrator to Victim: Victim Reversal as a Gamers' Practical Response to Russian Brutality in Western Digital Games

 Vladislav Staf, Public History and Museums: Problems of Representation of the Past in Different Types of Museums

      ➜ Panel 10: "Who cares about my story?”: Navigating trauma and positionality in the exploration of women's histories of family, community, and the self in twentieth century Belfast - Auditorium 3.110

Rhianne Morgan (Chair)

Sarah Mason, Sinead Burns and Livi Dee

      ➜ Panel 11: 50th Anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution: (in)visibilities in the public sphere - Room 3.100

Natalia Martins De Oliveira Gonçalves (Chair)

Joana Dias Pereira, Marta Prista, Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro, Patricia Roque Martins, Sónia Vespeira de Almeida, Joana Miguel Almeida and Mariame Maouhoub

 

15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break

 

15:30-17:00 | Session 4

      ➜  Workshop 1: Anarchy and archaeology: The role of zines in cultural heritage - Room 3.120

Eleanor Q Neil, Maria Hadjigavriel and Autumn Brown

      ➜ Panel 12: The Sensational Museum - Room 3.070

Clarissa J. Ceglio (Chair)

Sophie Vohra, Hannah Thompson and Charlotte Slark

      ➜ Panel 13: Public history and journalism: complicated or collaborative relation? - Auditorium 3.110

Myriam Dalal (Chair)

Francesca Salvatore, The difficult relationship between public history and journalism in Italy. The case of ”Armir, on the trail of a lost army”

Fernanda Barbosa dos Santos, Curators of Memories: Routes for a transformative Journalism about the conflict in Colombia

Aleksandra Kolaković,  History on the Air: Influence of Journalism on Presentation and Perceptions of the Serbian History

      ➜ Working Group 2: Redefining authority in museums: navigating challenges and positionalities in participatory history-making Working Group - Room 3.100

Camilla Portesani, Serge Noiret, Jimena Perry, Monica Eileen Patterson, Emile Sitzia, Christine Dupont and Primavera Gomes Caldas

 

17:30-19:00 | General Assembly - Auditorium 3.520

 

September 5 (Thursday)

9:00-10:30 | Session 5

      ➜ Working Group 3: Student and early career professionals - Room 3.120

Shuyang Song, Grace McDowell, Joanna Wojdon, Tabea Henn, Cécile Dubuis, Dany Guay-Bélanger and Takuya Tokuhara

      ➜ Panel 14: Teaching digital public history skills to the publics - Room 3.070

Caroline Muller (Chair)

Sofia Papastamkou, Tugce Karatas, Mattia Poggi and Petros Apostolopoulos

      ➜ Panel 15: Walking and watching public history - Auditorium 3.110

Tanya Evans (Chair)

Peter Cole, Using public art to erase historical amnesia: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 commemoration project

Robert Obermair, Hiking to explore the past

 

      ➜ Panel 16: Public history at a crossroads: Participation, politics, education and funding - Auditorium 3.040

Serge Noiret (Chair)

Monica Eileen Patterson, Children as contributors and collaborators in museums  

Jesus Izquierdo Martín and Zoé de Kerangat, Before becoming public. Popular exhumations of Republican victims during the transition to democracy in Spain  

Stefano Bartolini and Francesco Cutolo, Public Brickstory? History and lego bricks

Catherine Fletcher, Follow the money: the financial dynamics of public history

 

10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break

 

11:00-12:30 | Session 6

      ➜ Panel 17: The role of co-creation in the involvement of audiences with special needs: four experiences from Padua University's Museums - Room 3.070

Camilla Portesani (Chair)

Chiara Marin, Marzia Breda, Elena Santi and Sofia Talas

      ➜ Panel 18: Doing online exhibitions - Room 3.100

Christoph Brüll (Chair)

Stefan Krebs, Minett Stories: Telling the history of an industrial region to the public

Maude Williams, War experiences and military fortifications in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th centuries. A historical GIS project in digital public history

Christine Szkiet, Online exhibitions as spaces for experience? The Danioth Digital experiment

Irmgard Zündorf, Documentation or exhibition? Presenting the history of a “lost place” that experienced dictatorships and transformation

      ➜ Panel 19: Public history and making sense of colonial pasts - Auditorium 3.110

Joëlla van Donkersgoed (Chair)

Goki Miyakita, Eliko Akashi, Kiyoko Itagaki, Yu Homma and Keiko Okawa, From marginalization to exhibition: Embracing indigenous Ainu history through cross-cultural dialogues

Anne Hollmuller, The long way home: Object restitution, memory activism and the reexamination of colonial history in France

Meg Foster, Charting colonial crime and contemporary injustice with public history

Hafiz Ghifari Berlianto and Harry Farinuddin, Reclaiming Indonesia's true heritage: Amplifying the significance of artifact repatriation in decolonizing national history

      ➜ Panel 20: The methodological and ethical challenges of archives in participatory public history - Auditorium 3.040

Myriam Dalal (Chair)

Ozge Baykan Calafato and Jonathan Burr, The Akkasah Photography Archive at NYU Abu Dhabi: Transnationality, access and preservation of cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa

Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Messy archiving: co-producing an archive of community conversations with the 100 People Project

Laura Teixeira, Public debates around the (not so) imaginary museum of Caxinas

 

12:30-13:30 | Poster Session and Lunch Break

Pascale Ghazaly, A Journey in Search for May

Carmen Sanchidrián-Blanco and Manuel HIjano-del-Río, An experience of public history of education: The case of the Andalusian Museum of Education

Akram Khater and Lindsey Waldenberg, Arab American Labor

Michael Hollogschwandtner, Beliefs in ‘Holocaust educationʼ. An interview study of tour guides at memorial sites

Rebecca Friend, Capturing Childhood in Canadian Museums: Findings from a Nation-Wide Survey

Katarzyna Dybała, CHANGE: post-industrial sites in Europe. Case studies based on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of habitus

Tanmai Vemulapalli, Community-Oriented Proposal: Analog Zines as Resources for People Seeking Abortions in Restrictive Environments in the U.S.

Michele Lacriola and Fabio De Ninno, Ehi Chat, can you explain Italian Fascism to me? Exploring the Potential of Chat GPT in Historical Research

Aida Horaniet Ibañez and Daniel Richter, From the Archives to the Citizens: A Physicalization of the Census Data from Brill Street in 1922

Aleksandra Krupa-Ławrynowicz and Sebastian LatochaKatyn, Massacre (1940) in memory of widows and orphans. Public and private forms of commemoration

Anthe Baele, Making new citizens with history

Sarah Ritt, Public remembrance practices in Belfast

Marianna Carla Costa Tavares, Maria Inês Sucupira Stamatto and Aliny Dayany Pereira de Medeiros Pranto, Teachers' Narratives in a Community-Based Perspective

Klara Valentina Fritz, War Graves as Sites of Contested Memories: Memory Practices at WWII Soldiers Graves in Vienna's Central Cemetery

Amie Wright, Emma Awe, Rebecca Friend and Scott Coleman, “Collaborative Interdisciplinary Public History for Changing Publics in Canada”

Suman Kumar Roy, Lost Panorama

 

13:30-15:00 | Session 7

      ➜ Working Group 4: Public History from the South: Dialogues between Latin American and African public historians - Room 3.120

Sebastián Vargas Álvarez, Alejandra Rodríguez, María Elena Bedoya, Catalina Muñoz, Noor Nieftagodien, Mina Ibrahim, Arwa Labidi, Jimena Perry,  Cyntia Simioni França, Inti Artuero, María Lucía Abbattista, Susana de Luque, Mutanu Kyanya

      ➜ Panel 21: The Power of public history in national parks - Room 3.100

Rebecca Wingo (Chair)

Gregory Smoak, Alexandra Mosquin and Joan Zenzen

      ➜ Panel 22: Public History from the audience's perspective. On the perception of newly opened museums in North Macedonia, Poland and Germany - Room 3.070

Clarissa J. Ceglio (Chair)

Zofia Wóycicka, Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Michalina Musielak and Naum Trajanovski

       ➜ Panel 23: Participation and Inclusion in public history - Auditorium 3.110

Valerie Schafer (Chair)

Jan-Christian Wilkening, Inclusion and public history: Dissecting a complex relationship

Violeta Tsenova, Infrastructuring public history  

Ewa Swietlik, Challenges of public participation in retro gaming associations and private video game and computer museums  

Lukas Schretter, Pathways to impact – Evaluating the results and societal effects of participatory research in history. A case study on the former Lebensborn maternity home Wienerwald in Austria, 1938-1945

 

15:30-17:00 | Session 8

      ➜ Workshop 2: How to decide between a variety of public history journals? - Room 3.100

Frédéric Clavert, Sarah H. Case, Marko Demantowsky, Rabea Rittgerodt, David Dean and Andreas Etges

      ➜ Panel 24: Public history and web history: Singular and collective experiences, uses and memories - Room 3.120

Valerie Schafer (Chair)

Gabriele Balbi, Niels Brügger, Susan Aasman, Nathalie Fridzema, Serge Noiret and Anat Ben-David

      ➜ Panel 25: “Crafting industrial heritage as public history” - Room 3.070

Natalia Martins De Oliveira Gonçalves (Chair)

Donna Graves, Benjamin Anderson, Hanno Hochmuth and Jula Kugler

      ➜ Panel 26: Restitution beyond the objects: rethinking the return of African cultural heritage - Auditorium 3.040

Stefan Krebs (Chair)

Richard Legay, Deconstructing narratives of restitution of African cultural heritage in the media

Rebecca Ohene-Asah, Immaterial African heritage kept in European museums: entanglements between Germany and Ghana

Zainab Shallangwa, Exploring the local perception of the restitution issue in Benin City, Nigeria

         

September 6 (Friday)

9:00-10:30 | Keynote and Presidential Address

      ➜ Keeping their memory alive together: the Digital Memorial of the Shoah in Luxembourg - Auditorium 3.520

Blandine Landau and Laurent Moyse

 

11:00-12:30 | Session 9

      ➜ Panel 27: Public sport history and community sport - Room 3.070

Aliénor Gandanger (Chair)

Tanya Evans and Jodie Wills,Gendered experiences of community sport in NSW

Stephen Townsend, Playing the Brain Game: Public Histories of Sports Concussion

Guy Hansen, Grassroots: Community sport collections at the National Library of Australia

Keith Rathbone, Why do you move a sports museum?: The decision to transfer the Sports Museum from Paris to Nice

Conor Heffernan, On Being a 'Soy Boy': Doing Public History in Online Fitness Spaces

 

      ➜ Workshop 3: Using Omeka S to create and publish linked data: A workshop for public historians - Room 3.100

Sharon Leon

      ➜ Panel 28: The use of oral history and personal memories in public history settings - Room 3.120

Marianna Tavares (Chair)

Anne Heimo and Ene Kõresaar, On Limits of Multiperspectivity: Exhibiting First-Person Narratives in Finnish and Estonian Museums

Iben Vyff, Personal narratives at public history museums

Kirsti Joesalu, “Queering difficult history": on using LGBT+ stories in Vabamu Museum of Occupation and Freedom

Malin Thor Tureby, The use and non-use of archived life stories from survivors of the Holocaust in public history settings in Sweden

      ➜ Panel 29: The radical roots of public history - Room 3.110

Elizabeth Belanger (Chair)

Abigail Gautreau, Kristen Baldwin Deathridge, Elizabeth Belanger, Clarissa Ceglio and Craig Stutman

 

12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break

 

13:30-15:00 | Session 10

      ➜ Working Group 5: History and public policies working group - Room 3.120

Fabio Spirinelli, Laura Bothwell, Nick Juravich, Chantal Kesteloot, Christine Mayr, Lisa Murray, Natália Nascimento e Melo, Jason L. Schwartz, Jennifer Tucker and Camilla Zucchi

      ➜ Panel 30: Sustainability and shared authority - Auditorium 3.040

Catherine Fletcher (Chair)

Rebecca Wingo, Joëlla Van Donkersgoed, Douglas Seefeldt and Kenneth Cohen

      ➜ Panel 31: Oral history and digital public histories - Room 3.070

Victoria Hoyle (Chair)

Nasim Shiasi, The intersection of oral history and architectural restoration: Recognition and implementation of forgotten techniques

Mia Ridge and Charlie Morgan, Listening with machines? The challenges of AI for oral history and digital public history in libraries

Cassandra Marsillo, Dalla valigia alla tavola: Recipes and oral histories from Montreal's molisani

Andrew Flinn and Julianne Nyhan, Exploring uncertainty and laughter in oral histories – multimodal digital oral history approaches

      ➜ Panel 32: Interactive and theatrical pasts - Room 3.100

David Dean (Chair)

James Deutsch, Magic on the Mall: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival and public folklore

Andreas Etges, To make the sources talk: The Cuban Missile Crisis on stage

Dany Guay-Belanger, Play(ing) memory: Oral history, materiality, and videogame history  

Daniel Gomes De Carvalho, Bruno Leal Pastor De Carvalho and Rafael Santesso Verdasca, Two public history projects in Brazil: the edition of Café Historia and Historia Pirata

 

15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break

 

15:30-17:00 | Session 11

      ➜ Workshop 4: The biography of Amsterdam: How to teach your students to make a history documentary in four weeks - Room 3.120

Paul Knevel and Laura Van Hasselt

      ➜ Panel 33: Ashamed: What happens when you discover that the perpetrator of genocide is from your family? - Room 3.100

Andreas Fickers (Chair)

Loreto Urraca, Javier Vaca and Helena Salas Cossio 

      ➜ Panel 34: Statues, street names, and the old order: what to do with visible remnants of an uncomfortable past - Room 3.040

Neslihan Dogan (Chair)

Muriel Blaive, Lavinia Stan, José Faraldo and Pavel Karous

      ➜ Panel 35: Politics and public history: challenge and conflict - Room 3.110

Richard Legay (Chair)

Munazza Ebtikar, Memory politics and memoricide in post-2021 Afghanistan

Renske de Vries, Remorse, responsibility and guilt: the governmental apology in Dutch politics of history 2020-2023

Olivia Dobbs, Subverting and reinforcing the heritage discourse of Japan's “Battleship Island”: Two museums' engagement with Fu no Isan, identity, and memory

Jerome De Groot, Towards a theory of Conservative public history

      ➜ Panel 36: Legacy collections and climate change - Room 3.070

Christine Dupont (Chair)

Kathleen Franz, Alexandra Lord, Tony C Perry, Abeer Saha and Harold Wallace

 

17:15-21:00 | Closing Session 

      ➜ Feierôwend! Public History in Action