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.

September 3 (Tuesday) 

12:00-18:00 | Registration Open

14:00-17:00 | Roundtables

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

      ➜ Public history and the arts (David Dean and Myriam Dalal)

18:30-20:00| Keynote and Conference Opening

       ➜ Welcome (Thomas Cauvin)

       ➜ Opening by the IFPH President (Tanya Evans)

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

 

September 4 (Wednesday)

8:00-9:00   | Registration 

9:00-10:30 | Session 1

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

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

Christine Gundermann, Annika Häberlein, Samantha Bornheim and Nils Steffen

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

Anne Parsons, Nataliia Ivchyk and Yurii Kaparulin

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

Victoria Hoyle, Ruth Beecher, Rhea Sookdeosingh and Ailise Bulfin

 

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

Rhianne Morgan, Jack Crangle, Pete Hodson and Shonagh Joice

      ➜ Panel 6: Public history, participation, interpretation and museums

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

Frank Golding, 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

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

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: Redefining authority in museums: navigating challenges and positionalities in participatory history-making Working Group

Camilla Portesani, Olwen Purdue, Serge Noiret, Jimena Perry, Monica Eileen Patterson, Tina De Gendt, Emile Sitzia, Christine Dupont and Primavera Gomes Caldas

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

Alexandra Kolesnik, Aleksandr Rusanov, Oleg Morozov and Vladislav Staf

      ➜ 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.

Sarah Mason, Sinead Burns and Livi Dee

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

Eleanor Q Neil, Maria Hadjigavriel and Autumn Brown

 

15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break

 

15:30-17:00 | Session 4

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

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

      ➜ Panel 12: The Sensational Museum

Sophie Vohra, Hannah Thompson and Charlotte Slark

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

Francesca Salvatore, Fernanda Barbosa dos Santos, Aleksandra Kolaković and Manon Mortier

      ➜ Working Group 2: Silence as a strategy of resilience: dealing with contested histories 

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

 

17:30-19:00 | General Assembly

 

September 5 (Thursday)

9:00-10:30 | Session 5

      ➜ Working Group 3: Student and early career professionals

HennShuyang Song, Grace McDowell, Alexandra Zaremba Panić, Joanna Wojdon, Tabea Henn, Cécile Dubuis, Dany Guay-Bélanger and Takuya Tokuhara

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

Sofia Papastamkou, Tugce Karatas, Mattia Poggi and Petros Apostolopoulos

      ➜ Panel 15: Walking and watching public history

Anita Lucchesi, Rio's carnival as a public history spectacle: (Un)learning official history with the 'Heróis de Barracão'

Tina De Gendt, This is not a safari. Organizing guided tours on the edge of the city

Peter Cole, Using public art history 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

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

Chiara Marin, Marzia Breda, Elena Santi and Sofia Talas

      ➜ Panel 18: Doing online exhibitions

Stefan Krebs, Christoph Brüll, Maude Williams, Christine Szkiet and Irmgard Zündorf

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

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

Eva Willems, Public history and conflict archives: The methodological and ethical challenges of preserving records of violence

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

 

13:30-15:00 | Session 7

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

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

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

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

       ➜ Panel 23: Participation and Inclusion in public history

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?

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

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

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

Donna Graves, Benjamin Anderson, Hanno Hochmuth and Jula Kugler

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

Richard Legay, Rebecca Ohene-Asah and Zainab Shallangwa

         

September 6 (Friday)

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

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

Blandine Landau and Laurent Moyse

 

11:00-12:30 | Session 9

      ➜ Panel 27: Public sport history and community sport

Tanya Evans, Conor Heffernan, Stephen Townsend, Guy Hansen and Keith Rathbone

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

Sharon Leon

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

Ene Kõresaar, Iben Vyff, Anne Heimo, Kirsti Joesalu and Malin Thor Tureby

      ➜ Panel 29: The radical roots of public history

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

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

      ➜ Panel 30: Sustainability and shared authority

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

      ➜ Panel 31: Oral history and digital public histories

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

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

Paul Knevel and Laura Van Hasselt

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

Loreto Urraca, Verónica Estay, Katrin Himmler and Javier Vaca

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

Muriel Blaive, Lavinia Stan, José Faraldo and Pavel Karous

      ➜ Panel 35: Politics and public history: challenge and conflict

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

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

 

17:30-21:00 | Closing Session 

      ➜ Feirôwend! Public History in Action