Public History in Practice: Infrastructuring participation and community engagement workshop

Camilla Portesani and Dr Rhianne Morgan (PHACS Project - University of Luxembourg)

Implementing participation and working with diverse publics and communities can sometimes be challenging. Discover through this hands-on workshop with two public historians the strategies, tricks and skills needed to facilitate your missions and practice!

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• Edoardo Bastianini (CEU), Political-sponsored institutionalisation of the Italian Resistance: The Institute Alcide Cervi. 1972-2008
• Pearse Grimes (UL), The Connaught Rangers: a case study in public commemoration
• Elia Sanchez (Erasmus), Rethinking Queer public history: beyond essentialism and towards liberation
• Benjamin Harris (QUB), An oral history of immigrants to Belfast after the Good Friday Agreement

Panel 2 Creative Approaches to Public History

• Kayley Porter (Derby), Who Will Stand in This Place: How interlinking creative practices and public history are creating new ways of memorialising hidden histories
• Fedor Topolev-Soldunov (York), ’The taste of battle, the smell of siege… and bread’. Looking at sensory history of war through Leningraders’ Siege Diaries
• Amelia Craik (UCL), My father ‘bleeds’ history: Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’ as a case study in history-making for the public historian

Keynote lecture

• Dr Thomas Cauvin, There shall be hope: the 1001 reasons to study and practice public history

Breakfast

• Dr Myriam Dalal (University of Luxembourg)
• Alienor Gandanger (University of Luxembourg)
• Annika Häberlein (University of Cologne, SYP)
• Dr Rhianne Morgan (University of Luxembourg & QUB)
• Camilla Portesani (University of Luxembourg)
• Marianna Tavares (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
• Esther Wilson (University of York)                            

• Katherine Porter (UCL), YouTube and digital public history
• Robin Maillard (Besançon), The Label Hérodote Association
• Katie Blackwood (UL), Archival donation as public history: care, affect, and emotion work in the National Irish Visual Arts Library
• Julia Chaffers (UCL), Denver South High School confederate mascot

Lunch

• Charo Havermans (UCL), PUBlic History
• Galin Nenov (Derby), Contested shadows: Exploring the legacy of Socialist monuments in contemporary Bulgaria
• Deirdre McGuirk (UL), Cilliní as Sites of Conscience in modern Ireland: community, memory and social justice
• Victoria Sood (Derby), Preserving through Partnerships? Exploring whether Haiti has benefited from UNESCO’s Environmental policies