From 5th to 9th June 2016, the fourth international annual conference of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) will be held at the University of Bologna, Cultural Heritage Department (Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali) located on the Campus of the city of Ravenna. The conference is organized in co-partnership with the first national branch of the IFPH, the Italian Association for Public History (Associazione italiana di Public History) (AIPH), created in Rome in June 2016. The AIPH will hold its first national conference (see its own CFP) with sessions in Italian during the 4th IFPH conference.
The IFPH international conference in Ravenna will bring together practitioners, experts and activists from all over the world to discuss and share their experiences in the many challenges and rewards involved in engaging with the public to diffuse historical knowledge. The conference will not be limited to a specific theme but, on the contrary, will engage with the very different public history activities. So, proposals may present examples of historians’ engagement with communities through different media, building different forms of narratives and looking at different public uses of the past.
Possible topics may include:
Museums and Exhibiting the Past
Oral History and Community Projects
Digital Public History
Participatory Knowledge: Social Media, Mobile App and User-Generated Contents
Moving Images and documentaries
Public History and the use of Photography
Historical Fiction
Re-enactments and Living History
Historic Preservation and Community Cultural Heritage
Identity and Memory issues
Public Commemorations
Public Archaeology
Public Policies and Applied History
Teaching Public History
Current debates related to public history as a practice
How to create national associations of public history?
Who are the Public Historians in Europe?
How to foster Public History as a discipline in Europe?
Is there a European Public History?
Submission:
Both individual papers and session proposals (90 minutes each) are welcome. Session proposals should include a general abstract for the session, the name of the session’s coordinator as well as abstracts for all individual papers.
Please send your proposal of no more than 150 words, as well as any questions or inquiries, to the following email: pubhisint@gmail.com
Deadline for all proposals is 30th November 2016
Complete call for paper: https://ifph.hypotheses.org/1141