The last round of sessions on day one of the IFPH Conference was about to start. In OMHP 2.01C was the session Digital History=Public History!? taking place but at starting time the room was still nearly empty. Probably conversations during the coffee break were really good, or maybe it was the coffee itself. Anyway, while […]
Author: Public History Student
Telling history in print and in digital form
During the lecture ‘Telling history in print and in digital form, promises and perils of digital history are considered. Jennifer Koslow point out that historians can make the most out of the possibilities which the Internet offers for interactivity. Furthermore she states that a graphic approach can be very useful if you aren’t good with […]
Europe’s commemoration of WWI
Before we started, our chairman Serge Noiret introduced several good examples of a digital approach to the commemoration of WWI in Europe. Especially the interactive map that has been developed by The Guardian deserves some credit, it is really accurate and sophisticated. After this rather optimistic start, he ended with a question which embodied everyone […]
Citizen and Community History
This afternoon Annemarie de Wildt (curator at the Amsterdam Museum), Lonnie Stegink (head of the resource centre of the Joods Historisch Museum) and Mia Ridge (research fellow at Trinity College, Dublin) spoke about Citizen and Community History. The three professionals talked about their experiences with the cooperation with citizens and communities within society. How is […]
Sound Archives and the History of Medicine in the Public Sphere
The fourth session of today’s conference dealt with the topic of sound archives, auditory memory, and new strategies to make the history of medicine public. The three presenters focused on the creation and usage of sound archives, as well as making them public. Viktoria Tkaczyk unfortunately could not attend the conference, however, Carolyn Birdsall bravely […]
The pressing need for decent presentations
Today at the IFPH conference I was once again struck by the apparent incapability of historians to make something else then an article or a book. I was looking forward to the talks, hoping to get inspired by passionate stories about projects and research programs. However, the presentations consisted of historians reading their paper out […]
Public Historians and Sensitive Stories
This morning Hinke Piersma (NIOD) told the attendees of the conference about her research project concerning the policy of the government of Amsterdam after the Second World War. How was it possible that the government behaved as it did, and ignored what happened to the victims? This research has a highly sensitive subject, the persecution […]