Today at 9 AM one of the last lectures of the IFPH 2014 was in the Compagnietheater. The lecture ‘Public History and Access to Sources’ was presented by Sandra Toffolo (collaborator at the European University Institute Florence), Francesca Morselli (researcher at Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) and chairwoman Connie Schulz (Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Department of […]
Author: Public History Student
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My final stop at this conference day was the Poster Presentations. Here, young public historians and students presented their theses and (digital) public history projects. A master student in Education who let their secondary school students take selfies with an historical item (from churches to grandparents and from trees to their own primary school) to […]
Poster Presentations
At the end of this amazing second day of the Public History Conference, I visited the Poster Presentations at the Exhibit Hall of the Compagnietheater. Seven public history projects were presented by historians, variating from collecting material about AIDS patients in the 80s to mapping military heritage spots in the Netherlands. While walking around this […]
Useful tools for public historians – mapping history
The four speakers on ‘useful tools for public history’ showed us different opportunities the digital world has to offer. All shared stories of successful projects based on mapping and reliving the past at specific geographical locations. First up were Christine Bartlitz and Nadine Kurschat who talked about two projects based in Berlin; audiowalk ‘kudamm’31’ and […]
A transnational Europe
Inventing Europe was one of the most interesting projects I have seen at this conference so far. Not because it was completely finished, but exactly because it wasn’t. Inventing Europe is an online digital museum for science and technology. During the session, presenter and project manager Suzanne Lommers argued that their main goal is to […]
Mobile and Time-based Innovations
The usage of apps is becoming more common in historical spheres. Many historical institutions and museums have their own app that is complementing the exhibits or projects. Besides apps, the digital age offers a lot of new oppotunities for historians to engage with the quickly changing historical audience. These new ways of making history public […]
New media tools- Brazilian Perspective
One of the first sessions of the second day started out very digital. With Juliana Bastos Marques reflecting on the use of Wikipedia by Public Historians and Anita Lucchesi talking about the Rio450 project. Juliana Bastos Marques started by pointing out the fact that Wikipedia was presented as a ‘new’ media tool but is around […]
Digital History = Public History !?
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 […]
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 […]