Our main concern with these lectures are their lack of a public approach, with the exception of Manon Parry. They were more focussed on the historical aspect of the sound archives and less on the pragmatic solutions to make them more approachable for the larger public. The presentations lacked interactive components that a vivid presentation, […]
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Session 2: Scholarly Editing in a Digital World: Pushing the Boundaries
In this session three leading American scholarly editors, all experienced proponents of born-digital scholarly editions, address questions central to the future of scholarly editing. It generally dealt with the future, possibilities and problem of scholarly editing in a digital world. The three speakers have extensive experience in the world of born-digital scholarly editions which allows […]
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One of the most difficult dilemma’s a public historian can find on his path is the one which concerns the role that people might play in making history. In respect of the central theme of this conference, the participants of this session tried to show how the internet and digital tools might strengthen the participatory […]
On Genealogy
The keynote lecture delivered by Jerome De Groot was quite an energetic kick-off to the IFPH 2014 conference on ‘Public history in a digital world’. De Groot focused on the topic of genealogy to unlock a broad field of themes relating to historical practices outside academia. In this blog, we want to elaborate on three […]
Session 1: Making history public
In this first session we heard lectures by Hinke Piersma, Petra Links and Kees Ribbens, all associated to NIOD, the institute for war, holocaust and genocide-studies in the Netherlands. The aim of the session was to reflect on the ways sensitive topics about war have been made public in the 20th century. Also the panel […]
Telling History in Print and in Digital Form
During the lecture titled “Telling history in print and in digital form”, three public historians hailing from the United States of America elaborated on their experiences in using either digital or printed media to reach a certain public for their research. Firstly, Charles Romney explained briefly the app he developed to give a new approach […]
Tweets and memories
We live in a time when our information landscape is quickly changing. We can access information via internet more easily and quickly. As public historians we try keep up the pace to reach our public via social media. For me, as an historian, I find it hard to tell stories through social media. I love […]
Lost in sources
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 […]
I just love talking with people
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 […]