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 […]
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 […]