Inaugural Conference of the European Network of Public History Masters Programmes, organised by students on the MA in Public History programmes at Queen's University Belfast and the University of York
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Date(s)
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June 13, 2024 - June 14, 2024
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Location
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The Graduate School, Queen's University Belfast
Thursday 13 June
Queen's University Graduate School, TR2
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Event |
| 11.00-12.30 |
Public History in Practice: Infrastructuring participation and community engagement workshop
Camilla Portesani and Dr Rhianne Morgan (PHACS Project - University of Luxembourg)
Implementing participation and working with diverse publics and communities can sometimes be challenging. Discover through this hands-on workshop with two public historians the strategies, tricks and skills needed to facilitate your missions and practice!
Register for workshop here.
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| 12.30-13.30 |
Lunch & Conference Registration |
| 13.40-14.55 |
Panel 1 Contested Pasts, Multiple Voices
- Edoardo Bastianini (CEU), Political-sponsored institutionalisation of the Italian Resistance: The Institute Alcide Cervi. 1972-2008
- Pearse Grimes (UL), The Connaught Rangers: a case study in public commemoration
- Elia Sanchez (Erasmus), Rethinking Queer public history: beyond essentialism and towards liberation
- Benjamin Harris (QUB), An oral history of immigrants to Belfast after the Good Friday Agreement
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| 15.00-16.15 |
Panel 2 Creative Approaches to Public History
- Kayley Porter (Derby), Who Will Stand in This Place: How interlinking creative practices and public history are creating new ways of memorialising hidden histories
- Fedor Topolev-Soldunov (York), ’The taste of battle, the smell of siege… and bread’. Looking at sensory history of war through Leningraders’ Siege Diaries
- Amelia Craik (UCL), My father ‘bleeds’ history: Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’ as a case study in history-making for the public historian
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| 17.00-18.00 |
Keynote lecture
- Dr Thomas Cauvin, There shall be hope: the 1001 reasons to study and practice public history
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| 18.00-19.00 |
Drinks reception |
Friday 14 June
Queen's University Graduate School, TR5
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Event |
| 9.30-10.00 |
Breakfast
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| 10.00-11.30 |
The Future is Research’ – PhD & Postdoc Panel
- Dr Myriam Dalal (University of Luxembourg)
- Alienor Gandanger (University of Luxembourg)
- Annika Häberlein (University of Cologne, SYP)
- Dr Rhianne Morgan (University of Luxembourg & QUB)
- Camilla Portesani (University of Luxembourg)
- Marianna Tavares (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
- Esther Wilson (University of York)
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| 12.00-13.15 |
Panel 3: Visual & digital histories
- Katherine Porter (UCL), YouTube and digital public history
- Robin Maillard (Besançon), The Label Hérodote Association
- Katie Blackwood (UL), Archival donation as public history: care, affect, and emotion work in the National Irish Visual Arts Library
- Julia Chaffers (UCL), Denver South High School confederate mascot
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| 13.15-14.15 |
Lunch
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| 14.15-15.30 |
Panel 4: Physical Sites of Memory
- Charo Havermans (UCL), PUBlic History
- Galin Nenov (Derby), Contested shadows: Exploring the legacy of Socialist monuments in contemporary Bulgaria
- Deirdre McGuirk (UL), Cilliní as Sites of Conscience in modern Ireland: community, memory and social justice
- Victoria Sood (Derby), Preserving through Partnerships? Exploring whether Haiti has benefited from UNESCO’s Environmental policies
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| 15.30-15.45 |
Closing Remarks |
- Event type
- Conference / Symposium