Category: Historiography

L’Histoire Publique comme histoire du temps présent

La conception du temps historique a été profondément débattue et repensée depuis la fin du XXe siècle surtout en raison de la chute du communisme soviétique et de ce que Francis Fukuyama écrivit sur la fin de l’histoire avec le triomphe des démocraties libérales et du capitalisme et l’avènement d’un présent perpétuel d’un ordre économique libéral. Dans le cadre de notre intervention nous ne prétendons pas résumer ce débat pluridisciplinaire sur le présentisme ravivé en France par François Hartog il y a une vingtaine d’années mais seulement commenter en quoi la Public History se positionne par rapport aux différentes temporalités du passé et aux mémoires collectives.

Obituary Peter Hertner, Professor of Economic and Social History at the Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle-Wittenberg (1942-2023)

Peter Hertner was born in 1942, in Ulm in Southern Germany. He studied in Heidelberg, Besançon, Basel, Strasbourg, Paris, and Marburg where he was awarded his diploma in economics in 1968, and he also obtained his PhD in 1971, with a dissertation on the economic and social history of Strasbourg, 1650-1715. He was an assistant professor at the Department of Social and Economic History in Marburg, from 1970 until 1977.

A Review of Public in Public History, edited by Joanna Wojdon & Dorota Wiśnievska, London, Routledge, 2022

This very welcome collection of essays collected by Joanna Wojdon, an associate professor at the Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, and a research assistant, Dorota Wiśniewska, has been published in the Routledge Global studies on Public History series. They deal with the concept of “public” which characterizes Public History (from now on PH) as a sub-discipline inside history.

La rivista “Ricerche Storiche” e gli albori della public history in Italia

Da una decina d’anni ormai, «Ricerche Storiche» (d’ora in avanti RS) è diventata in Italia una delle riviste di storia più attenta agli sviluppi della Public History (d’ora in avanti PH). Quando questo interesse è nato e in quali circostanze? E, soprattutto, come rintracciare eventualmente forme ancora inconsapevoli di PH nei cinquant’anni di storia della rivista? La domanda non è banale e prima di cercare di rispondere in questo intervento, non ero affatto sicuro di trovare dei semi intellettuali e metodologici che avrebbero potuto fare pensare ad una filiazione naturale tra ieri ed oggi.

La Public History: innovazioni metodologiche e prospettive divulgative nella scienza storica. Una discussione nella rivista “Storia e Futuro”

SeF: Cominciamo da una semplice questione di definizione e di metodo: come definirebbe la Public History, tanto in positivo quanto in negativo? Cosa è, ma anche cosa “non è”, la Public History? […].

Public History internazionale e uso-abuso della storia nei musei

This post is written in Italian and served as an introduction to the Memoria e Ricerca 2017 issue on History Museums and Public History. The papers we present were selected from panel presentations delivered during the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) 2ndinternational conference in Jinan, China in August 2015, which was part of the 22nd Conference of the International Committee for the Historical Sciences (ICHS).

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