Agenda

Thomas Cauvin 
University of Luxembourg

Abstract
Based on old practices, public history is an overall change of paradigm that aims to make historical research more accessible, more engaging, and increasingly more participatory. Symbolizing a broader public and participatory turn in the humanities, public history raises questions on the changing role of historians. In this presentation, I explore the multiple gains, but also the challenges, that public history practitioners are facing while developing collaborative and participatory projects. I will discuss the reasons that support broader collaboration, between different disciplines, as well as between professionals and non professionals to develop more inclusive and representative historical research. Interdisciplinary study, interpretation, and representation of the past – in particular through the collaboration between historians and artists – can help making history more accessible. As for co-creation with the broader public, I will show how applying citizen science approach can develop public participation further in historical research.

Bio
Thomas Cauvin is Associate Professor of Public History at the University of Luxembourg. He he leads the Public History Department of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History – C²DH – and is Director of the newly created Master in Digital and Public History (MADiPH). He is a Luxembourg FNR-ATTRACT Fellow and leads the Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) project (2020-2025). Former President of the International Federation for Public History, Cauvin is the author of Public History. A Textbook of Practice (Routledge, 2022, second edition) and several articles and book chapters on public history.

The event is part of the seminar series organized by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. It will be held in person and online.

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