{"id":6841,"date":"2024-09-16T06:27:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T04:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/public-historians-unite-c%c2%b2dh-hosts-the-7th-world-conference-of-the-international-federation-for-public-history\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:06:45","slug":"public-historians-unite-c%c2%b2dh-hosts-the-7th-world-conference-of-the-international-federation-for-public-history","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/public-historians-unite-c%c2%b2dh-hosts-the-7th-world-conference-of-the-international-federation-for-public-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Historians Unite: C\u00b2DH Hosts the 7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From September 3 to 6, the C\u00b2DH at the University of Luxembourg, the headquarters of the IFPH, hosted over 300 public historians. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The International Federation for Public History (IFPH) is an organisation that aspires to create international links between public historians and promote the development of a global network of Public History practitioners. The federation’s primary purpose is to encourage, promote and coordinate, at an international level, contacts, teaching and research in public history. The IFPH 2024 conference welcomed speakers and attendees from over 37 countries including Ireland, Palestine, Brazil, Japan, Australia, Mexico, India, Rwanda, and the United States.<\/p>\n\n

The conference marked several notable firsts, including being the inaugural IFPH event held in a hybrid format and earning a green event<\/a> badge for its commitment to sustainability. The fully hybrid approach was chosen to improve accessibility for those unable to attend in person and to minimize environmental impact, a key priority for the organizing committee. Catering utilized local food networks, and the event featured reusable and recycled materials, including name tags embedded with seeds to be planted after the conference.<\/p>\n\n

Across the 4 days there were 2 keynote addresses, 2 roundtables, 4 workshops, 5 working groups, 16 poster presentations and 36 panels. Sessions spanned across different themes, disciplines and global contexts including Public history and the arts, impact assessment, participatory practices, oral history, digital history, journalism, decolonization, inclusion, heritage, sport and politics. Each session was jam packed with valuable insights, ideas and reflections.<\/p>\n\n

The opening keynote address<\/a> entitled ‘A Sustainable Shared Authority. Ensuring the Future of Rondo\u2019s Past’ was given by Rebecca Wingo (Associate Professor of History and the Director of Public History at the University of Cincinnati) and Marvin Roger Anderson (community activist and key figure involved with ongoing efforts to celebrate the past, present and future of Saint Paul\u2019 African American community of Rondo). Blandine Landau and Laurent Moyse presented the closing keynote entitled ‘Keeping their memory alive together: the Digital Memorial of the Shoah in Luxembourg<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n\n\n

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