Coord.: Jesús IZQUIERDO MARTÍN (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Nicolas MORALES (EHEHI - Casa de Velázquez)
Org.: École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Registration closed since december 3 2018
Workshop dates: 21th-22nd january 2019
Venue:
Casa de Velázquez
C/ Paul Guinard, 3
28040 Madrid
Presentation
During the last thirty years, Public History has established itself as a discipline in its own right, simultaneously questioning the institutional historiographical practices, the epistemological and social status of the historian’s authority, and the role of people as potential history makers. Nowadays however, the original issues that were debated and led to the development of Public History have changed greatly, going beyond the initial framework that linked the production of scholarly knowledge and public knowledge. Since the 1990s, the outbreak of the “Memory Boom” on an international scale has broadened perspectives, as public requests for memoires have allowed access for new individuals, whilst also giving rise to new tensions, and even competitive “memory wars,” which show cleaved or antagonistic systems of Public History appropriation.
Furthermore, the link between knowledge, power and democracy has become of unprecedented importance, and is now at the heart of the ongoing Public History debates. The acknowledgment of non-academic audiences as fully-fledged actors in the production of history represents a new horizon for citizen engagement, and opens up the possibility of a participatory approach to the practice of history, or even direct democracy. Public History practices can also be claimed as counter-history and alternative historical knowledge can appear as a counter-power.
This activity aims to analyze the emerging historiographical, political, social and cultural challenges in Public History, and also intends to identify new actors and to map the renewal of contemporary methods of collective appropriation in the past.
Guest speakers and trainers
- Noelia ADÁNEZ
Political scientist, Radio Contratiempo and Onda Cero, Spain - Catherine BRICE
Historian, University of Paris Est-Créteil - Alfons CERVERA
Writer, Spain - Maryline CRIVELLO
Historian, Aix Marseille University - David FERNÁNDEZ DE ARRIBA
Historian, web Historia y Comics, Spain - Jean-Yves LE NAOUR
Historian, Scriptwriter, Filmmaker, France - Nicolas OFFENSTADT
Historian, University of Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris 1
Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine - Federico PEÑATE DOMÍNGUEZ
Universidad Compluitense de Madrid - Fernando SÁNCHEZ CASTILLO
Artist, Spain
Registration closed since december 3 2018
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