The Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, Poland (IH UWr), Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre, and the International Federation for Public History invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to share their research in the framework of the fourth Public History Summer School to be held online, 31 May-4 June 2021.

Presentation

If you are interested in how history functions in the public sphere, the summer school will give you an opportunity to broaden your interests and enrich your experience. The event will combine lectures, workshops and debates concerning methodology and specific case studies delivered by specialists from the IH UWr and invited guests from other universities, as well as presentations of individual and collaborative research projects.

We strongly encourage graduate and postgraduate students, professionals, as well as those without institutional affiliation but conducting interesting public history projects to submit their proposals in English. The proposals may include (but need not be limited to):

- Ethical aspects of doing history

- Historical narratives

- History & politics

- History & memory

- E-history

- Digital humanities

- Oral history

- Visual history

- Museums, exhibitions, archives

- Festivals and reenactments

- History of education

- Historical journalism

- Popularisation of history

- History & media

- History-related games

- Project management

Schedule and application

• April 11, 2021 – deadline for sending research projects proposals

• April 30, 2021 – notification as to whether your proposal has been accepted; publication of the preliminary summer school programme
• May 30, 2021 – deadline for registration if you do not present your project, but you would like to participate in the summer school; publication of the final summer school programme
• May 30-June 4, 2021 – the summer school

Apply here: https://forms.gle/iQoY7dvygqZVpwHh9

Organisation Committee

• Joanna Wojdon
• Dorota Wiśniewska
• Marta Kopiniak

Scientific Committee

• Catherine Brice (Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne University)
• Thomas Cauvin (University of Luxembourg, president of the International Federation for Public History)
• Wojciech Kucharski (Zajezdnia History Centre)
• Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska (American University)
• Przemysław Wiszewski (University of Wrocław)