NATIONAL FORGETTING AND MEMORY: THE DESTRUCTION OF "NATIONAL" MONUMENTS FROM A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Speeches/Talks (2021)

The Fall of Monuments: a Public History Monuments have, for a few years now, been hitting the headlines all over the world. Public debates do not focus so much on the erection of new monuments as they do ... [more ▼]

The Fall of Monuments: a Public History Monuments have, for a few years now, been hitting the headlines all over the world. Public debates do not focus so much on the erection of new monuments as they do on acts of vandalism, removal, and destruction. If destructions of monuments are not new – for example during the French Revolution – their multiple examples all around the world (United States, England, Australia, Spain, Argentina, South Africa for instance) raise questions about their origins, meanings, and consequences. In my presentation, I propose to understand those synchronous destructions and removals through the angle of public history. Developed as a process to include publics into its production, interpretation, and communication, public history helps to better understand the issues at stake in destroying monuments. In the words of Ludmilla Jordanova, the past is more than ever considered as a public property subject to many different interpretations. Remembering and interpreting the past has become more democratic, more participatory, more diverse but has also shacked power relations. New participatory practices have impacted how we memorialize and interpret the past at official levels. Questions such as who owns the past and who can decide what historical events, actors can be remembered through monuments are being reconsidered. In this reinvention of our relations to monuments – and indirectly to the past – I propose to reconsider the role of historians. I argue that more than simply interpreting the past, historians can help communities deciding what to do with (unwanted) monuments [less ▲]

Contributor: Creating Public History Master Programs: International Guidelines

Diverse speeches and writings (2021)

Discussion on History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s by Malgorzata J Rymsza-Pawlowska

Speeches/Talks (2021)

Interactive and participative approaches to storytelling: experiences and visions

Conference given outside the academic context (2021)

Interactive and participative approaches to storytelling: experiences and visions • Sandra Camarda, University of Luxembourg, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History: Interactive Narratives and ... [more ▼]

Interactive and participative approaches to storytelling: experiences and visions • Sandra Camarda, University of Luxembourg, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History: Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling: an Insight on the Digital Exhibitions at the C²DH • Thomas Cauvin, University of Luxembourg, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, President of the International Federation for Public History: Public History and Museum Participation • Tina De Gendt, Stadsmuseum Gent: The Square Kilometre – Zooming in on the City through a Participation Project • Gilles Genot, Lëtzebuerg City Museum: Participatory Approaches for the temporary exhibition “Associations of the city of Luxembourg” • Discussion [less ▲]

Communication, public engagement and public history

Scientific Conference (2020, November 06)

La Public History à Esch

Scientific Conference (2020, October 09)

Campo nuevo, prácticas viejas: promesas y desafíos de la historia pública

in HISPANIA NOVA (2020), 1(Nº 1 Extraordinario. Año 2020), 7-51

International Public History: an Introduction 7th meeting of the Japanese Public History Association

Report (2020)

Undergraduate Public History Teaching: How and Why it Can Change University History Training

in International Public History (2019)

Le Choix de Théo

Report (2017)

Entrez dans l'univers de Theo Brode qui, comme tant d'autres en Louisiane, a choisi d'apprendre, de parler et de préserver la langue de ses ancêtres cajuns, créoles et autres francophones. Le Choix de ... [more ▼]

Entrez dans l'univers de Theo Brode qui, comme tant d'autres en Louisiane, a choisi d'apprendre, de parler et de préserver la langue de ses ancêtres cajuns, créoles et autres francophones. Le Choix de Théo est un documentaire sur la langue française dans le sud-ouest de la Louisiane et la lutte pour la préservation d'un patrimoine en péril aux États-Unis. [less ▲]