Minningarfyrirlestur Jóns Sigurðssonar: Thomas Cauvin

Thomas Cauvin, lektor við Lúxemborgarháskóla, flytur Minningarfyrirlestur Jóns Sigurðssonar 2024 á vegum Sagnfræðistofnunar Háskóla Íslands. Yfirskrift erindisins er „History at work : A few ways to make history more public.”

Haldið í stofu 105 á Háskólatorgi, fimmtudaginn 26. september kl. 15:30-17:00. Verið öll velkomin.

Um fyrirlesturinn

There has been a significant change in how knowledge is produced, shared, and discussed with the public, including in the field of historical research. This change is not just about using social media to share history; it represents a deeper reconsideration of the purpose, methods, and people involved in doing history. In this talk, I will examine the development of public history over the past decade, focusing on the increasing emphasis on collaboration between trained historians and the public. I will discuss how these partnerships are shaping the coproduction of historical knowledge in cultural and digital spaces.

Um fyrirlesarann

Thomas Cauvin is Associate Professor of Public History at the University of Luxembourg and the Head of the Public History Department at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History – C2DH. He is a FNR-ATTRACT Fellow and leads the Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) project. Cauvin is the Director of the newly created Master in Digital and Public History (MADiPH) at the University of Luxembourg ; he has been the President of the International Federation for Public History from 2018 to 2021. He received his PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy, 2012) and worked for several years in the United States at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2013-2017) and Colorado State University (2017-2020). He is the author of Public History. A Textbook of Practice (Routledge, 2022, second edition) and several articles and book chapters on public history.