Book your calendars – the International Federation of Public History (IFPH) has launched their Call for papers (CFP) for the 2026 International Conference of Public History which will take place in September 2026.听

The 8th International Conference entitled, “The Public History of Difficult Pasts,” will be听 held in Lisbon, Portugal from September 7-11, 2026.听

Proposals are open now for panels, papers, and working groups:

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All submissions are due by Nov 30, 2025.

For more information please follow the IFPH at:

DATE: April 27, 2024

LOCATION: The event will be held in-person only at Library and Archives Canada, Alfred Pellan Room, 395 Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4.

REGISTRATION: Registration for the Symposium is now open, via

FEE: The registration fee is $15 for students and community members, and $45 for professionals. Fees include light refreshments, coffee, and lunch. Advanced registration will close on Tuesday, April 23rd. Pending early registrations, tickets at the door may be available for an additional $5 ($20 students and community, $50 professionals).

QUESTIONS: Please contact the 杏吧原创 Heritage Conservation Symposium Committee heritageconservationsymposium@cunet.carleton.ca

The full programme will be available April 15th. Please consider sharing this event with interested colleagues – PDF of event poster linked HERE.

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Public History Partnership Network (PHPN) Annual Reception

Wednesday April 3, 2024 at 6:30pm ET听

After a 5 year hiatus, we are pleased to announce the return of the Public History Partnership Network (PHPN) Annual Reception. Please RSVP to join us Wednesday April 3rd starting at 6:30pm for light refreshments, networking, and a brief program spotlighting some recent public history books, events, and student work.

The Public History Partnership Network (PHPN) connects Ottawa-area professionals, graduate students, and university faculty with an interest in public history. Besides nurturing a wide range of public history work both on- and off-campus, PHPN members include institutional partners who employ 杏吧原创’s history undergraduate and graduate students in practicum and internship courses. Our annual reception celebrates these relationships, provides updates on the 杏吧原创 Centre for Public History (CCPH), and highlights recent student work in public history. Most of all, the reception is an opportunity for conversation with both old and new friends. Event support provided by 杏吧原创’s Department of History, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the CCPH.

The PHPN reception is open to all current and former Public History students, faculty, CCPH members, and PHPN colleagues. Please share this invitation widely with other public history partners and friends.

Event Agenda:

PDF of event program

6:30pm Doors and Light Refreshments

7:00pm Program

• PHPN Welcome & Highlights by Dr. James Opp, Department of History
• Book Celebration with Dr. Tonya K. Davidson, Department of Sociology & Anthropology,
• Public History & Children’s Literature Roundtable Discussion, moderated by Rebecca Friend, Department of History (PhD Candidate, Public History)
  • Emily Lonie,
  • Krenare Recaj,
  • Valerie Kaiyang Wood,

Event Location / Time & Date:

Please join us Wednesday, April 3rd starting at 6:30 p.m. ET in the MacOdrum Library Room 252 – 杏吧原创 University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON. Click for a map of the library.

Event Registration:

Our event is free to attend but we kindly ask that you RSVP by March 29th 听

Click HERE to view and download a poster promoting the event

The Public History Partnership Network (PHPN) connects Ottawa-area professionals, graduate students, and university faculty with an interest in public history. Besides nurturing a wide range of public history work both on- and off-campus, PHPN members include institutional partners who employ 杏吧原创’s history undergraduate and graduate students in practicum and internship courses.

The annual reception celebrates these relationships, provides updates on the 杏吧原创 Centre for Public History (CCPH), and highlights recent student work in public history. Most of all, the reception is an opportunity for conversation with both old and new friends. With the generous support of 杏吧原创’s Department of History and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, we are pleased to be able to offer a range of refreshments and appetizers to all attendees.

This year we鈥檒l be holding our event on campus – exact location, program details, and event registration to be announced soon!

New CFP ‘

Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2023

Please send all correspondence, including questions and proposals, to听ShfgOhmar2013@gmail.com

The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) and Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) have announced a joint conference to be held April 4-5, 2023 at the National Archives II in College Park, Maryland.

The program committee invites participants to broadly interpret the conference theme, 鈥淧ublic History in the Digital Age.鈥� Topics might include the historiography of oral history practice and theory; the impact of technology on the practice and sharing of public history; the challenges of managing and distributing data in the digital age; the evolving relationship between public history and the web; oral history programs in federal history offices; and research in the history of the federal government. This expansive conference theme is intended to encourage a lively conversation among oral historians, archivists, and public historians.

The program committee invites entire panels and roundtables, as well as individual papers. We encourage presentations that include audio/visual components. We welcome proposals from graduate students, federal historians, public historians, archivists, oral historians,听information technology professionals, enterprise architects, and scholars from other disciplines.听We听encourage听panels composed of practitioners with a variety of backgrounds and experiences in these topics.

Paper proposals should include a brief abstract of 250-500 words, a biographical paragraph about the author, and contact information. Panel proposals should include brief abstracts for each paper as well as biographical paragraphs and contact information for each presenter.

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New Graduate Student CFP ‘History in Conversation: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity’

Deadline for proposals: January 20, 2023听

Please submit your abstracts to UnderhillColloquium@cunet.carleton.ca听by January 20th, 2023.

Join us (virtually) on听March 17, 2023听for the Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, presented by 杏吧原创鈥檚 Department of History.听 This year鈥檚 theme is听History in Conversation: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity.听 Our objective is to promote emerging historical research by graduate students, whilst fostering collaboration and interdisciplinarity among our peers.

History is ever-evolving in scope and breadth. Its medium is no longer confined to written sources, but a collaboration of sources that range from oral histories to digital culture to material culture, and everything in between. History can, and indeed is, continuing to grow from beyond the confines of the academy. For example, the work of has mainstreamed such important, collaborative approaches, bringing history to the public and fostering broader engagement. As an emerging cohort of historians, we feel this is integral work.

With this focus on听History in Conversation, we are looking for MA and PhD submissions from all disciplines that consider the following:

1. Collaborative approaches听(i.e., working with colleagues across disciplines, employing methodologies from other disciplines, bringing history to the public in new and innovative ways)
2. 听Impacts and implications听(i.e., case studies, historiographical or methodological discussions)
3. Graduate students outside of the history department whose research has a historical element听(i.e., GIS mapping of historical data, digital humanities, music and theatre with historical influence, policy topics with historical analysis)

More information: /underhill/call-for-papers/

Follow the IFPH (cc: ), the University of Luxembourg (cc: ) and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (cc: ) for more details has they are announced.

IFPH: https://ifph.hypotheses.org/

History, Memory, Performance was a conference jointly organized by the University of Ottawa’s Department of Theatre and the Centre for Public History in April 2012. It brought together over a hundred scholars, students and practitioners engaged in the disciplines of public history, theatre studies and related fields. This bilingual, interdisciplinary event featured keynotes by Professor Freddie Rokem (University of Tel-Aviv) and Emeritus Professor Jean-Pierre Sarrazac, lunchtime events with artistic director Wajdi Mouawad and playwright Hannah Moscovitch, a roundtable on First Nations Theatre, and over 35 panels, working groups, workshops, and performances. Co-director David Dean spoke about the conference here. Two volumes of essays appeared as a result of the conference: David Dean, Yana Meerzon, and Kathryn Prince (eds), History, Memory, Performance (Palgrave, 2015) and Jo毛l Beddows and Louise Frappier, Histoire et m茅moire au th茅芒tre: perspectives contemporaines (University of Laval, 2016).

Migration / Representation / Stereotypes

Studies in Migration 鈥� 脡tudes sur la migration an听Interdisciplinary Research Group 鈥� Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire by the Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa and 杏吧原创鈥檚 Migration & Diaspora Studies are co-hosting an International Interdisciplinary Conference on April 28-30, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada.

The omnipresence of stereotypes in the age of global migration is increasingly evident both at the level of governing structures and in everyday practices. Stereotypes, as Patrice Pavis tells us, stem from 鈥減reconceived ideas and unverified truisms鈥� (369). In the context of migration, both historically and today, the use of stereotypes to characterize the migrant 鈥� whether it be a figure of suffering or a source of danger 鈥� can influence, polarize, and even radicalize public opinions and discourses. The influence of social media and political narratives, as well as literature and the arts, can be both productive and dangerous when it comes to our evaluation of a new migrant, refugee, asylum seeker, or exile as a neighbour, business partner, colleague, or friend. This is especially true in a world of increasing global conflicts and terrorism, neoliberal markets, and newly emerging nationalist agendas. This international, interdisciplinary, and bilingual conference aims to address the questions of the (ab)use of stereotypes when it comes to the representation of migration and refugees in various public discourses, both historically, conceptually and practically.

Recently awarded a SSHRC connections grant, this international, interdisciplinary, and bilingual conference aims to address the questions of the (ab)use of stereotypes when it comes to the representation of migration and refugees in various public discourses, both historically, conceptually and practically.

The conference runs from April 28-30. There will also be a special听pre-conference event on April 27 hosted by the University of Toronto Press for听Canadian Theatre Review 169: Theatre and Sports. The journal launch will run from 7:00 鈥� 9:30 p.m. in Academic Hall,听Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa; 135 S茅raphin Marion Street, and includes a cash bar, complimentary hors d鈥檕euvres and a performance by playwright Colleen Sutton from her recently published one-woman play RiderGirl.

You can find out more by turning to the the conference鈥檚听 or by contacting David Dean david.dean@carleton.ca or Daniel McNeil dm212@queensu.ca.

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