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.��

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

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

Submit your panel proposal��.

Submit your paper proposal��.

Submit your Working Group proposal��.

All submissions are due by Nov 30, 2025.

For more information please follow the IFPH at:

Applications due: February 21, 2023

Fields of specialization: Indigenous Museology and Public History

Academic Units: Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture / Department of History

Category of Appointment: Preliminary (Tenure-Track)

Rank/Position Title: Assistant Professor

Start Date: July 1, 2023

The Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) and the Department of History invite applications from qualified Indigenous candidates for a preliminary (tenure-track) cross- appointment at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2023, specializing in Indigenous practices in museology, broadly defined.

To see the full position posting, please visit �Ӱ�ԭ�� University’s����������/deputyprovost/jobs/academics/

The ideal candidate will demonstrate an engagement with Indigenous cultures, histories, or art-making practices, and how these have been represented or performed in institutional and/or non-institutional spaces and sites. Relevant areas of expertise include History, Art History, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Museum Studies, Heritage Studies, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, or a related discipline. The geographical focus of specialization is Turtle Island, the lands now called Canada, the United States, and Mexico. This is an Indigenous-specific position. First Nations, Métis, and Inuit scholars are particularly welcome, but Indigenous scholars globally are eligible to apply.

This joint position will support ISCLAC’s Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies and the Department of History’s MA in Public History and its Public History concentrations at the B.A. and Ph.D. level. The position includes undergraduate and graduate teaching, graduate supervision, involvement in the running of graduate programs, and active participation in the collegial governance of their academic units, proportional to a 50/50 joint appointment. The successful candidate will be expected to lead a program of independent research, which may include curatorial practice, and engage with partnering cultural institutions and communities. The successful candidate will contribute to ongoing efforts and initiatives towards Indigenizing and decolonization.

�Ӱ�ԭ�� University is strongly committed to fostering diversity within its community as a source of excellence, cultural enrichment, and social strength. In addition to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, we welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our University including, but not limited to: women; visible minorities; persons with disabilities; and persons of any sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression. In accordance with the University’s Employment Equity Program and pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code Section 14, this selection will be limited to Indigenous peoples. Candidates from Indigenous communities and the groups noted above are encouraged to self-identify.

�Ӱ�ԭ�� the Candidate

The successful candidate will hold or be nearing completion of a PhD in a field of specialization relevant to the position, as described above. They will have a record of academic publications, and/or curatorial practice, or demonstrate potential for future research output.

Candidates are expected to show demonstrated potential for outstanding teaching. They should provide evidence of their commitment to pedagogical innovation, which might include, for example, land-based, community-engaged, and/or experiential learning.

The successful candidate must demonstrate research and teaching interests in and engagement with Indigenous knowledges and perspectives, with evidence of community involvement, including lived experience or collaborative partnerships with First Nations, Inuit, Métis, or other Indigenous communities and organizations in Turtle Island.

Ideal candidates will have experience collaborating with cultural institutions, teaching a diverse student body, developing Indigenized curricula, and mentoring Indigenous students.

�Ӱ�ԭ�� the Academic Units:

The Department of History offers a four-year undergraduate Honours degree, a MA in History, a MA in Public History, and a PhD in History. For more information, see: www.carleton.ca/history/

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) is a graduate-only academic unit, offering an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cultural Mediations and a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies. For more information, see:��.

Both academic units are informed by and committed to the recommendations of��������à��à�����ɾ���, �Ӱ�ԭ��

University’s Indigenous strategy.

Application instructions:

As part of their letter of application, the applicant should include:
A clear statement indicating their relationship to the Indigenous community that claims them

• A statement indicating if they are currently legally eligible to work in Canada
• A statement that reflects their perspectives on and/or experience dealing with issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in teaching, service, or scholarly activities

The letter of application and a curriculum vitae should be emailed as an attachment in a combined, single PDF file to department administrator Darlene Moss (darlene.moss@carleton.ca).

Applicants should also arrange for three individuals, including both academic and Indigenous community connections, to send letters of recommendation directly to department administrator Darlene Moss (darlene.moss@carleton.ca).

*All materials should be received by February 21, 2023*

No other materials will be accepted, but teaching or research examples may be requested at a later stage. Questions about the position should be directed to the committee chair, Dr. James Opp (james.opp@carleton.ca).

�Ӱ�ԭ�� �Ӱ�ԭ�� University

Located in Ottawa, �Ӱ�ԭ�� is an innovative teaching and research institution with a tradition of leading change. Internationally recognized academics, staff, and researchers engage more than 31,000 students in over 100 programs of study. Learn more about��our university and the city of Ottawa.

Accessibility is a university strategic priority and applicants selected for an interview who require accommodations are invited to contact the committee chair as soon as possible to ensure that appropriate arrangements may be made.

�Ӱ�ԭ�� University acknowledges and respects the Algonquin Anishinaabe people, traditional custodians of the land on which the �Ӱ�ԭ�� University campus is situated.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. All positions are subject to budgetary approval.

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“Enghelab Shod”: Remembering the 1979 Iranian Revolution – An Oral History Archive

Archive launch February 2, 2023

“Enghelab Shod” [Farsi for “The Revolution Happened”] is a virtual oral history archive on memories of the 1979 Iranian revolution. As a significant moment in the history of contemporary Iran, a close and intimate view of the 1979 revolution reveals much about the hopes, the fears and the aspirations of Iranian people in their more than a century-long and ongoing struggle for freedom, independence and equality. Join us February 2, 2023 for an evening of engaging with some memories from 1979 as we strive to better understand what it means to live through a revolution.

Event Details – in-person: No registration required to attend in person; please join us Thursday, February 2nd at 5:30 p.m. EST in Dunton Tower Room 2017 – �Ӱ�ԭ�� University (Ottawa, Canada)

Event Details – virtual: Registration required (below) to join us virtually for the launch

Click HERE to view and download a poster promoting the event

Register to Attend Event Virtually:

New CFP ‘

Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2023

Please send all correspondence, including questions and proposals, to��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, “Public History in the Digital Age.” 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,��information technology professionals, enterprise architects, and scholars from other disciplines.��We��encourage��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��

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

Join us (virtually) on��March 17, 2023��for the Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, presented by �Ӱ�ԭ��’s Department of History.�� This year’s theme is��History in Conversation: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity.�� 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��History in Conversation, we are looking for MA and PhD submissions from all disciplines that consider the following:

1. Collaborative approaches��(i.e., working with colleagues across disciplines, employing methodologies from other disciplines, bringing history to the public in new and innovative ways)
2. ��Impacts and implications��(i.e., case studies, historiographical or methodological discussions)
3. Graduate students outside of the history department whose research has a historical element��(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/

In January, 2022, �Ӱ�ԭ�� Public History alumni Allison Margot Smith was interviewed about her work as a historical documentary filmmaker. She shares the ways in which she bridged the gap between practicing public history in her academic career to applying the skills that she learned at �Ӱ�ԭ�� into her post-graduate work.

Academic Background

Allison Margot Smith is a historian and historical documentary filmmaker who graduated from �Ӱ�ԭ�� University’s BA History program. As a part of her coursework, she completed the fourth-year course on how to make a historical documentary film.

She then did her MA in Public History at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, which included an internship at Parks Canada. Her research, as a student, was on Black history in Canada and her final MA research project was a documentary film and research paper about 19th-century Black American abolitionist, Mary Ann Shadd, and her archive of letters that were almost lost in Canada. The film is entitled “”

Moving Beyond the Academy

After graduating, Allison worked at Parks Canada, where she made another documentary film. Separately, she worked as a member of a team on a film about the Doukhobors of Saskatchewan, and another film about the immigrant experience in Canada.

In 2021 she obtained funding from the Township of Rideau Lakes to make a series of historical documentary films about the township. The first film was “.”
Her second film for the township was just completed this past December, and is entitled “.” Canadian military historian, Tim Cook, praised her work on the Fettercairn story:

“This is a very fine historical product. It uses new archival photographs and documents to tell a little-known story from the Great War. Highly recommended for historians and educators.”

She recently released her third film in the series, “,” about the election riots in the township in the three years before the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. to view all three films in the series.

The Interview

Watch Allison’s interview with former CCPH Research Assistant, Danielle Mahon, as she discusses the creative decisions and historical research practices she incorporates into her films.