Public history is a space where ordinary Afghans are able to push back on official narratives and result in a wider and more varied range of narratives that more accurately reflect Afghanistan’s multicultural history. #ifph2024
The Taliban has worked to control the physical representation of memory through tangible heritage. Resistance has also led to the creation of digital spaces to commemorate the past and protect grassroots narratives. #ifph2024
Ebtikar describes visiting schools in Afghanistan in 2019, and seeing posters made by students on the wall clearly illustrating historical events that fell outside of the Islamic Republic’s official narratives, making schools a site of resistance through history #ifph2024
(I’m really simplifying a sophisticated and nuanced analysis—we had some technical difficulties and so the speaker is really speeding up. This is work that’s well worth keeping an eye on!) #ifph2024
Nation-building efforts led by the US and NATO pushed narratives of unity by denigrating and eliminating recent conflicts and violence, like the Soviet-Afghan War. These sanitized narratives created dissonance between people’s lived experiences and the national story. #ifph2024
Since the Taliban’s takeover, they have actively sought to eliminate public sites of historical and cultural memory. The Taliban used this process to rewrite history of Afghanistan, and as a process of ethnic cleansing to reshape the narrative in alignment with Taliban values #ifph2024
Second presenter is Munazza Ebtikar, “Memory politics and memoricide in post-2021 Afghanistan” #ifph2024
And stops short of the restorative language that victims’ groups often call for, and therefore these apologies do not really represent transformative change, even when they are billed as such. #ifph2024
She argues that these apologies often simply reiterate the status quo of historical narratives, rather than disrupting those narratives to foreground the actual experiences of victims and the profound culpability of the gov’t and its agents. Language used is often pretty but vague #ifph2024
…without admitting to war crimes or other forms of violence that might have legal repercussions or jeopardize the view of Dutch military veterans who do not want to see themselves as perpetrators of war crimes (since war criminals are Nazis, etc) #ifph2024
de Vries discusses the tensions between the Dutch gov’t’s willingness to express remorse and concerns related to constituencies within the Netherlands. In the case of apologizing for colonial violence in Indonesia, she points out that the gov’t language is coded to acknowledge suffering… #ifph2024
Final session at #ifph2024! I haven’t been great about posting lol, but here we go. This panel is “Politics and public history: challenge and conflict.” First presenter is Renske de Vries, on public apologies from the Dutch government.
Slide from the presentation of Irmgard, showing a foto from the buildings, mixed with photographs from the 1940s and 1970s, showing different stages of use.
Finally, Irmgard Zündorf from the #ZZF introduces an online exhibition project on the history of the Bogensee- Buildings (from NS and GDR). So many layers of history to be de-constructed and the question: what is the best way to introduce this history to as many people possible? #ifph2024
Slide with 6 pictures introducing the range of the exhibition, in the middle the online link
And now Christine Szkiet introduces the Danioth Digital Experiment: take a look at Danioth-digital.ch #ifph2024
Screen, showing the website entry for the online Exhibition Minett Stories.
#ifph2024: Panel 18: Doing #online #exhibitions: Stefan Krebs introduces the #MinettStories, created in 2019/2021, you can still visit it online!
And the other two:
• Transformation: how the digital creates new realities
• From the shelf to the web, exploring historical newspapers in the digital age.
#ifph2024 Sofia encourages teachers in public history to use this OEC.
2/2 Using #Wikipedia as an example of a self-regulated community with outreach and participatory characteristics
- Applying computational tools and techniques to Wikipedia data
- Studying history-making and public perceptions of the past on Wikipedia #ResearchPublicHistory
#ifph2024
#Ifph2024: The lesson can be used in multiple ways: 1/2
- Experimenting with digital source criticism
Applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies to Wikipedia Participating in co-writing history initiatives of Wikipedia and collaborate with non-academic history enthusiasts
2/2 and Investigate how #Wikipedia perceives History as a subject, Learn about the different historical sources that Wikipedia editors can use and finally Discuss how #history-making on Wikipedia differs from academic history-making #ifph2024
#ifph2024 Good morning everyone, we are starting day 3 of our international conference on #publichistory. I had to choose between 4 panels and now joining panel 14 on #teaching #digitalpublichistory tools to the public. Mattia Poggi starts: how to use #wikis to engage in #citizenscience
And if you're at #IFPH2024, you can go check it out. It might be my new favourite library
In the questions section, a prominent theme emerges: working class people hate Margaret Thatcher lol [RIP to Cathy Rutherford] #ifph2024 www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2024/08/05/s...
These narrative are more layered and complex, but also more connected to the experiences of local communities rather the flat, repetitive stories of the Titanic that supposedly appeal to tourists #ifph2024
Women’s narratives focused more closely on the use of the private baths rather than the pool portion of the Templemore Baths. Women described using the baths with a friend, even when they had access to a bath at home (not all did). #ifph2024
