The enduring legacies of public history are integral to who we are. The aim of the EU-funded EUROPAST project is to promote research standards in public history at Vilnius University (VU) and enhance staff expertise. Working in collaboration with other renowned European academic institutions, the project will employ best practices to research public history, develop future models, conduct training courses and seminars, and establish a robust network of public history researchers and stakeholders. This will create an interdisciplinary network that will cement VU’s reputation, facilitate future research projects, empower new approaches to public history and extend beyond academia.
Connecting EUROPAST research managers and data and communication specialists for mutual learning and continuous knowledge exchange, as put into practice through online Coffee Talks.
The EUROPAST community is invited to participate in Researchers and Managers Labs, with the aim of promoting research standards, strengthening the quality of research management and benefiting from synergies across these fields.
The Research Managers Network serves as a platform to facilitate collaboration among researchers in the consortium through the dissemination of calls from partner institutions.
All colleagues from the EUROPAST institutions are invited to join the network – find out more here.
Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
Head of the 'Public History and Outreach' Research Area, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Head of the Communism and Society department at the Centre of Contemporary History at Potsdam
Director of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Vice-Chancellor of Linnaeus University
Head of the Department of Political Behaviour and Institutions
Call for Participation.
Turning points of history and controversial anniversaries can unite or divide society. Teachers, curators, activists and politicians frequently invoke such dates as a way of leveraging the past in order to engage and influence constituencies in the present. The aim of this project is to generate a critical survey of how public history – defined as the mobilization of the past to engage the public, ideally meeting methodological and ethical standards – was practiced across Central and Eastern Europe since 1945, through an assessment of how controversial anniversaries have been commemorated.
Early Career Researchers and established scholars in the fields of history, memory and cultural studies, communications, international relations, and related fields – especially but not only from Central and Eastern Europe – are invited to submit paper proposals that address the following questions with relation to the commemoration (after 1945) of a turning point (anytime) in history.
