teaching public history
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TeachingPublicHistory Enrica Salvatori - Laboratorio di Cultura Digitale - Pisa
Public History and the Media - EUI - 11/2/2015
Digital History at Infouma
• Since 2010 course of Digital History at the Master Degree course in Digital Humanities (Informatica Umanistica form here IU) in Pisa
• At the beginning Students not expert or educated in History (only one course during Bachelor)
• Students more expert in digital "stuff" (tools, software, scripts...) but now also in Humanities
• Digital History ≠ Public History but
PH NEED DH A Digital Public History Course
• 50% Theory (home made texts and slides)
• 50% Lab building the conceptual structure of the App
• EXTRA but NOT OPTIONAL free course on App organised by IU Degree Course
First year: building an App (about History)
Second year: Epigraphies
• 50% theory
• aims:
• telling the “story” of an epigraphy (from ancient to contemporary era) using TEXTS, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO
• make citizenship aware of their history by “reading again” this “phantoms” of the town
• 50% Lab in digital video production (external aid)
• municipality’s collaboration requested but not achieved
• collaboration with schools: not yet activated but still possible
Third and Fourth year: e-book History of Pisa
• 50% theory
• aims:
• thinking at the ebook as a real multimedia device;
• reasoning about the best way to explain and tell history to people
• 50% Lab in writing, recording and ebook production (with external aid)
next year: building a revival
• Revival a witches’ trial during XVII century in a rural village in Val di Vara (La Spezia)
• looking at primary sources, building the characters, recording voices, thinking how to build an event into and out of the web
• interacting with local people by recording interview
• reasoning about logistic and economic issues
• municipality’s interest and help achieved
• HOW to do it ? I really don’t know yet maybe with magic!
What I’d like but I fear
• Personal experience in a FB group dedicated to my town’s XX century history
• collecting and organising experience and data from and with this group OR
• promoting a collection of local fascist buildings, epigraphies, pictures, mosaics and statues
• conducting (?) the discussion (argument? fight?)
A Balance about teaching..
• I’m not able to be a FULL digital public historian (nobody is) because
• a Digital Public History Course needs of a technical external aid (if you don’t want to deal with the same subjects/projects)
• it cannot be focused on a specific period of time (it could be but you have to sharing content with people nowadays and then the diachronic point of view is compulsory)
• it needs both of theory and practice: you HAVE work on projects as in a Renaissance workshop
• then a Teacher is not enough and one Course neither!
A Balance about Public..
• Given that IMHO Public History means participation of the people to the interpretation of history guided by one historian (at least):
• it’s a lot easier sharing historical contents than building a real public history project
• you need the municipality’s/associations’/ parties’ or local organizations’ help: this is DIFFICULT and NEEDS an EXTRA and HEAVVY WORK (not payed in any meaning)
• if you are dealing with risky topics you need also the academic acceptance and sustain.. (no comment)
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