International Federation for Public History

07/08/2026

The conversation is growing across Latin America... and there's still room for your voice!

We're thrilled by the enthusiastic response to our call for chapters for the Routledge edited volume: Difficult Pasts in Latin American Museums and Heritage Spaces: Conversations on Memory, Perpetrators, and Contested Representation.

So far, we've received proposals from scholars representing:

🇦🇷 Argentina
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇨🇱 Chile
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇵🇪 Peru
🇺🇾 Uruguay
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Together, these proposals promise rich conversations on museums, memory, heritage, perpetrators, contested representation, and the many ways Latin America confronts its difficult pasts.

We would love to hear from even more voices across the region and beyond. If your research engages with museums, memorials, heritage spaces, public history, memory, or difficult pasts in Latin America, we warmly encourage you to submit a proposal.

Proposal deadline: September 1, 2026

Help us build a volume that reflects the diversity of experiences, perspectives, and debates shaping the future of museum and heritage studies in Latin America.

We look forward to reading your proposal!

06/08/2026

Can history heal?
What happens when public historians, museum professionals, artists educators, archivists, community leaders, activists, and more from around the world gather to explore some of the most difficult chapters of our shared past?
From September 7–11, 2026, Lisbon, Portugal will become a meeting place for conversations about public history, memory, justice, heritage, conflict, migration, museums, oral history, and digital storytelling and many more!
The 8th International Conference on Public History: The Public History of Difficult Pasts isn't just a conference. It's an invitation to listen, challenge assumptions, build bridges, and imagine how history can contribute to more democratic futures.
Whether you're presenting, learning, or simply curious, we'd love to see you in Lisbon.
Because difficult pasts deserve meaningful conversations.
Find more information and the program here,

Lisbon, Portugal | September 7-11, 2026 The Public History of Difficult Pasts Public History has long addressed global historical processes such as colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and the genocide of Indigenous peoples, as well as phenomena that emerge in multiple contexts, including arm...

16/07/2026

Complete video of the IFPH Explorers event with Dr. Heba Abd El Salam! Enjoy!

This presentation examines how public history can strengthen connec...

06/07/2026

Check out the amazing work of our IFPH Explorers Interns!

We are delighted to introduce The Founding Pubs of Balmain, the newest digital series developed as part of the IFPH Explorers Internship Program, an initiative that continues to showcase the creativity, scholarly rigor, and public engagement of our student interns. At IFPH Explorers, we view interns...

06/07/2026

How can museums help build stronger communities?

Join IFPH Explorers on July 16 at 10:00 AM (EST) for an inspiring conversation with Dr. Heba Abd El Salam:

From Mallawi to North Carolina: Community Engagement, Museum Education, and Public History Across Cultures.

Discover how museums, storytelling, oral history, and digital humanities can create meaningful connections between people, heritage, and place. Drawing on projects in Egypt and the United States, Dr. Abd El Salam will explore how community-centered public history fosters cultural understanding, belonging, and public participation, from the Mallawi Museum to refugee and immigrant communities in North Carolina.

Whether you're interested in museums, public history, cultural heritage, migration, or community engagement, this is a conversation you won't want to miss!

July 16, 2026
10:00 AM (Eastern Time)
Join us on Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87456612076...
📌 Meeting ID: 874 5661 2076
🔑 Passcode: 945020
We look forward to seeing you there!

01/07/2026

Explore Public History Around the World!
IFPH Explorers is an international space where historians, museum professionals, artists, activists, and communities come together to share ideas, exchange experiences, and spark conversations about the many ways history connects with the public. Through webinars, interviews, digital projects, and global collaborations, Explorers highlights innovative public history initiatives from every corner of the world.
Whether you're a student, educator, researcher, or simply passionate about history, there's a place for you in the conversation.
🔗 Learn more and explore upcoming and past events: https://ifph.hypotheses.org/ifph-explorers
We also hope to see you in Lisbon in September!!

27/06/2026

Our intern Lily Kelly Clark created the series Public History Cooked. If you want to see her videos, follow our Youtube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/-FIHP. Here is her last creation. If you want to be part of the series send an email to [email protected]

10/06/2026

What happens when history is not simply forgotten, but deliberately erased?
Enjoy this conversation with Dr. Myriam Dalal on Guerrilla Public History, a radical, community-led methodology that seeks to reclaim histories silenced by violence, displacement, and exclusion. Drawing inspiration from the work of Paulo Freire and Frantz Fanon, Guerrilla Public History challenges conventional institutional approaches to historical production and instead embraces politically engaged, grassroots practices that reactivate marginalized histories in everyday life.
Dr. Dalal's work spans public history, participatory research, artistic practice, and migration studies. From collaborating with migrant communities in Luxembourg to developing The Virtual House of the Rejected, an affective archive dedicated to those who disappeared in the Mediterranean, her research explores memory, absence, and resistance across the Global South.
This event invites us to rethink who produces history, whose voices are heard, and how historical practice can become a tool for social and political transformation.

This discussion introduces Guerrilla Public History as a radical, c...

28/05/2026

Join us for “What is Guerrilla Public History? Disrupting the Institution to Reclaim Our History,” a provocative conversation with Dr. Myriam Dalal exploring radical, community-led approaches to public history, memory, and resistance.
Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire and Frantz Fanon, Dr. Dalal examines how grassroots practices can reactivate marginalized histories and challenge institutional authority over the past. Her work bridges public history, participatory research, migration, and political violence across communities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. From Luxembourg to Palestine, from migrant archives to histories of disappearance, this discussion invites us to rethink who has the power to tell history — and how communities can reclaim it.
Find the link here, https://tinyurl.com/ym4k3a86

30/04/2026

We are excited to launch Public History Cooked, a new series developed through the IFPH Explorers Internship Program!
This project explores the powerful relationship between food and public history, showing how recipes, culinary traditions, and everyday practices can reveal stories about memory, identity, and culture. By combining hands-on cooking with historical reflection, the series invites us to experience the past in accessible and meaningful ways.
Created by our intern Lily Kelly-Clark, this series highlights the important contributions students make to shaping innovative public history content.
Watch the first episodes here:
https://youtu.be/jtWv0ZQDD_I
https://youtu.be/MWcWHsNXboI

https://ifph.hypotheses.org/7676

We are delighted to announce the official launch of Public History Cooked, a new digital series developed as part of the IFPH Explorers Internship Program—an initiative that continues...