Organized and convened by Dr. Victoria Van Orden Martínez, Lund University, Sweden Hosted by The North European Center for Research on Antisemitism and the Holocaust (NORAH) at Lund University, Sweden.

This is a half-day online workshop. For schedule and Zoom link, contact Victoria Martinez (contact information to the right).

Chair: Dr. Victoria Van Orden Martínez, Researcher in History, Lund University and NORAH

Speakers:
Professor Thomas Cauvin, Professor of Public History, University of Luxembourg
Dr. Laura Aguiar, Lecturer in Cinematic Arts, Ulster University, Northern Ireland
Tomasz Lesniak, Library assistant, Lund University Library, Sweden
Dr. Ming Gao, Research scholar of East Asia studies, Lund University, Sweden

On the workshop:

Archives are where researchers of all types – students, practitioners, academics, and the public gather and mediate knowledge of the past. In turn, this knowledge forms the narratives that shape societies and our increasingly transnational and globalized world. 

The openness and availability of archives and the research that stems from them are thus of vital importance to the creation of balanced and nuanced narratives that promote democracy and equality. This begs questions about how to achieve open archives and accessible research that engage the public through different media, resulting in more inclusive public history engagements. This workshop, hosted by the North European Center for Research on Antisemitism and the Holocaust at Lund University (NORAH), is geared towards academics, practitioners, archivists, students, and others who engage with archives, research, and/or public history or want to reach the public. Participants have the opportunity not only to listen to experts in public history education, open archives, multimedia content creation, and public history writing share their experiences and best practices, but also to interact with them personally for meaningful personal advice and expertise.