History Museums and Community Relevance: Explorers Reflection
Megan Jones, student at Macquarie University, responds to and reflects on Margaret Koch’s presentation on history museums and community relevance.
Megan Jones, student at Macquarie University, responds to and reflects on Margaret Koch’s presentation on history museums and community relevance.
How do you teach performing public history when in-person classes are not permitted due to the pandemic? Carleton University History Professor David Dean’s graduate seminar, Narrativity and Performance in Public History has had to be online for at least the first half of the current Winter 2022 semester. For a class that depends on in-person meetings, hands-on workshops, activities, and trips to theatre productions, this was going to be a serious challenge. Thanks to Carleton University’s Students as Partners Program (SaPP), Ms. Andrea Villasmil, a third-year undergraduate student, took on the task of working with David to come up with a solution. In this blog post, Andrea describes her experience, bookended by a short explanation of the course and a report on how it worked in practice by David.
By Hope Shannon @HistorianHope The idea for an International Federation for Public History student and new professional committee came out of the inaugural IFPH conference in Amsterdam in October, 2014. Interested students and new professionals began thinking about committee goals and potential projects while the IFPH steering committee considered the new committee’s role within the IFPH. The IFPH officially established the Student and New Professional Committee in January 2015.