The Leibniz Center for Contemporary History is an official partner of Europast.
The conference The Past and Future of Public History invites participants to consider the establishment of institutes of "contemporary history" after the Second World War, "national memory" after the Cold War and "European Remembrance" after the eastward expansion of the EU as three waves of public history activism, and to consider what the next wave might entail.
Approaches to public history have varied considerably over time and across space, but they are joined by the key concerns of communicating the past while encouraging the participation and engagement of various constituencies.
The conference will take place on 9–10 October 2025. It will be held at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University.
We invite you to submit proposals for both individual papers and panels. Please submit your abstract (up to 250 words) along with a short bio (up to 250 words) by completing this survey by 31 March 2025: Selected presenters will be notified on 19 May 2025.
Click here for the Call for Papers (pdf)
We strongly encourage on-site participation, but online participation will be possible in individual cases. In the survey, please indicate your preferred mode of participation. The conference language is English. For further information, please contact us at info [at] europast [dot] vu [dot] it (info[at]europast[dot]vu[dot]it)
Click here to see the Europast website.