International Federation for Public History – Fédération Internationale pour l’Histoire Publique
The Federation’s main purpose is to build an international public history community to encourage, promote, and coordinate, contacts, teaching, and research in public history.
Launched before the NCPH annual meeting in Portland Oregon in 2010 as the Task Force for the Internationalisation of Public History, the IFPH was established that same year as an Internal commission of the International Committee for Historical Sciences (CISH, Comité International des Sciences Historiques), and its Steering Committee was elected in January 2012:
Chair, Serge Noiret, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Vice-Chair, Jean-Pierre Morin, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, Canada
Treasurer, Michael Devine, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Independence, Missouri, United States
Secretary, Arnita Jones, Historian-consultant, Arlington, Virginia, United States
Delegate, Anna Adamek, Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Delegate, Andreas Etges, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
To learn more about the IFPH, consult the IFPH-FIHP’s own website at publichistoryint.org
The first elected Steering committee meeting was held in Luxembourg on the 22nd of March 2012, and the first federation general meeting was held in Milwaukee the 20th of April 2012. The next meeting will be in Ottawa in April 2013 during the NCPH 2013 Annual Meeting.
| IFPH Bylaws - English |
| FIHP Statuts - Français |
To learn more about the IFPH-FIHP and to be added to its global membership mailing list, please contact Serge Noiret at serge.noiret [at] eui.eu
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The purpose of the Federation is to encourage, promote, and coordinate, at an international level, teaching and research in public history. The purpose of the Federation is to:
- create an international network of public history programs and scholars
-facilitate the international exchange of information on teaching and research in public history
-share recommended professional and academic best practices, including standards for evaluating public history scholarship
-foster participation of public historians and their organizations in international congresses and other meetings of scholars in the field
-encourage the formation of national committees of historians working in the field of public history