EIHS Lecture: "From California to Italy: The Rise of an International Public History"

Public history has been receiving increasing attention in academic circles. Since Robert Kelley coined the terms in the early 1970s at the University of California at Santa Barbara, public history programs have been created all over the United States. Its success now goes well beyond North America as proved by the existence of an international federation, international conferences, international projects, and the newly created Italian Federation for Public History. In his talk, Professor Cauvin will question the successes and the limits of an international public history, the transformation of the original model, and the future of public history training in universities.

Thomas Cauvin is an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Born in France, he received his PhD at the European University Institute (Italy) and has taught in France, Ireland, Italy, and the United States. His research focuses on memory and museums, Irish history, and Louisiana's French-speaking heritage. Cauvin is a board member of the International Federation for Public History and has written the first single-authored textbook on public history: Public History: A Textbook of Practice.

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

This event is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.