The enduring legacies of public history are integral to who we are. The aim of the EU-funded EUROPAST project is to promote research standards in public history at Vilnius University (VU) and enhance staff expertise. Working in collaboration with other renowned European academic institutions, the project will employ best practices to research public history, develop future models, conduct training courses and seminars, and establish a robust network of public history researchers and stakeholders. This will create an interdisciplinary network that will cement VU’s reputation, facilitate future research projects, empower new approaches to public history and extend beyond academia.
Connecting EUROPAST research managers and data and communication specialists for mutual learning and continuous knowledge exchange, as put into practice through online Coffee Talks.
The EUROPAST community is invited to participate in Researchers and Managers Labs, with the aim of promoting research standards, strengthening the quality of research management and benefiting from synergies across these fields.
The Research Managers Network serves as a platform to facilitate collaboration among researchers in the consortium through the dissemination of calls from partner institutions.
All colleagues from the EUROPAST institutions are invited to join the network – find out more here.
Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
Head of the 'Public History and Outreach' Research Area, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Head of the Communism and Society department at the Centre of Contemporary History at Potsdam
Director of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Vice-Chancellor of Linnaeus University
Head of the Department of Political Behaviour and Institutions
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, which will take place on the 9th-10th of October 2025, will be held at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University.
