The Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, Poland (HI UWr), the Depot History Centre, the National Ossolinski Institute Foundation, the International Federation for Public History, the European Association of History Educators (EuroClio) and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to participate in the ninth Public History Summer School to be held in hybrid format (on-site and on-line), 15-19 June 2026.

If you are interested in how history functions in the public sphere, the summer school will give you an opportunity to broaden your interests and enrich your experience. The event will combine lectures, workshops and debates concerning methodology and specific case studies delivered by specialists in the field, as well as presentations of individual and collaborative projects.

We strongly encourage graduate and postgraduate students, professionals, as well as those without institutional affiliation but conducting interesting public history projects to submit their proposals. They may include (but need not be limited to):

– Public history of things

– Ethical aspects of doing history

– Historical narratives

– History & politics

– History & memory

– E-history

– Digital humanities

– Oral history

– Visual history

– Museums, exhibitions, archives

– Festivals and reenactments

– History of education

– Historical journalism

– Popularisation of history

– History & media

– History-related games

– Project management

The organizers may invite selected participants to propose chapters based on their contributions to be submitted for publication in Routledge’s series Global Perspectives on Public History.

The program will include an opening keynote lecture Australians and the Past – Revisited by Tanya Evans (Macquarie University), a lecture with Q&A Ethnic Identity: Developing a Latina/o Identity by Silvia Pedraza (University of Michigan), workshops on doing public history, including participatory exhibition making, as well as a guided walking tour of the city and a visit to the main exhibition on the post-war history of Wrocław at the Depot History Centre. The event will conclude with a roundtable on pursuing PhD studies in public history.

The summer school is organised within the framework of the 9th International Conference Studying Public History – Methods, Difficulties, Perspectives.