http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4879 2026-07-11T04:04:50Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9568 The Notebook, the Closet, and the Film: Iranians Processing Trauma Through Public History, Case Study: The 1988 Executions Asgari, Rahil Iranians who lost loved ones during the revolutionary period (1979–89) have struggled with trauma for more than 40 years. The pain of loss and the knowledge of the torture that happened in the prisons have haunted Iranians who have unintentionally tried to process their trauma through public history. In this article I explore some of these cases by drawing upon interviews I conducted with family members, using them to provide a theoretical framework that demonstrates how generational experience contributed to the ways families, largely unaware of this historical field, utilize public history for healing purposes. Oppression has forced Iranians to engage with audiences as limited as one’s family or as broad as on a global scale. As some Iranians have moved into diaspora, and with the transition of developed trauma into an inherited form, the fear of oppression has decreased generationally, increasing the levels of engagement with the public. This has encouraged Iranians living inside the country to join in such efforts on a larger scale. Whether public, semi-public, or less-than-public, all cases demonstrate how the process of healing has evolved into a form of resistance that strives for engagement while defying the forces that seek to silence them. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9567 From Hashtag to History: Social Media, Performance, and Memory in Digital Archives Kole de Peralta, Kathleen The Archivo Covid-19 Perú is a rapid-response public history project at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru (San Marcos Archive) that collected Indigenous Amazonian pandemic experiences. In the archive, social media posts, oral histories, and hashtags such as #SOSAmazonia and #SOSPueblosTransfronterizos functioned as performative acts of witnessing that confronted state neglect and mobilized collective care. Indigenous actors leveraged online platforms to claim public visibility, pressure authorities, and reframe the pandemic as part of a larger history of state neglect. Simultaneously, archival preservation recreates power dynamics. By selecting, mediating, and recontextualizing ephemeral posts, the archive transforms digital objects into historical artifacts, restaging them for new audiences and interpretative frames. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9561 La comunità nelle pratiche e nei progetti di Public History Noiret, Serge This essay explores the concept of «communities» as objects of study and as actors in Italian and international Public History practices. Before describing three cases of community-sourcing in communities located in Italy, the United States and Belgium, we discuss how the «community» has been studied in the recent history of Italian Public History and its «glocal» dimension based on the Book of Abstracts of the Associazione Italiana di Public History annual conferences from 2017 to 2025. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9560 Public History and Heritage among Communities: Participation and Knowledge Sharing Noiret, Serge My contribution aims to briefly describe how Public History (from now on PH), with its historical path, methods, and practices, can enrich a transdisciplinary history and management of cultural heritage. How PH could meet the needs and enhance some tasks of heritage professionals will be explained through some examples of participatory practices that involve local communities in the context of the Faro Convention of the Council of Europe (2005) and its implications for participatory practices in historical-archaeological heritage, emphasized the importance of direct involvement of local communities. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z