CFP: National Council on Public History’s Annual Meeting

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is inviting proposals for their 2025 Annual Meeting which will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from March 26-29, 2025. The 2025 NCPH Annual Meeting will center around the theme Solidarity. The meeting will seek answers about what does Solidarity mean in the field of public history to consider what scholars collectively value in the field and how they progress together as public history workers. Amplifying voices, building connections, unifying audiences, advocating for and revealing authentic histories, fostering and promoting safe spaces, and mirroring these values internally within the organizations are a few examples of how Solidarity as a theme is realized across the field. Please submit your fully formed session, working group, or workshop proposal online by July 15, 2024. Please visit this link to get more information about submitting proposal.

While submissions on all topics are welcome, in exploring Solidarity, the Joint 2025 Program and Local Arrangements Committee co-chairs particularly encourages to consider a few of the examples below:

• Sessions related to public history labor and public historians as workers, including efforts to improve compensation and working conditions in the field and in our institutions;
• Sessions which model collaboration between public historians and relevant stakeholders, especially community members and grassroots organizers;
• Sessions which demonstrate solidarity between public historians and activist movements or protests;
• Sessions which display international cooperation and collaboration across borders;
• Sessions which explicitly consider shared responsibilities as public historians: to each other, to the communities served, to the pasts, people, and places interpreted, and to the world lived in;
• Sessions which ask to evaluate the past work of public history to consider the shared debts must be paid;
• Sessions which consider public history work as a projet de société—in Québec, a societal project.

Contact information:

Please email program manager Meghan Hillman at meghillm@iu.edu