Professor Anna Clark, University of Technology, Sydney.  

Professor Arthur Chapman, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society.  

Katy Wallace, PhD candidate, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. 

Date and Time: Thursday 20th June 2024, 5.00pm-6.30pm BST (GMT+1).  

Face to face and Online –room and zoom link to be confirmed after registration. Please register here. 

Abstract: 

Anna Clark’s Making Australian History is a remarkable book – one that aims to write a history of academic History writing in Australia, whilst also doing justice to other forms of history making outside the academy – a question of particular salience in a context where History has in the past been used to help marginalize Indigenous Australians and their presence in Country and their ways of knowing. The book tests and explores the boundaries and relationships between history as the past, history as an academic discipline for representing the past, and different traditions and modalities of interpreting and making sense of and with the human experience of time. It makes a vital contribution to expanding our thinking about what history can be as well as a fascinating exploration of powerful, moving and fascinating stories about Australian pasts. 

In this seminar, Anna Clark will be in conversation about her work with the IOE History SIG coordinators, Katy Wallace and Arthur Chapman.  

Presenters:

Seminar: Informal historical learning. Ethnographic explorations on children’s doing history in play

Presenter: Professor Christian Mathis, Zurich University of Teacher Education

Date and Time: Wednesday 21st February at 6-7.30pm

Mode: Hybrid – online and face-to-face attendance at the IOE.

Room and Zoom Link: to be confirmed after registration. Please register here

Abstract:

This presentation understands playgrounds with historical accessories as historical-cultural phenomena. Playmobil figures with historical motifs and children’s play with them can also be understood as historical-cultural phenomena. In their play, children – among other stories – create historical narratives. They are doing history in the performative act of playing. In an ethnographic study, children’s free play was observed in children aged around six. In another ethnographic study, the private Playmobil play of almost 5-year-old twins was observed. In both studies, historical narratives performed during play were reconstructed. Both studies suggest that the children’s doing of history could be understood as a mimetic act that – in Ricoeur’s sense – can be grasped through prefiguration, configuration, and refiguration; whereby the prefiguration is influenced by the affordances of the things being played with and a “complicity” between child and thing (Meyer-Drawe), it can arise in the configuration, which can lead to an emplotment and productive imagination of history.

Seminar: Unthinking historical thinking: lessons from the Arctic

Presenter: Dr Silke Reeploeg, Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland).

Date: Tuesday 12th December 2023 at 18:00 – 19:30 GMT

Event Summary:

This seminar will introduce you to issues around Indigenous knowledge in history education, with a focus on the Arctic region. Dr Reeploeg will discuss her latest publication, which suggests a paradigm shift in history education, considering the new UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development framework. She explores the challenges and opportunities of history education in promoting epistemic and cognitive justice in the context of Arctic memory cultures. Can Indigenous scholarship help us restore cultural memory?

Unthinking historical thinking: lessons from the Arctic History Education Research Journal, 20: 1 DOI:https://doi.org/10.14324/HERJ.20.1.04

Presenter:

Dr. Silke Reeploeg is an Associate Professor of History at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland researching intercultural links in cultural and social history, Nordic studies and critical methodologies. Her current research focuses on how coloniality shapes Arctic histories and cultures.

Event Information 

This is an online event taking place on Zoom.

Please register for the event at this link.

We will contact you ahead of the event with a Zoom link.