Network “Public History: Theory and Methodology of a New Sub-Discipline of History”

作为德国科学界的一个新的分支学科，该网络第一次提供了关于公共历史的理论和方法基础的系统交流。在这种方法下，我们遇到了一个重大的空白，因为公共历史大多被理解为“应用历史”，因此被视为(主要)非毕业生的历史的行为学方法。通过将来自全国各地的学术公共史学家聚集在一起，我们的目标是建立一个系统的专业话语，并鼓励和专业化关于未来公共史学家学术教育的讨论。在总共六个研讨会中，我们专注于指导术语、理论和方法，特别是对被视为历史学的一个分支学科的公共历史的实证研究，在将其对象和制度化视为学术教育时，必须理解和讨论跨学科和以应用为导向的公共历史。因此，该网络将历史学家、历史教育学和史前专家、艺术史和考古学专家以及媒体科学联系在一起。作为我们工作的结果，我们的目标是开发一本对公共历史的理论和方法进行系统化和反思的手册，并将作为该领域的学生和公共历史学家的基础工作。

For the first time, the network provides a systematic communication about the theoretical and methodological foundation of public history as a new sub-discipline within the German scientific community. With that approach we meet a significant blank space because public history was mostly understood as “applied history” and was therefore regarded as a praxeological approach to history of (mostly) non-graduates. In bringing together academic public historians from all over the nation we aim to establish a systematic professional discourse and stimulate and professionalize discussions about the academic education of future public historians.In altogether six workshops we focus on guiding terms, theories and methods and particularly on empirical research of a public history understood as a sub-discipline of science of history that – in regarding its objects and institutionalization as academic education – has to be understood and discussed trans-disciplinary and application-oriented. Therefore the network connects historians, experts of history didactics and prehistory, art history and archaeology as well as media sciences. As a result of our work we aim to develop a handbook that systemizes and reflects on theories and methods of public history and will be a ground work for students and public historians in the field alike.