Call for articles for the dossier “Collective Voices. Public History Practices in Latin America and the Caribbean”
July 15 All day
July 15 | Open Call
El Colombian Yearbook of Social and Cultural History (ACHSC) invites the academic community to submit articles and reviews for the Volume 54, Number 2, which will include the thematic dossier “Collective Voices: Practices of Public History in Latin America and the Caribbean”, along with a free-topic section.
Public history encompasses the diverse ways of constructing, interpreting, and disseminating the past beyond strictly academic spaces. In Latin America and the Caribbean, this field has been consolidated through collaborative projects, community initiatives, and numerous experiences aimed at democratizing historical knowledge and broadening history's audiences.
The dossier seeks to gather research and experiences produced from and about the region that allow for reflection on the local particularities of public history practices, as well as on the contemporary challenges of narrating the past from critical, inclusive, and socially engaged perspectives. Submissions will be accepted that address, among other topics, memory and social justice, the construction of collective identities, digital humanities, artistic interventions, community museology, and innovative forms of mediating the past.
Likewise, the call seeks to highlight experiences that challenge homogenizing official, colonial, imperial or national narratives, and that make visible historical processes that restore protagonism to traditionally marginalized communities, recognizing their memories, knowledge and forms of self-representation.
The dossier features guest editing by María Elena Bedoya (historian and independent curator), Jimena Perry (Iona University, United States) and Sebastian Vargas Alvarez (University of Rosario, Colombia).
📅 Deadline for submitting articles and reviews: July 15 2026.
🌎 Receiving languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English.
📄 Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's OJS platform and comply with the editorial guidelines established by the ACHSC.
