The theme of the public utility of history, the transformation of professions, the challenges that separate universalism and globalisation, the models of teaching and the didactic specificity of the discipline, the ethic and civic principles that a critical teaching of history can transmit, its crisis and its potential for the renewal and reinforcement of knowledge, also in light of its relationship with memory. A broad reflection that asks questions about a wide range of issues such as the potential of universalism, identities and belonging.