Digital History and Memory - Update August 6th
News links, articles and recommendations compiled by Steffen Jost
This is the second edition of the English version of my bi-weekly update on all things digital (Holocaust) memory on LinkedIn. Feel free to connect with me over there. In the meantime I hope to give you enough interesting things to read, watch and experience with these new discoveries.
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This is also my last overview of all things #DigitalHistoryandMemory before the summer break. The next post will appear in early September. Until then, I wish you a good time and have fun reading, watching, testing, and listening.
Enjoy reading these new discoveries
Deutschlandfunk Streitkultur discusses digital memory culture and the last contemporary witnesses. With Antje Allroggen, Deborah Schnabel, and Bernhard Dotzler. ➡️ https://t1p.de/xguhk
Alina Bothe from #LastSeen speaks on Deutschlandfunk about the possibilities of digital projects on Nazi history. ➡️ https://t1p.de/fg99e
Episode 6 of the German Federal Cultural Foundation's podcast Gamechanger is titled "Die Erinnerungskultur". Speakers include Mirjam Wenzel (Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main), Bettina Loppe, Swantje Bahnsen, Katja Praschke (all three from SPUR.lab), and Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (Hebrew University in Jerusalem) ➡️ https://t1p.de/0x85k
The Let's Remember! project by the Foundation for Digital Game Culture was at the Hadamar Memorial Site in July and conducted a workshop with students. There's a nice video that gives you great impression on how this worked out: ➡️ https://t1p.de/zi0v9
The bi-monthly journal “Gedenkstättenrundbrief” will be published bilingually in German/English in the future and comes with a new layout. The new issue includes a look back on 30 years of work by the USC Shoah Foundation. ➡️ https://t1p.de/rfvzw
“Baustellen der Erinnerungskultur” is a new participatory project of the House of Austrian History. Users are encouraged to share their opinions on existing or missing monuments and other memorial signs! ➡️ https://t1p.de/nrbmg
The gaming industry is in an economic crisis, and indie studios like Paintbucket, which tackle thematically difficult topics, are feeling it too, writes Nora Beyer on Superlevel. ➡️ https://t1p.de/ifp0s
Tobias Ebbrecht Hartmann has investigated how antisemitic content spread on TikTok after October 7. ➡️ https://t1p.de/3uomw
On the Landecker Digital Memory Lab blog, Austin Xie writes about his two-month project as a Research Associate at Sussex University: "design of a Holocaust game that offers solutions to those ethical issues, pushing into unexplored territory for the field." ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d9NtE3xW
The University of Luxembourg has a new Master's program in "Digital and Public History" ➡️ https://t1p.de/qr2b1
In November 2025, the "Lessons & Legacies of the Holocaust. Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference" will take place in Worcester, MA. The CfP is open until 12/1/24 ➡️ https://t1p.de/60lsx
The Landecker Digital Memory Lab in Sussex is looking for a Research Fellow. If you want to work with Victoria Grace Walden and Kate Marrison, look here. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e7gQu6Zi
And lastly I was at the GRASSI - Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig two weeks ago and discovered - besides the highly recommended exhibition - the next level of digital tours. ELIPS is a project were you can visit the exhibitions with the help of a telepresence robot. ➡️ https://t1p.de/zq6f6
