Digital History and Memory - Update September 25th
News links, articles and recommendations compiled by Steffen Jost
Dear readers,
I compiled another overview of many the new releases, dates, and projects in the field of #DigitalMemory. But first some shameless self promotion. Last week, I had the opportunity to discuss "Memory work, virtual spaces, and games in political education" with Birthe Annkathrijn Pater, Pia Schramm, and Fadl Speck at the Blickwinkeltagung in Erfurt. The recording is available on YouTube (in German):
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Two weeks ago I mentioned the Grimme Online Award. Apart from the winners selected by the jury there is a public voting. If you would like to vote for your favorite digital project, you can still do so till the 3rd of October.
Enjoy reading these new discoveries
If you have nothing planned for tonight and are based in Berlin, you can spend the evening at the Academy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The Arolsen Archives invite you to the workshop "and today? Historical-political education in the digital present". Participants include Nina Kollek, Birthe Pater, Norbert Hinterleitner, Alina Bothe and paintbucket games. ➡️ https://t1p.de/fklwd
Also today: the EHRI Webinar “The Future of the Past: Analyzing Early Holocaust Testimonies with Digital Tools” with Ildikó Barna. ➡️ https://www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-webinar-future-past-analyzing-early-holocaust-testimonies-digital-tools
On October 9th Eva Berendsen (Anne Frank Educational Center) will provide insights into how to do communication on TikTok. This is part of the EVZ Foundation's Communicators' Meeting series. The networking format is aimed at communicators working on Holocaust Education and Memory Culture. ➡️ https://t1p.de/z4mv3
On October 16, the digital event series by #LastSeen starts under the title "Interactive Remembrance of the Shoah: Games and Other Digital Formats", featuring Tabea Widmann, Markus Bassermann, Bastian Satthoff, Aya Zarfati, and Rebecca Schuler, among others. ➡️ https://t1p.de/bi9p7
The memorial site Villa Ten Hompel is organizing the lecture series "Making of: Rethinking Historical Sites" in the winter semester 2024/25 with the Institute for Didactics of History at the University of Münster. I will be speaking on December 5th about "Historical Sites in Digital Space. A Critical Look at Current Debates and Formats". ➡️ https://t1p.de/h5cvf
The new VR-project "Immersive Jewish Frankfurt" aims to make the everyday life of Europe's first Jewish ghetto tangible. The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt has just received 1.3 million euros for this purpose. ➡️ https://t1p.de/ilyht
“Peoples Berlin - Berlin History from Below” is a new layer (German/English) in the berlinHistory app. Iris Wachsmuth has a teaser film. ➡️ Teaser: https://t1p.de/j2jlw More info: https://peoples-berlin.com/
The project “Motion Comics as Memory Work” was completed at the end of 2023, but I only came across it recently. Four motion comics with educational material on the topic of German-German history were created. ➡️ https://t1p.de/99aqk
The volume "Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space" by Eva Pfanzelter, Dirk Rupnow, Éva Kovács, and Marianne Windsperger has just been published (OA). ➡️ https://t1p.de/jlwgv
And lastly: The Landecker Digital Memory Lab has published the CfP for its first "Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo I". It sounds amazing and until December 5th you can submit ideas for this great conference/fair/networking opportunity at the University of Sussex. ➡️ https://t1p.de/t1hl0