by Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden In this new long-form series, we’ll be offering a introduction to digital projects at a single Holocaust organisation each month. Each of our ‘spotlight’ institutions will feature in our upcoming living database-archive. In perhaps the most unusual way to return from maternity leave, my first day back involved a 24-hour journeyContinue reading “Spotlight on Melbourne Holocaust Museum”
Monthly Archives: September 2024
Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 2: Defining Our Values
By Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden In Part 2 of our ‘Building a Lab’ series, our director Victoria explains how we’re establishing ourselves as a research team, moving beyond our objectives and outcomes to focus on the values that inform who we are, how we work, and how we’ll go about achieving them. It is not veryContinue reading “Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 2: Defining Our Values”
Beyond the Single Story, Part 2
by Austin XieInternational Junior Research Associate, The University of Chicago Austin Xie has spent two months at the Landecker Digital Memory Lab on the University of Sussex’s International Junior Research Associates (IJRA) programme. He tells us about what he’s learnt and elaborates on the design of his own Holocaust-themed game, along with the ethical challengesContinue reading “Beyond the Single Story, Part 2”
AI and the Future of Holocaust Memory
In November, Mykola Makhortykh and Maryna Sydorova from the University of Bern will join the Landecker Digital Memory Lab as visiting researchers. In this interview, our Director, Dr Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden discusses a core focus of their research with them: AI and Holocaust memory. Dr Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden: We’re really looking forward to hosting youContinue reading “AI and the Future of Holocaust Memory”
Addressing Our Research Recommendations: Funding Bids and Policy Guidelines
by Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden Lab director Dr Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden details how we came to run a workshop together with the United Nations and the Holocaust Outreach Programme earlier this summer. The event provided a forum for world-leading Holocaust commemoration organisations, international funders, and UK Parliament to explore the impact they could have on theContinue reading “Addressing Our Research Recommendations: Funding Bids and Policy Guidelines”