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By Alex Sessa In 2025, the Landecker Digital Memory Lab will launch the world’s first ‘living database-archive’: a perpetual, searchable resource of the world’s digital Holocaust education and commemoration initiatives. As we embark on this monumental project, read about the linguistic and ethical challenges this task brings from the view of our historian-indexer. We liveContinue reading “Indexing the World’s Digital Holocaust Projects: the Historian’s View”

By Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden At a conference in Bucharest last week, our Lab Director Prof Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden presented our position on the extent to which we should be engaging with AI for the sake of Holocaust education. I was invited by the US State Department to contribute to a panel called ‘Holocaust DenialContinue reading “AI, Holocaust Distortion and Education”

By Dr Kate Marrison In this long-form series, we offer a deep dive introduction to digital projects at a Holocaust organisation. Our spotlight institutions will feature in our upcoming living database-archive. The journey to the Žanis Lipke Memorial took us on-foot over the Vanšu Bridge, which crosses the Daugava River, in Riga. A quick online searchContinue reading “Spotlight on Žanis Lipke Memorial”

By Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden Through artificial intelligence, machine learning, crowdsourcing, digitisation, VR, AR and computer games, we take you on a tour of some of the world’s most prolific digital Holocaust memory initiatives by way of the theory of the ‘three stages’ of development. To argue that there are three phases of digital HolocaustContinue reading “Three Phases of Digital Holocaust Memory Development”

By Dr Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden There is a tension between digital innovation and presenting difficult, sensitive and traumatic histories and memories. Here we report on the impact of the workshop we held in Tartu, Estonia, encouraging museum practitioners to consider how to navigate this tension. We were grateful to be invited to contribute to theContinue reading “‘Momentum’ 2024: Advancing Digital Innovation in Memory”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”