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Listening in Latin America: Digital Holocaust Memory and Education in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador

Participants at this year's MSA conference in Lima, Peru.

by Dr Kate MarrisonResearch Fellow, Landecker Digital Memory Lab, University of Sussex Research fellow Dr Kate Marrison recently returned fromContinue reading “Listening in Latin America: Digital Holocaust Memory and Education in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador”

Centralising the Human in Digital Humanities Methods

Composite image of barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp with drawn image of baracks and digital path indicated as viewed wthrough AR app.

It has always been a challenge for researchers to capture ‘collective memory’. As Holocaust memory becomes more digital, this aim becomes even harder. Here, our Lab Director, Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, introduces the approach we’ve adopted in designing a methodology to record content for our groundbreaking ‘living database-archive’.

Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 1

Sussex meeting house - a circular building designed like the iris, surrounded by trees.

The Landecker Digital Memory Lab is building up its brand-new programme of work ahead of its official launch this autumn. In this week’s blog, we offer the first in a series of behind-the-scenes glimpses into what we’ve been up to so far.

Holocaust Education and Social Media: What Young People Really Think

Social media word cloud from HET Ambassadors Conference 2024 workshop

by Dr Kate MarrisonResearch Fellow, Landecker Digital Memory Lab, University of Sussex Kate reports from a recent event which broughtContinue reading “Holocaust Education and Social Media: What Young People Really Think “

Beyond the Single Story: How Computer Games can Transform Holocaust Education

Portrait of Austin Xie, International Junior Research Associate

by Austin XieInternational Junior Research Associate, The University of Chicago Austin Xie is spending two months with us here atContinue reading “Beyond the Single Story: How Computer Games can Transform Holocaust Education”

Shaping the Future Use of VR, AR and Computer Games in Holocaust Memory

Cover images for recommendation guidelines on virtualising Holocaust memoryscapes and using computer games and play in Holocaust mrmory and education.

by Dr Victoria Grace Walden As more Holocaust institutions feel emboldened to incorporate digital media into their practices, it isContinue reading “Shaping the Future Use of VR, AR and Computer Games in Holocaust Memory”

2022 – A Year in Review

The Digital Holocaust Memory blog may have been quiet in 2022, but we have continued developing research involving participants inContinue reading “2022 – A Year in Review”

Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds?

In this month’s post, Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and Tom Divon, Hebrew University, Jerusalem explore multimodal education and commemoration of theContinue reading “Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds? “

2021 – A Year in Review

2021 continued to be a challenging year balancing the demands of administrative and teaching duties during the pandemic with researchContinue reading “2021 – A Year in Review”