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The Digital Holocaust Memory Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

More than a decade ago, James E. Young acknowledged a shift that was beginning: from the Holocaust as ‘living memory’ to ‘mediated memory’. It is fair to say that as we face a sad, but impending future without survivors to share their stories that this mediated memory will be predominately a ‘digital Holocaust memory’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restrictions imposed on institutions due to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic forced online major commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the last Nazi concentration camps, and the end of World War II. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, as Holocaust museums and archives discover and experiment with emerging technologies, the digital memoryscape expands, enfolding amateur produsers<\/em>, digital creators, and an increasing force of counter-memory in the forms of neo-Nazism, and Holocaust denial and distortion online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is this context that this project wishes to explore. The Digital Holocaust Memory <\/strong>project includes three threads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Mapping the digital Holocaust memoryscape<\/strong>, from institutional to amateur projects<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Exploring the ‘newness’ <\/strong>of digital Holocaust memory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Establishing a network <\/strong>of heritage and archive professionals, academics, amateur and professional media producers, and digital audiences\/users to explore potential digital futures for Holocaust memory<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    You can find out more about the project leader Victoria Grace Walden here <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you are interested in collaborating, do get in touch!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Since April 2021 the site has been published by open access multi-media publishing platform REFRAME<\/a>, supported by the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Plan of Action<\/strong> (Work in Progress)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2020 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Establishment of Museums and Memory <\/strong>working group of the Memory Studies Association<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Establishment of Digital Holocaust Memory <\/strong>blog and webinar series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Submission of edited collection The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Submission of edited collection Digital Holocaust Memory, Research and Education<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Submission of article #TogetherAsOne: Online Commemorations during the Covid-19 Pandemic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Funding submissions for a digital archive of 2020 online commemorations, and for field work, network events and participatory workshops<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Online network meetings established<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Commence work on monograph Digital Holocaust Memory: Hyperconnective Museums and Archives of the future<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Creation of commemoration archive (funding permitted)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fieldwork exploring digital media projects at museum and archive sites<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Participatory workshops at various museum and archive sites with local publics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Publication of guidelines report based on participatory workshops<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Continuation of interviews and remote walkthroughs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Continuation of monograph development <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Submission of monograph Digital Holocaust Memory: Hyperconnective Museums and Archives of the Future<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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