{"id":700,"date":"2020-10-08T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T08:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalholocaustmemory.wordpress.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2021-03-11T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T16:12:17","slug":"digital-holocaust-archives-online-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/digitalholocaustmemory\/2020\/10\/08\/digital-holocaust-archives-online-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Holocaust Archives – Online Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Thursday 1st October, <\/strong>we hosted five speakers working on different Holocaust archive <\/strong>projects in Europe. <\/strong>Wolfgang Ernst<\/a> has argued that digital technologies <\/strong>transform the very idea of what archives are and can be. Traditionally, the archive has been conceptualised (in theory at least) as a place guarded by archons<\/strong> (see Derrida<\/a>), who control the discourse of history<\/strong>, where material objects <\/strong>are kept in static storage<\/strong> until they are brought for viewing by those granted access<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Ernst though, the Internet <\/strong>provides the potential for more dynamic archival spaces <\/strong>and for the creation of archives or archives. <\/strong>How does such a suggestion impact Europe’s Holocaust archives? <\/strong>In the following recordings, our speakers explore sustainability <\/strong>of digital archives, participatory practices<\/strong>, and the potentials and limitations<\/strong> of the digital for the future of Holocaust research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. karel Berkhoff<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our first speaker was Dr. Karel Berkhoff<\/strong>, a Historian of Eastern Europe (particularly Ukraine and the Soviet Union), the Holocaust, and World War II. He is a Senior Researcher<\/strong> at the NIOD<\/a> \u2013 Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies<\/strong> (at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). His publications include: Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule<\/em> (2004) and Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II<\/em> (2012). He spoke to us in this presentation about the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure<\/a><\/strong> . A major project funded by the European Union of which he is scientific coordinator and co-director<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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