This year's focus for the Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities is "Visualizing Holocaust Memory through the Digital Humanities: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Ethical Challenges". The forum will be held April 16-17 at UNL.
Novel integrations that reveal the complex layers of Holocaust history will be introduced and discussed with our scholars during this Forum.
> How has the interpretation of Holocaust content shifted in the digital age?
> How might big data provide visualization that was not previously attainable?
> In what ways are ethical boundaries blurred or sharpened as researchers and developers leverage their disciplines within Holocaust-related scholarship via digital expressions?
The Forum will feature senior and early-career scholars working on broadly defined topics in Holocaust memory and historiography. Our invited speakers this year include:
> Nils Roemer, University of Texas-Dallas, "Digital Studies of the Holocaust Project -New Ways to Remember Victims of the Holocaust"
> Alberto Giordano, Texas State University, "Analog to Digital: Visualizing the Stages of the Holocaust through Geography"
> Anika Walke, Carnegie Mellon University, "Digitization, Interdisciplinarity, and the Archive of Experience: Reflections on the Holocaust Ghettos Project"
> Victoria Richardson-Walden, Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, Sussex University, "Critical Engagement with Digital Technologies Relating to Holocaust Memory, Space, and Place"
> Ben Lee, University of Washington, "AI & the Future of Holocaust Memory: Reflections, Provocations, Refusals"
> Amber Nickell & Hollie Marquess, Fort Hays State University, "Intertwined: The Complexities of Mapping Holocaust Testimonies for the American Midwest"
You can find the full program here. The forum is free and open to the university community.