"European Cultural Memory in its Digitalization.
Inventing Cultural Memory in the 21st Century?"

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Conference Programme

Wednesday 06.11.2024

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome - Opening
9:15-10:30
SESSION I The politics of digitisation and heritage preservation
Chair: Gerald Lamprecht
  • Digitising European minority heritage: the case of Yiddish
    Gerben Zaagsma, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxemburg
  • The Elephant Memory in the Room. Exploring French Discrimination in European Cultural Memory through Digital Archives
    Néhémie Strupler, Durham University
  • Transformation of Riegl’s Modern Cult of Monuments
    Nikola Beim, University of Applied Arts Vienna
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:40
SESSION II Creating, linking, visualising heritage data
Chair: Ioanna Angelidou
  • European Cultural Memory - On Mapping, Minding and Closing Current Gaps
    Florian Windhager1, Gregor Pobežin2, Eva Mayr1, 1University for Continuing Education in Krems, 2Scientific and Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • OperaSampo: Enhancing digitally historical music theatre performance culture
    Anne Kauppala1, Annastiina Ahola2, Heikki Rantala2, and Eero Hyvönen2, 1University of Arts, Helsinki, 2Aalto University
  • Historical census microdata from Southeastern Europe as digital archive in Graz
    Siegfried Gruber, Daniel-Armin Đumić, University of Graz
  • Mapping cultural heritage: approaching a European neighborhood through digitalized historical sources (Paris, 19th century)
    Charlotte Duvette, Marina Hervieu, Paul Kervegan, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris
12:40-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:10
SESSION III Digital Heritage Infrastructures
Chair: Georg Vogeler
  • Constructing European Heritage: Digitality as a Cultural Instrument
    Carlotta Capurro, Utrecht University
  • Public digital infrastructures, the key for sustainability for digital cultural heritage and research
    Chris de Loof, BELNET and the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
  • Identifying Cultural Memory in the European Written Digital Environment
    Ines Vodopivec, National and University Library of Slovenia
  • Digitization and Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Serbia 2012-2023: Strategy, Projects, and Transformation of Cultural Memory
    Bogdan Trifunović, Čačak Public Library, Serbia
16:10-16:40 Coffee break
16:40-17:40
KEYNOTE
Chair: Georg Vogeler
Reimagining European Cultural and Collective Memory: Immersive Technologies and Digital Research Infrastructures
Agiatis Benardou, President of the Board of Directors, DARIAH-EU
18:30-19:30
POSTER SESSION
Chair: Dušan Ristić
  • Navigating Identity: Exploring European Cultural Memory Through Kosovo's Lens
    Qendresa Ajeti, Technical University of Munich
  • Processing Trials materials from the Soviet Propaganda to artificial intelligence, OSINT and personal strategies
    Natalia Tikhonova, Freelance artist and curator
  • International Mechanisms as Accelerators for Digital Cultural Heritage Access and Reuse: UNESCO MoW Projects and Twin it! 3D Action for Building a Common European Cultural Identity
    Ines Vodopivec, National and University Library of Slovenia
  • Heritage Digital Enrichment for cultural heritage preservation in Portugal
    Márcia Vilarigues1, Nuno Correia2, Raquel Estrompa3, João Fortuna3, Paul J.C. van Laar1, Sérgio Gonçalves2, Lúcia Leitão3, Tiago Martins3, Gabriela da Rocha3, Rui Rodrigues3, 1Department of Conservation and Restoration and VICARTE, NOVA SST, Portugal; 2Department of Computer Science and NOVALINCS, NOVA SST, Portugal; 3NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Reshaping cultural memory through digital cultural heritage: a case study from Piazza Armerina digital project
    Giulia Marsili, University of Bologna (online)
  • From Analog to Digital – and back! Advancing Cultural Collections by Digital Methods
    Eva Mayr1, Florian Windhager1, Annerose Tartler2, Simon Mayer2, 1University for Continuing Education in Krems; 2Austrian National Library
  • Transferproof European cultural heritage: A digital data-driven analaysis through the LaCAS platform
    Liliane Hodieb, INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales), Paris
  • From Play to Preservation: The Role of Digital Games in Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
    Vera Piontkowitz, Leipzig University
  • Accidents of Audiovisual Heritage: Digitisation and/as Patrimonialisation at the BnF and Beyond
    Sarah Fuchs, Royal College of Music, London
  • The MAXXI Architecture Archives: a bridge between Past and Future
    Carla Zhara Buda, MAXXI Architecture Archives Centre, Roma
  • ‘It was good, but the video kept freezing’: Digitising ‘Relevant Memory’ in Dachau Memorial Site, 1990-2023
    Beatrice Leeming, University of Cambridge (online)
  • Playing Statues: Digitalized Monuments in Ukrainian Videogames
    Ian R. Lehine, New York University
  • All the heritage, just one click away? Digital exhibitions in the context of European cultural memory
    Martin Siefkes, Julia Pfeiffer, TU Chemnitz
  • Europeana as an Open Archive of Museum Architecture
    Helena Barranha, University of Lisbon
  • Datafication of the life of Ernest Adamič. How digital humanities are changing the ways cultural heritage experts think about research material and their research workflow.
    Meden Ahac, ZRC SAZU Ljubljana
19:30 RECEPTION

Thursday 07.11.2024

9:00-10:40
SESSION IV Digital museum experiences
Chair: Chiara Zuanni
  • Digitisation and Access: Shifting from collections as information to socio-affective connections
    Maria Economou1, Cassandra Kist2, 1University of Glasgow, 2University of Strathclyde
  • A shared European heritage? Exploring migration in digital museum exhibitions
    Tessa Hauswedell, University College London
  • Intersecting Art and Technology: Digital Frontiers in Museum Installations
    Dario Rodighiero, University of Groningen
  • Shaping cultural memory: Comparing the Strengths and Limitations of Popular media and museum mediation
    Béatrice Gauvain, University of Basel
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:20
SESSION V Intangible Cultural Heritage and Memory Practices in the Digital Age
Chair: Dušan Ristić
  • Representing Digitally the Matter of Language
    Nadia Cannata1, Maia W. Gahtan2, Margaret Sonmez3, 1Sapienza University of Rome, 2Kent State University, 3Middle East Technical University
  • Unveiling Cultural Memories and Narratives: An Urban Museum Polyxeni Mantzou1, Xenofon Bitsikas1, Anastasios Floros2, Aris Panagiotidis Diktampanis1, 1University of Ioannina, 2Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  • Empowering Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation through Immersive Experiences and AI-Driven Technologies
    Vera Kriezi, Valia Vraka, Alexandros Charkiolakis, Music Library of Greece, The Friends of Music Society
  • 15 min. break

  • Remembering the 1990s on Lithuanian social media through the affiliative power of objects
    Costis Dallas & Ingrida Kelpšienė, Vilnius University
  • Social media and the democratisation of local heritage: A case study of the Digital Heritage of West Pomerania project
    Krzysztof Wasilewski, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
13:20-13:30 Conclusion