Forum Sessions

Morning Sessions

Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Ubuntu Room

8:30 – 9:00 Check in

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome

9:30 – 10:45 Panel #1 Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

Panelist: Ben Lee, University of Washington
Title: AI & the Future of Holocaust Memory: Reflections, Provocations, Refusals

Panelist: Ari Kohen, University of Nebraska
Title: “The past is not detached from the present”: Studying the Impact of Personal Narratives on Holocaust Education

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:15 Panel #2 Visualizations and Testimony

Panelists:

• Hollie Marquess, Fort Hays State University
• Amber Nickell, Fort Hays State University

Title: Intertwined: The Complexities of Mapping Holocaust Testimonies for the American Midwest

Afternoon Sessions

Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Ubuntu Room

1:15 – 2:15 Panel #3 Analogue to Digital

Panelists:

Panelist: Alberto Giordano, Texas State University
TItle: Analog to Digital: Visualizing the Stages of the Holocaust through Geography

Panelist: Anika Walke, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Digitization, Interdisciplinarity, and the Archive of Experience: Reflections on the Holocaust Ghettos Project

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 4:00 Panel #4 Student Approaches to Digital Holocaust Memory

Student Project Flash Session

Break

Evening

Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity Room

7:00 - Harris Center for Judaic Studies-Henry and Gretl Wald Lecture

Keynote speaker: Professor Nils Roemer, University of Texas-Dallas

Title: Mapping Catastrophe: From maps to digital interfaces.

Morning Sessions

Location: Andrews Hall – Bailey Library

9:00 – 10:45 Workshop: Exploring the Digital Memory Database 

Victoria Richardson-Walden, Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, Sussex University (joining us online in Bailey Library)

Title: Critical Engagement with Digital Technologies Relating to Holocaust Memory, Space, and Place

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:00

Summative Scholar Roundtable & Discussion with community participants

Afternoon

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch and CDRH Reception