[Commlist] Cfp: Holocaust Memory and Education in the Digital Age

*Call for Papers*

*Special Edition of /Holocaust Studies: Culture and History/:*

*‘Holocaust Memory and Education in the Digital Age’*

**

Digital media are playing an increasing role in Holocaust memory and 
education. These include digital mapping projects like 
www.danskejoederitheresienstadt.org 
<http://www.danskejoederitheresienstadt.org/>, VR representations of 
former concentration and death camps, such as the one of Sobibór, 
viewable at Camp Vught in The Netherlands, interactive online archives 
that give researchers and learners the skills necessary to interpret 
documents at the Arolsen Archives (International Tracing Service), and 
3-dimensional and holographic survivor talks in the US and UK. This 
special edition seeks to take stock of the wide range of digital 
projects in these fields and to consider the impact, challenges and 
potentials of such technologies for the future of Holocaust memory and 
education.

Given the increasing presence of Neo-Nazi, alt-right and Holocaust 
denial rhetoric in online spaces, and debates about the corporate 
responsibility of organisations like Google and Facebook, and platforms 
such as 4Chan and 8Chan, it seems particularly timely to address the 
roles digital technology can play in informing cultural and collective 
memory of the Holocaust and educating about this past. These issues 
raise a multitude of questions that we invite potential contributors to 
explore, including but not limited to:

·To what extent do digital Holocaust memory and education projects 
reiterate historical (pre-digital) practices of memorialisation, 
museology and pedagogy?

·To what extent can digital practices disrupt traditional ways of 
remembering and educating about the Holocaust? What are the challenges 
and opportunities of such disruptions, should they exist?

·Do digital technologies raise new questions regarding the ethics of 
Holocaust representation?

·What role can social media platforms and other digital forms play in 
democratizing Holocaust memory and education?

·How do algorithmic and surveillance capitalism risk complicating 
efforts for informed Holocaust education and memory?

·What are/should be/ could be the priorities of Holocaust memory and 
education for the future, through the use of digital technologies?

·Do we indeed really need digital technologies to help us to teach about 
and to remember the Holocaust?

·Is it the responsibility of those working in Holocaust museums, 
memorialisation and education to tackle digital forms of contemporary 
hate crime, antisemitism and Holocaust denial?  If so, how might such 
fights be mobilised in productive ways? If not, whose responsibility is it?

·What are the limitations of different digital technologies and projects 
in the context of Holocaust memory and education?

·How does the digital open up new spaces for Holocaust memory and 
education, with new audiences?

·How do the tensions between techno-utopia, technological determinism 
and techno-scepticism play out in Holocaust memory and education?

·How do digital technologies offer potentials for radically rethinking 
our definitions of the Holocaust memorial, Holocaust memorial museums, 
and Holocaust education?

*Please send abstracts of 200-300 words with a clear title and author 
biography (or no more than 100 words) to Victoria Grace Walden at: 
**(v.walden /at/ sussex.ac.uk)* <mailto:(v.walden /at/ sussex.ac.uk)>* by 20^th 
 November 2019. Completed articles of 8,000 – 10,000 words should be 
submitted by the end of March 2020.*


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