Book Launch of the EHRI-AT Publication “Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space” Edited by: Eva Pfanzelter, Dirk Rupnow, Kovács Éva and Marianne Windsperger

On 14 October the first EHRI-AT publication was presented in an online book launch event organized by the EHRI-AT partners VWI and the University of Innsbruck. 

The edited volume “Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives in Digital Space” is part of the De Gruyter Series “Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics“. Contributions are based on the first EHRI-AT Conference and explore how the history of the Holocaust and its commemoration are produced, staged and framed in the World Wide Web – by memorials, by research institutions and by individual users.

First, Andreas Fickers, C2DH Luxembourg and editor of the De Gruyter Series, presented the series as a publication platform in the field of digital history and hermeneutics, open for new forms of storytelling and hybrid publishing formats. During the podium discussion Andreas Fickers, Éva Kovács (VWI/EHRI-AT) and Eva Pfanzelter (University of Innsbruck/EHRI-AT) and some of the contributing authors discussed questions that emerged from the volumeand are relevant for EHRI as a research infrastructure offering digital platforms and tools: What happens when archival sources, the historical and regional use of language and media is decontextualized to “feed” AI tools? Which new insights in Holocaust studies can be generated using Large Language Models (LLMs) or other AI tools? How can researchers take into account algorithmic representations of historical material?

Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space
Edited by: Eva Pfanzelter, Dirk Rupnow, Kovács Éva and Marianne Windsperger
De Gruyter Brill Oldenbourg

In print & open access
www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111329154/html

Authors:
Eva Pfanzelter, Éva Kovács, Dirk Rupnow, Marianne Windsperger, Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Roberto Ulloa, Marya Sydorova, Juhi Kulshrestha, Mia Berg, Stefania Manca, Silvia Guetta, Anna Carolina Viana, Bárbara Deoti, Maria Visconti, Anja Ballis, Josefine Honke, Edith Blaschitz, Heidemarie Uhl (†), Georg Vogt, Rosa Andraschek, Martin Krenn, Wolfgang Gasser, Iris Groschek, Nicole Steng, Beth S. Dotan, Archie Wolfman & Anna Menyhért