Digital Holocaust Memory
Digital Holocaust Memory is an experimental digital project led by Dr Victoria Grace Walden, Senior Lecturer in Media, which seeks to understand digital memory as a complex entanglement of a diverse range of human and nonhuman actants. It aims to map the digital Holocaust memoryscape, interrogate the “newness” of such interventions, and establish a cross-sector and interdisciplinary network focused on exploring potential digital futures for Holocaust memory.
In Year 1, the platform hosted: 25 blog posts; 10 online discussions with academics, Holocaust heritage professionals, and games designers; a crowd-sourced reading list; and Discord Server. It reached 6,500 unique visitors from 87 nations. In Year 2, it published an edited collection with Palgrave Macmillan, Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research; developed a workshop series with international partners; and established a 20-strong, international editorial board to transform it into “a dynamic, transdisciplinary, networked, participatory publishing platform”.
The project has been:
- Acquired in April 2021 by REFRAME, who specialise in innovative digital academic outputs.
- Awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the Hidden REF 2021 category Communicative Outputs.
- Nominated for Digital Humanities Award ‘Best Use of DH for Public Engagement’.
- Awarded a BA/Leverhulme small research grant to pursue fieldwork 2022-23.