Programme

In memory of Wulf Kansteiner (1964–2025)

  9.30–10.00:     Welcoming coffee

10.00–10.30:     Marek Tamm (Tallinn University): Introduction: What is digital historicity?

10.30–11.15:      Rūta Kazlauskaitė (University of Helsinki): Reconfiguring relations with the past in virtual reality

11.15–11.30:      Comfort break

11.30–12.15:      Sebastian Graf (Lund University): War, memorialisation, and digitality: Affective encounters in Ukrainian virtual museums

12.15–13.00       Oliver Laas (Tallinn University) and Marek Tamm (Tallinn University): Playing history: Reconfiguring relations with the past in historical video games

13.00–14.30:     Lunch (for speakers)

14.30–15.15:      Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden (University of Sussex): Building a living database: Archive of digital Holocaust memory

15.15–16.00:      Martin Pogačar (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Memory escalation: Mnemonic agency in time of AI

16.00–16.30:     Coffee break

16.30–17.15:      Vanessa Agnew (Technische Universität Dortmund): What is the point of a virtual forest?

17.15–18.00:      Hannu Salmi (University of Turku): Computer vision, AI tools and the sense of the past

The seminar will be streamed on https://zoom.us/j/95890935711

The abstracts of the seminar are available here.