Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

4th Global Conference

Thursday 15th March – Saturday 17th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Thursday 15th March
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Daniel Riha

14:00
Session 1: Concepts in Digitizing Individual and Community Memory
Chair: Daniel Riha

Digitalized Memory and The Loss of Social Memory
Dilek Özhan Koçak and Orhan Kemal Koçak

Memory and Place: From Ancient Individual Memory to Cyberspace as Contemporary Collective Memory
Segah Sak

Cyberspace, Memory and Social Movements: The Case of the Green Movement in Post-Election Iran
Babak Rahimi

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: Social Networking and its Impact on Memories
Chair: Harris Breslow

Social and Technological Influences on Engagement with Personal Memory Objects: A Media Roles Perspective
Tim Fawns, Hamish Macleod and Ethel Quayle

Shaping Collective Memories Online: Facebook as a New Arena for the Bulgarian-Macedonian Conflict
Marta Marcheva

Social Network Connections as the Medium: Relations that tell Stories
Alexander Ronzhyn

17:30
Notices and Announcements

17:40
Wine Reception

Friday 16th March
09:00
Session 3: Transformation and Re-Interpretation of Memories in New Media
Chair: Owen Kelly

(He)artbreaking to the Core. Zombie Data and the Arts of Re/de/transcoding
Nina Wenhart

Shaping the World through Digital Memory - How Digital Representations influence Traditional Values and Memory
Ivana Ćirić

Making Sense of Digitally Modified Family Photograph
Pelin Aytemiz

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Platforms and Applications
Chair: Tim Fawns

Snowcastle Valley: the Palace of Loci on a USB Stick
Owen Kelly

Memory 2.0: As Technology Changes the Thought and how the Thought Survives as Itself.
Gevisa La Rocca

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Digital Memories and Cultural Heritage
Chair: Nina Wenhart

Merging the Virtual and the Physical: Spatializing the Digital Jewish Monument in the Hollandsche Schouwburg
David Duindam

“Performing the Archives”
Karen Frostig

How Digitalization has unveiled Secret Memories: The Case of Samizdat Writings
Stefania Mella

16:00
Coffee

16:30
Session 6: – Panel
Chair: Patrick McEntaggart

Archiving Outside the Box
Stephanie Sarah Lauke and Nina Wenhart

Saturday 17th March
09:00
Session 7: Memory Architectures
Chair: Ewan Kirkland

Can There be Memory in a World of Flow
Harris Breslow

Digital Memories and Rhetorical Devices: A Temporal Analysis of the Web
Kevin Day

Objects of Storytelling and Digital Memory
Patrick McEntaggart

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: New Media Formats
Chair: Kevin Day

Digital Anxiety, Gothic Media and Shattered Memories in Silent Hill
Ewan Kirkland

The Role of Fun in Serious Historical Simulations
Daniel Riha

Augmenting Reality: Experiencing the Past Through Digital Technologies
Bryan Carter

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Media Archeologies
Chair: Karen Frostig

Transitioning from the Concept of Social Tagging to Real Users of Historical Memory: A Digital System and Folksonomies of Spanish Civil War
Gemma Masó-Maresma and Marisa Ecija-Sanchez

Connective Memory in the Digital Era: Exploring Railway Memories in Singapore
Brenda Chan

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

16:30
Conference Ends