3rd Global Conference (2011)

3rd Global Conference

Monday 14th March – Wednesday 16th March 2011
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

Monday 14th March 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Daniel Riha

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

Arts Office Net Inc.: NoumenArts, Miami Dade Virtual College
Tonietta A. Walters

Archeology of Computer Systems and Multidisciplinary Epistemology. Hypothesis for a Future Historiography
Luca Peretti and Enrico Schirò

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: Social Networking and its Impact on Memories
Chair: Gloria M. Boone

Geopolitical Identity Construction in the Virtual Global Village. The Significance of Regional, National and Transnational Identities in Online Social Networks
Bernadette Kneidinger

Studying Collective Memories in Wikipedia
Michela Ferron

Traumatic Events and Digital Memories: Processing and Remembering the Earthquake in Abruzzi
Alessandra Micalizzi

17:30
Notices and Announcements

17:40
Wine Reception

Tuesday 15^th March 2011
09:00
Session 3: Transformation and Re-Interpretation of Memories in New Media
Chair: Olivier Nyirubugara

The Sokol Project: Family Memories in the Digital Age
Lori Kendall

Memories for Socialism into the Internet Forum of Bulgarian Emigrants in United Kingdom
Mila Maeva

Remixes and Appropriations of Socialist Legacy Online
Valentina Gueorguieva

10:30
Coffee

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

Broadcast your Past: YouTube as a Memorial Platform for Politicisation of Yugoslav Past
Martin Pogacar

How to Explore a Digitalized Autobiographical Corpus: The Case of Frantext
Véronique Montémont

Photosynth: The Global Image Village and the Corporate Panoptical Gaze
Jennifer Estava Davis

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Digital Memories and Cultural Heritage
Chair: Dieter De Bruyn

Identifying Challenges in Museums’ Online Communities
Merja Nummi and Leila Stenfors

Integral Virtual Exhibition for Lithuanian Museums
Donatas Saulevičius

Web-based Video and Historical Thinking: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Use of Cultural Heritage Clips in Secondary History Education
Olivier Nyirubugara

16:00
Coffee

16:30
Session 6: Digital Horizons of Remembering Wars and Conflicts
Chair: Tim Fawns

World War 2.0. Commemorating War and Holocaust in Poland through Facebook and Other Social Media
Dieter De Bruyn

Memory and Transcendence of Place and Time in Online Holocaust Memorials
Gloria M. Boone, Barbara Abrams, and Linda Gallant

Web Wars, or Eastern Europe’s Digital Languages of Memory
Ellen Rutten

Memorial of Deportation
Philippe Campays

Wednesday 16^th March 2011
9:00
Session 7: Past and New Architectures for Memory
Chair: Lori Kendall

Metadata and New Architectures of Memory in Cybermedia Environments
Carlos Henrique Falci

Blended Memory – The Changing Balance of Technologically-mediated Semantic and Episodic Memory
Tim Fawns

An Archeology of Interfaces in Simulation Culture
Seppo Kuivakari

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: New Media Formats
Chair: Martin Pogacar

Gaming through Memories of Past
Daniel Riha

The Specter of the (In)Human in the Holocaust Gamer: Digitalizing Impossible Memory, Undoing History
Manta Alexandra Claudia

Retrogaming Community Memory and Discourses of Digital History
Jaakko Suominen

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Media Archeologies
Chair: Bernadette Kneidinger

Audiovirtual Oblivion: A Media Archaeology of Early Finnish Music Web and Its Vanishing
Janne Mäkelä and Jaakko Suominen

A Community kept alive through Memory: Preserving the Essence of the British Working-Men’s Club
Patrick McEntaggart and Paul Wilson

Mapping Soweto: Geospatial Technologies, Black Townships, and Participatory Digital Archives in the “New South Africa”
Angel David Nieves

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

17:00
Conference Ends