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Call for applications: Working with wartime testimonies: practical workshop in digital humanities

19. 4. 2024

Call for applications: Working with wartime testimonies: practical workshop in digital humanities

24-25 May 2024, Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prague

During the workshop „Working with wartime testimonies: practical workshop in digital humanities" organized within a Charles University 4EU+ student mini-grant, the participants will explore existing digital archives housing wartime testimonies, especially regarding the ongoing Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but also the archives of Holocaust survivors’ testimonies as well as those who survived the Syrian Civil War. Ethical considerations loom large in this discussion, with the project addressing the sensitive nature of working with wartime testimonies. The workshop seeks to showcase the opportunities digital tools offer for preserving and analyzing wartime testimonies. Through practical exercises, keynote lectures, panel discussions, and student presentations, participants will gain insight into utilizing digital tools effectively, enabling them to engage with testimonies in innovative and interdisciplinary ways. Participants will explore issues of trauma, consent, and privacy and learn strategies for ethically collecting, preserving, and disseminating testimonies in a way that respects the dignity and agency of those involved while considering their own psychological well-being, too.


Keywords

  • Digital Humanities

  • Wartime Testimonies

  • Memory Studies

  • Memory Transmission

  • Memory and War


Organisational information

We invite MA and PhD students to join the workshop. Students can also present and discuss their research connected to the workshop topics and get relevant feedback from senior scholars and fellow students. Interested students should submit a brief letter of motivation and a description of their research if they plan to present (max. 250 words). In case of a high volume of applications, priority will be given to those planning to present their research.

Please apply by 5 May 2024, to .

For selected participants from 4EU+ member universities and for MA and PhD students from Ukraine we can offer a travel grant of 300 €.


Program of the workshop