Dr Bohdan Widła was one of the discussants during the webinar "«Future of the Past». New Technologies in Commemorative Practice" , which took place on Tuesday, April 18 as a part of the FestivALT.
Dr Bohdan Widła was one of the discussants during the webinar "«Future of the Past». New Technologies in Commemorative Practice" , which took place on Tuesday, April 18 as a part of the FestivALT. For more information see: https://www.facebook.com/events/168971965978060/?ref=newsfeed
The event was co-organized with the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow as part of the project "NeDiPa: Negotiating Difficult Pasts", which FestivALT is implementing together with Fundacja Zapomniane and the Urban Memory Foundation thanks to the support of the European Union in the framework of the program Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV).
From the webinar description provided by FestivALT:
"New technologies are advancing our ability to document areas of land and space, allowing for for more complex relationships to existing memory archives. This has become incredibly important in the thinking surrounding commemorative practices and building new orders of meaning in how we understand and process memory which will be the main topic of our webinar.
We will talk about the possible forms of using the latest digital technologies in the practice of memory work with:
- conceptual artist Jagoda Wójtowicz,
- Dr. Łucja Kapralska, a sociologist from AGH's Department of Social and Technological Studies,
- legal advisor Dr. Bohdan Widła of the Jagiellonian University,
- Dr Aleksandra Janus, anthropologist and director of Centrum Cyfrowe,
- and Dr. Katarzyna Suszkiewicz – a researcher of Polish-Jewish relations and head of the Education Department of the Galicia Jewish Museum."
