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DHd2022 Keynotes
From March 7 to 11, 2022, the Association »Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.« hosted its 8th annual conference virtually at the University of Potsdam and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam under the theme »Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses« (Cultures of Digital Memory).
Each year, one of the highlights of the event are the two keynote speakers at the beginning and end of the conference. This year, Amalia S. Levi and Kathrin Passig have been secured as speakers. The two will address the conference theme from very different perspectives.
While Amalia S. Levi, whose presentation is titled »Filling the Gaps: Digital Humanities as Restorative Justice«, shows how imperial heritage still shapes the way archives, libraries and museums organize and present the world’s memory, Kathrin Passig and her paper »Rucksack oder Rechenzentrum« (Backpack or Computer Center) asks how big ›Big‹ Data actually is, what costs for GLAM institutions are associated with storing and preserving large amounts of data and how this has changed in recent years.
Amalia S. Levi: »Filling the Gaps: Digital Humanities as Restorative Justice«
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Abstract: GLAM collections form the infrastructure of digital humanities work, and digitization has exponentially increased the pool of available primary sources that can be manipulated with computers. At the same time, GLAM institutions embody Western worldviews, imperial expansion, and national aspirations. Using museum, archival and library collections without interrogating layers of power and domination inscribed in objects and documents puts us at risk of perpetuating these structures, and the dominant voices within. Striving to be mindful of gaps and silences in our collections though, we find ourselves locating that which is already visible, because information retrieval systems are predicated on discovery. – In her talk, Amalia S. Levi will showcase how imperial legacies are still shaping how archives, libraries, and museums organize and present world memory. She will also discuss ways that digital humanities methods can potentially help us overcome such limitations, promote a more equitable, nuanced, and multivocal view of our past, and promote restorative justice for silenced actors in the historical record.
Kathrin Passig: »Rucksack oder Rechenzentrum«
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Abstract: ›Big‹ Data - how big is it actually? Hardly anyone has an intuitive idea of the size of digital archives. This is often a hindrance when talking about possible and impossible projects. How much space does Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive or a complete Twitter archive need in terabytes or petabytes and in cubic meters? How much does it cost to store? And what has changed about that in recent years?
