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1 Table of Contents Welcome 3 Project “Croatian Memories” 4 Sponsors of DTWT2013 5 Programme 6 Practical information 12 Conference venue & Transport 13 Map Campus 15 Places to eat 16 Social events in Rotterdam 20 Abstracts & Biographies Speakers 21 2 Welcome Dear participant, It is both an honour and a pleasure for the Erasmus Studio to welcome you at this international, multi- disciplinary conference Digital Testimonies on War and Trauma. As the institute of e-research of the Erasmus University Rotterdam we favor an approach of oral history that is multidisciplinary and encourages a fruitful dialogue between humanists, archivists and computer scientists. Having been involved in the project Croatian Memories has enriched our insights regarding the specific character of narratives that deal with war and repression. The possibility of sharing these narratives online has many implications for the way the material is collected, structured and presented, not only for the project, but also for the narrators. It is no coincidence that the 20th century has been characterized as the ‘The era of the Witness’ by Annette Wieviorka and the 21st has been labeled ‘The End of forgetting’ by Jeffrey Rosen. Technology has given us better tools to bear witness and to preserve our memories. Yet, what the implications for our understanding of these accounts are, is still a point open to discussion. This conference intends to stimulate this discussion and to solidify our knowledge on the impact of experiences of conflict and trauma that have been recorded and conveyed in digital form. With the experience, insights and reflections to be shared during the conference we hope that the plans for the use of collections of this type, both in scholarly contexts and beyond, can be brought to a new level of maturity. This conference would not have been possible without the dedication and enthusiastic cooperation of many colleagues. We would like to thank the programme committee (Christian Gudehus, Kruno Kardov, Saša Madacki and Julia Noordegraaf) in helping to select the papers for the conference. We are also grateful to the Erasmus Trustfonds, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USC Shoah Foundation and Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap for their generous financial support. Last but not least, we would like to thank Goga and Elmir of catering “ProefBalkan” for giving the conference a regional touch. We wish you all a very inspiring conference! Laura Boerhout Franciska de Jong Stef Scagliola Organizing committee DTWT conference 3 Project “Croatian Memories” Project description In the CroMe project, between 400 and 500 citizens of Croatia from all social layers and regions are interviewed about their personal experiences during three timeframes: the second World War, the period of socialist Yugoslavia and the war of the 90s. The objective is to document personal experiences on war and detention that cannot be found in written sources and that provide important information for the process of dealing with the past. The interviews will be transcribed, elaborated, translated and indexed, and an appropriate subset of the material will be stored on an open internet platform with direct access possibilities, hosted by Documenta, in Zagreb. By default and based on so-called informed consent from the interviewees, the full version of the narratives (i.e. without any cutting of the material) will also be made available for the international scientific community in a password-protected environment. By presenting these narratives in an edited format in an online environment, CroMe aims to contribute to the process of dealing with the past. The project specifically addresses experiences of minorities in Croatia that are hitherto not well-represented in the public realm. The CroMe project runs from May 2010 till October 2013 and is funded as a Matra project by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The interview collection will be launched in the fall of 2013 through this website: www.croatianmemories.org. Cf. also the information pages and links to related projects at: www.postyugoslavvoices.org Consortium Erasmus Studio, Erasmus Universiteit Roterdam, The Netherlands Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past, Zagreb, Croatia Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands, cluster Human Media Interaction DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services), The Hague, The Netherlands Noterik BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Sponsors of DTWT 2013 We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations: 5 Programme Wednesday 12 June from 12.00 onwards Registration 12.00 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 - 14.00 Opening ceremony Room Prof. Franciska de Jong M1-17 Erasmus Studio / Erasmus University Rotterdam 14.00 - 15.30 Keynote speech I Room Going Beyond the ‘Juicy Quotes’ Syndrome’: Living Archives M1-17 and Reciprocal Research in Oral History. Dr. Steven High - Concordia University Montreal, Canada Co-director Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling & Prof. Liz Miller - Concordia University Montreal, Canada Professor of Communications and filmmaker 15.30 - 15.45 Coffee & Tea 15.45 - 17.15 Panel Session A + B Session A o Fragments of our memory: exile, emigration and Room Digital Testimonies I return to the Basque Country” M1-16 Pedro Oiarzabal Chair: Prof. Rob van der (Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute, University of Laarse – University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain) Amsterdam, The o War in Croatia – An oral history of the foreign Netherlands volunteers Ivan Radoš (Croatian Memorial Documentation Center of the Homeland War, Croatia) o Testimony, Coping, and Staying in Touch: Storytelling in American Soldier Blogs from the Perspective of Native American Warrior Ceremonies Frank Usbeck (Technical University Dresden, Germany) 6 Session B o Perpetrator narratives from the Bosnian war, 1991- Room Ethical aspects and 1995. Seven case studies M1-17 constraints of oral Maja Coric history (NIOD Institute for War- Holocaust and Genocide studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Chair: Prof. Leyla Neyzi – o Digital Media and Dangerous Narratives: The Case of Sabanci University, Post-Genocide Rwanda Istanbul, Turkey Erin Jessee (Liu Institute for Global Issues, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) o Digital access to the Visual History Archive: USC Shoah Foundation’s evolution on access to its testimonies Karen Jungblut (USC Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California, U.S.A.) o Oral Histories as Community Narratives: The Road to Reconciliation? Heleen Touquet (University of Leuven, Belgium) 17.15 - 18.00 Recording Personal Memories in the aftermath of the Wars Room and Dealing with a Challenge of affirming Social Dialogue on M1-17 Different Interpretations of History Vesna Teršelič Documenta. Center for Dealing with the Past 18.00 – 19.30 Reception 7 Thursday 13 June 09.00 - 09.15 Coffee & Tea 09.15 - 10.45 Keynote Speech II Room M1-17 Oral History in the Digital Age Prof. Douglas W. Oard Professor of Information Studies - University of Maryland, U.S.A. & Prof. Mark Kornbluh Professor of History - University of Kentucky, U.S.A. 10.45-11.00 Coffee & Tea 11.00-12.45 Panel Session C + Special Session D Session C o Structuring metadata in a polysemic environment: Room ICT/Archives case study BiHMe M1-16 Aida Hajro and Nina Karać Chair: Dr. Arjan van (Human Rights Centre, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia Hessen – Utrecht and Herzegovina) Institute of Linguistics o Forced Labor 1939-1945 – Creating an Online Archive and University of Cord Pagenstecher Twente, The Netherlands (Center for Digital Systems, Free University Berlin, Germany) o Multidisciplinary analysis of oral history collections: emotions in narrative psychology and automatic human behavior analysis Khiet P. Truong, Gerben J. Westerhof, Sanne M.A. Lamers and Franciska de Jong (Human Media Interaction and Department of Psychology, Health and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands) 8 Session D o Memory and Conflict in Contemporary Colombian Room PhD Master Class. Documentary Film M2-06 Memory of Conflicts Alejandra Meneses (Independent researcher Documentary Film Group Chair: Prof. Julia Columbia) Noordegraaf – o War in Croatia 1991: Oral history and the question of University of the Croatian Defense Forces (HOS) Amsterdam, The Tomislav Sulj Netherlands (University of Zagreb, Croatia) o “A man is not what he feels like”: Identities of the Czechoslovak Jews in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive Jakub Mlynar (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) o Conflict, Remembrance and Big Data: Twitter and World-War-II Memory Mykola Makhortykh (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 12.45 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 -15.30 Keynote Speech III Room M1-17 Forced Labor 1939-1945 Prof. Nicolas Apostolopoulos Director Competence Centre e-Learning / Multimedia and ICT specialist - Free University of Berlin, Germany & Dr. Alexander van Plato Director Centre for History and Biography and curator - Fern University of Hagen, Germany 15.30 -15.45 Coffee & Tea 9 15.45 -17.15 Panel Session E + Special Session F Session E o The Chechnya Memory Project Room Digital Testimonies II Emma Gilligan and Graham Stinnet M1-16 (University of Connecticut, U.S.A.) Chair: Karen Jungblut – o Memory of Nations platform. Using oral history USC Shoah Foundation, digital testimonies as a source for further research University of Southern Eva Kubatova California U.S.A. (The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic) o Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Using Digital Testimonies