Dear colleagues,
With great pleasure we invite you to our second talk of TB2 in the Department of Religion and Theology Seminar Series at the University of Bristol. This week’s talk is the Annual Student Choice seminar! Please also note the date has been rescheduled to this Tuesday. This talk will thus be held on Tuesday 30 January at 4pm in person in room G.H01 of the Arts Complex (entry via 7 Woodland Road). Please also find below a Zoom link to participate remotely.
Title
Student choice seminar 2023-24: “When digital humanities meets the Holocaust: the practice and ethics of applying digital methods to Holocaust studies”
Speaker
Professor Tim Cole (University of Bristol)
Chair
Dr Lindsey Davidson (University of Bristol)
Abstract
This talk offers reflections on the last decade of work within a number of international interdisciplinary research projects that have experimented with using a variety of digital humanities methods to research the Holocaust. As well as exploring what new knowledge distant reading and digital mapping methods might reveal, the talk critically reflects on the ethics of applying digital methods to Holocaust and Jewish studies.
Bio
Tim Cole is Professor of Social History in the Department of History at the University of Bristol. He has wide ranging interests in social and environmental histories, historical geographies and digital humanities and also works within the creative economy. His core research has focused in the main on Holocaust landscapes – both historical and memory landscapes – writing books on Holocaust representation (Images of the Holocaust/Selling the Holocaust, 1999), the spatiality of ghettoization in Budapest (Holocaust City, 2003), social histories of the Hungarian Holocaust (Traces of the Holocaust, 2011) and the spatiality of survival (Holocaust Landscapes, 2016) as well as co-editing a collection of essays emerging from an interdisciplinary digital humanities project he co-led (Geographies of the Holocaust, 2015). Alongside this research, Tim has also developed interests in environmental history, being a co-editor of a study of military landscapes (Militarised Landscapes, 2010) and author of About Britain, 2021. He is currently working on two main areas: the application of digital humanities methods within Holocaust studies with a particular interest in spatiality; the role of monuments in 20th and 21st century democracies.
The talk will be followed by a Q&A and a reception of drinks and nibbles.
All are welcome!
Please email Dr Toby Matthiesen (toby.matthiesen@bristol.ac.uk) for a Zoom link.