Keynote I: Pixels and Hashtags of the Past: The Holocaust in the Digital Age

by Dr. Eva Pfanzelter (University of Innsbruck)

Keynote II: Conserving and Communicating the Indescribable: Attempts to Shape the Future Memory of the Holocaust and Nazi Crimes

by Prof. Paul F.M.J. Verschure (SPECS Lab, Alicante Institute of Neuroscience, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche & Future Memory Foundation)

Dialogues I Launch: Computer Games and Holocaust Memory

Guest Chair: Dr. Nick Webber (Birmingham City University and Historical Games Network)

Provocateur: Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden

Contributors: Silvina Fernandez-Duque and Russ Sitka (the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), Jörg Friedrich (Paintbucket Games), Dr. Tabea Widmann (Zeppelin Museum), Dr. Alina Bothe (Freie Univeristät Berlin)

Roundtable: What is the Future of Holocaust Memory on Social Media?

Chair: Dr. Kate Marrison (University of Sussex)

Discussants: Ton Mascini (Anne Frank House), Dr. Iris Groschek (Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres Commemorating the Victims of Nazi Crimes), Laura Nicolli Kullock (Holocaust Museum Curitiba, Brazil), Marie Zachger (SHOAH STORIES project), Katja S. Baumgärtner (associated at Selma-Stern-Center for Jewish Studies)

Official Opening: Digital Memory Database Beta-Launch

Led by: Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Ben Pelling, and Kate Marrison (University of Sussex)

Watch the recordings of selected sessions from Expo Day 1.

Masterclass: Bearing Witness: The Future of Holocaust Memory Through Immersive Technology

Led by: Darren Emerson (East City Films)

Showcase: Cultures of Remembrance in Dark Times

Led by: Maryia Aksiuchyts (Educat)

Showcase: Forget What You Know: Experience as Inoculation Tactic

Led by: Ellen Pilsworth and Prof. David Brauner (University of Reading), and Daniel Barnard (Fast Familiar)

Let’s Play: A New Digital Remembrance Game – Remember. The Children of Bullenhuser Damm

Chair: Christian Huberts (freelance Cultural Scientist)

Discussants: Markus Basserman (Foundation of Hamburg Memorials), Jörg Friedrich (Paintbucket Games), Dr Lucas Haasis (Gamelab Oldenburg University)

Player: Clara Klapprodt (Freie Universität, Berlin)

Hypertalk: MEMORISE – Digital Tools and Formats to Access Former Camp Sites

Speakers: Stephanie Billib, Dr. Richard Khulusi, and Marc Ellinghaus (Bergen-Belsen Memorial), Aliisa Råmark (Radboud University), Cathrin Steiner and Paul Sommersguter (Fluxguide), Prof. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and Esther Rachow (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Showcase: His Duty To Talk: Teaching the Holocaust Using AR

Led by: Sarah Klein (Holocaust Museum LA)

Showcase: iWalk: Video-Testimony-Based Local History Walks with a Mobile App

Led by: Dr. Monika Mezei and Gabriella Komoly (Zachor Foundation)

Watch the recordings of selected sessions from Expo Day 2.

Showcase: Puzzling Curiosity: The Inquest Experiment

Led by: Russ Sitka (the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Hypertalk Panel: Trawniki: Nexus of the Final Solution Project “Visualizing a Campscape and its Microhistories”

Speakers: Caroline Sturdy-Colls, Daria Cherkaska, Kevin Colls, William Mitchell, Joanna Zofia Spyra (University of Huddersfield), Tamir Hod (Tel-Hai College), Tom Vine (Staffordshire University)

Showcase: Žanis: Through Our Eyes. Multi-plot Documentary for Virtual Reality

Led by: Raivis Sīmansons (Žanis Lipke Memorial) and Cory McLeod (Rise and Shine & Partners)

Showcase: A Dangerous Journey

Led by: Andrés Bartos Amory, and Lucija Stojević (Noon Films)

Let’s Play: Testimony 360

Chair: Christian Huberts (freelance Cultural Scientist)

Discussants: Clementine Smith and Amy Gee (Holocaust Educational Trust)

Showcase: Mercy Squad Immersive – Perpetrators and Protectors in the Nazi War of Annihilation against the Soviet Union

Led by: Angela Shapiro (Gathering the Voices/ Glasgow Caledonian University), Ben Shepherd and Hamid Homatash (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Watch the recordings of selected sessions from Expo Day 3.

Hypertalk Panel: Digital Testimony

Speakers: Sylwia Papier (Jagiellonian University), Mirah Langer (University of Vienna), Corinna Alexandra Schindler (University of Passau), Christian Zipfel (filmmaker and VR artist), Antonia Friebel (Chemnitz University of Technology).

Showcase: Verbrannte Orte: Open Data about the Places of the Book Burnings in 1933

Led by: Jan Schenck (Memorial Project Verbrannte Orte e.V.)

Showcase: Normandie: A Documentary Video Game

Led by: Sam Butin (Games and XR Storyteller)

Hypertalk Panel: Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation Online

Speakers: Samuel Merrill, Simon Lindgren, Eric Boyd (DIGSUM, Umeå University), Tobias-Ebbrecht Hartmann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Sophie Schmalenberger (Aarhus University)

Let’s Play: #Last Seen

Chair: Christian Huberts (freelance Cultural Scientist)

Discussants: Alina Bothe and Lisa Paduch (Freie Univeristät Berlin), Jana Klosterman (&Why)

Player: Alexander Dohr (&Why)

Showcase: Kristallnacht VR

Led by: Rachel Ferrucci, Barbara Ghammashi and Abigail Prade (Claims Conference)

Hypertalk Panel: AI and Holocaust Memory

Speakers: Mykola Makhortykh (University of Bern), Evgeny Kalachikhin (Film Universität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), Ada Alster (Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre), Andrés Bartos Amory and Lucija Stojević (Noon Films)

Showcase: Beyond Nuremberg: A Prototype Playtest

Led by: Clarissa J. Ceglio and Ken Thompson (Greenhouse Studios, University of Connecticut)

Showcase: Kitchener Camp Mark II – Towards VR

Led by: Clare Weissenberg (Kitchener Project)

Hypertalk: Collections, Museums and the Digital

Speakers: Simone Gigliotti (Royal Holloway, University of London), Kinga S. Bloch (Queen Mary, University of London), Marco Streefkerk (Anne Frank House)

Let’s Play: Voices of the Forgotten – Anne Frank Young Voices and Light in the Darkness

Chair: Christian Huberts (freelance Cultural Scientist)

Discussants: Lexy Graves (Voices of the Forgotten), Sofia Shield (Anne Frank Los Angeles

Let’s Play: The Darkest Files: Holocaust History in a Mainstream Game Format

Chair: Christian Huberts (freelance Cultural Scientist)

Discussants: Jörg Friedrich (Paintbucket Games)