Thursday, June 8
DH + Human Labor
10:00-10:30 Intro to Museum Resources: Digital Collections
10:30-11:00 Intro to Photo Archives
11:00-12:00 [Discussion] What is an Archive in a Digital Age?
Discussion Readings: Earhart; Kassow
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 [Lecture] Issues in DH and the Holocaust
2:00-2:45 [Group Activity] Analysis of DH Holocaust Projects
- Database of Greek-Jewish Holocaust Survivors’ Testimony
- Deportation of Jews from France
- Some were Neighbors online exhibit
- Rachel Deblinger, Memories/Motifs
- Yad Vashem, The Auschwitz Album
- Anne Frank House: Explore the House; Anne Frank Timeline
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:20 Social Media and the Holocaust: USHMM on Instagram
3:20-4:30 [Discussion] Holocaust Selfies and the Ethics of Self-Representation
Discussion Readings: Holocaust and Social Media in the News (all texts)
4:30-5:00 [Group Activity] Create an Instagram assignment to be used in the classroom
Readings:
- Amy E. Earhart, “Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon,” in Matthew K. Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 309-318.
- Samuel D. Kassow, Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), Selections.
- Tara McPherson, “Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities.” Cinema Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, 2009, pp. 119–123.
- Holocaust and Social Media in the News:
- Jason Francisco, “The Selfie and the Monument: Shahak Shapira’s Yolocaust” LA Review of Books, Feb 13, 2017
- Dewey, Caitlin. 2014. “The Other Side of the Infamous Auschwitz Selfie,” The Washington Post, July 22, 2014.
- “Auschwitz Selfie Girl Defends Actions,” USA Today, July 23, 2014
- “Danny Green, NBA Player, Apologizes For Holocaust Selfie,” Huffington Post, October 8, 2014
- Lilit Marcus, “#Holocaust selfies are inevitable if you turn solemn sites into tourist traps,” The Guardian, October 9, 2014
- “Gays, Grinder, the Holocaust Memorial, and Art: An Interview with Marc Adelman,” Hyperallergic, Dec 21, 2012
Additional Readings for Reference (re: selfies):
- Nishant Shah, “The Selfie and the Self, Part 1″; “The Selfish Selfie and Simulation, Part 2“; “The Disappearing Selfie, Part 3“, DML Central
- Lev Manovich, selfiecity