Virtual Holocaust Memory: from Testimony to Holography

虚拟大屠杀记忆：从证词到全息术

• 批准号: AH/M009432/1
• 负责人: Matthew Boswell
• 金额: $ 11.86万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM009432%2F1
• 关键词: Virtual; Holocaust; Memory; Testimony; Holography

This Fellowship investigates the ways that digital culture and the passing of time are shaping a new era of Holocaust remembrance in the West. Broadly focussing on what the Holocaust means for those with no strong personal links to the genocide, the book that will result from this Fellowship coins the term 'virtual Holocaust memory' to describe forms of cultural and educational encounter that are highly experiential, digitally-mediated, and linked to powerful utopian narratives about personal development and political resolution (such as the refrain 'never again'). As digital artworks, museums, memorials and archives proliferate, consuming the Holocaust has become easier than ever before; yet I will question the degree to which the virtual memories engendered within emergent digital societies can underpin significant social change, not least because the rise of virtual Holocaust memory coincides with a period of deepening global economic inequality and political unrest. While recognising the importance of digital culture for the transmission of Holocaust memory, in the book Virtual Holocaust Memory I will argue that Western cultural and educational practice must meaningfully reengage with the traumatic experiences and sense of extremity that made reading, writing and viewing so difficult for survivors and their contemporaries in the immediate post-war period. As well as surveying current digital trends, I will therefore explore non-digital spaces and modes of representation such as literature, poetry and camp sites to ask how their complex representational strategies might inform the digital artworks, archives and institutions of the future. Ultimately, I will argue that virtual Holocaust memory must engage the sense of responsibility towards the past that any personal or collective 'memory', in the strictest sense of the word, might properly be expected to entail.As well as exploring the changing nature of Holocaust memory on theoretical and critical levels, this Fellowship will involve close collaboration with groups who are actively involved in keeping those memories alive. I will run a two week events programme at the newly-opening Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre supported by two postgraduate or early career researchers. Using video conferencing technology we will facilitate a range of transnational and transgenerational interactions between survivors, their families, professionals, volunteers, academics and members of the public at three further partner organisations: the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, the National Holocaust Centre (UK) and the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association (UK). These events will consider how digital technology is shaping Holocaust memory in different global contexts and participants will reflect on how their experiences, skills and expertise might contribute to the future development and use of such technologies.My research will appeal to a wide community of scholars working in Holocaust studies, memory studies, genocide studies and connected disciplines, also prompting debate and discussion amongst teachers, creative practitioners, students, museum professionals and members of the public. I will develop a suite of digital materials for a project website, including professionally-filmed interviews, video essays, vlogs and podcasts, in which Holocaust survivors, researchers and educators will reflect on current issues relating to Holocaust memory and its mediation in digital societies. I will also convene a seminar series for scholars at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York under the title 'Memory, Trauma and Violence', providing an intellectually rigorous forum within which a new generation of researchers will be able to present work-in-progress and engage with world-leading academics on a regular basis.

该奖学金研究数字文化和时间的流逝如何塑造西方大屠杀纪念的新时代。这本书将广泛关注大屠杀对那些与种族灭绝没有密切个人联系的人意味着什么，该奖学金将产生“虚拟大屠杀记忆”一词，以描述文化和教育遭遇的形式，这些形式具有高度的体验性，以数字为媒介，并与关于个人发展和政治解决的强大乌托邦叙事（例如副歌“永不再来”）相关联。随着数字艺术品、博物馆、纪念馆和档案的激增，了解大屠杀变得比以往任何时候都容易；然而，我将质疑新兴数字社会中产生的虚拟记忆在多大程度上能够支撑重大的社会变革，尤其是因为虚拟大屠杀记忆的兴起恰逢全球经济不平等和政治动荡加剧的时期。在认识到数字文化对传播大屠杀记忆的重要性的同时，我将在《虚拟大屠杀记忆》一书中指出，西方文化和教育实践必须有意义地重新接触创伤经历和极端感，这些经历和极端感使幸存者及其同时代人在战后时期难以阅读、写作和观看。因此，除了调查当前的数字趋势，我还将探索非数字空间和表现模式，如文学、诗歌和营地，以询问它们复杂的表现策略如何为未来的数字艺术品、档案和机构提供信息。最后，我认为，虚拟大屠杀记忆必须包含对过去的责任感，这是任何个人或集体“记忆”（从最严格的意义上讲）都应有的责任。除了在理论和关键层面探索大屠杀记忆不断变化的性质外，该奖学金还将涉及与积极参与保持这些记忆鲜活的团体密切合作。我将在新开业的约翰内斯堡大屠杀和种族灭绝中心主持一个为期两周的活动项目，由两名研究生或早期职业研究人员提供支持。利用视频会议技术，我们将促进幸存者、他们的家人、专业人员、志愿者、学者和公众在另外三个伙伴组织之间的一系列跨国和跨代互动：南加州大学大屠杀基金会、国家大屠杀中心（英国）和大屠杀幸存者友好协会（英国）。这些活动将审议数字技术如何在不同的全球背景下塑造大屠杀记忆，与会者将思考他们的经验、技能和专门知识如何有助于未来开发和使用这些技术。我的研究将吸引从事大屠杀研究、记忆研究、种族灭绝研究和相关学科的广泛学者群体，也将引发教师、创意从业者、学生、博物馆专业人员和公众之间的辩论和讨论。我将为一个项目网站开发一套数字材料，包括专业拍摄的采访、视频文章、视频博客和播客，大屠杀幸存者、研究人员和教育工作者将在这些材料中反思与大屠杀记忆及其在数字社会中的调解有关的当前问题。我还将为利兹大学、谢菲尔德大学和约克大学的学者们召开一个题为“记忆、创伤和暴力”的系列研讨会，为新一代的研究人员提供一个学术严谨的论坛，在这个论坛上，他们将能够展示正在进行的工作，并定期与世界领先的学者进行交流。

项目成果

Virtual Holocaust Memory

虚拟大屠杀记忆

• DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197645390.001.0001
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Boswell M