Centre for Public History Annual Conference in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship Hub and MediaLab at QUB
Annual Conference
Lanyon Building 0G/074, Queen’s University Belfast
How is digital technology shaping history in public contexts? How do innovations in fields such as AI and immersive technologies shape how the public and researchers interact with history? What are the opportunities, challenges and risks in digital public history – and for historians using these technologies? Which stories – whose stories – are we telling in a digital history world, and which are being pushed out? What is the (digital) future for public history? Does an AI want to take your job? Will human historians one day be replaced by machines?
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
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Thursday 12 September
Time Event 9:00-9:30am Registration 10:00-11:00am Welcome and Keynote Address: Mapping divides? Connecting public histories through digital cartographies' by Prof. Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast) 11:00-12:30pm Storytelling
12:30-1:30pm Lunch / Special Collections Tour
1:30-3:00pm Mapping
3:00-3:30pm Tea
3:30-5:00pm Collections
5:00-6:00pm Keith Jeffery Wine Reception
6:00-7:30pm Keith Jeffery Lecture: 'Digital Chaos' by Prof. Julia Laite (Birkbeck)
- Friday 13 September
Time Event 10:00-11:30am Digital History in Public
12:00-1:30pm Gaming
1:30-2:30pm Lunch
2:30-3:30pm Poster Session
3:30-4:30pm Lecture: 'Generative AI as a Social Collaboration Tool: An Investigation through Interface Theory' by Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University)
5:00-6:30pm Exploring Difficult Histories through Video Games
- Detailed Programme
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