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Annual Conference

September 12-13, 2024

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? 

This two-day conference in Belfast in September 2024 welcomes proposals from researchers, students, practitioners and creatives about digital public history.

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

  • 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

    You can find a more detailed programme here.

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