On Monday 18th November 2024, the Landecker Digital Memory Lab officially launched to an audience of c. 200 people joining us both in-person at the Imperial War Museum, London and from across the globe via our live-stream. The event saw our Lab Director Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden introduce our plans for the next five years, highlighting how our work has become more imperative since the amplification of antisemitism and Holocaust distortion, denial and contestation since October 7th 2023. You can read more about who we are, our aims, and our outputs across this website. Professor Richardson-Walden was joined by a series of special guests. Lena Altman, Co-CEO of our funder and key project partner, the Alfred Landecker Foundation, who provided the welcome address. Then after the main presentation, Lord Pickles (UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and President of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) addressed the bigger picture in which the Lab's work sits. He was followed by Professor Sasha Roseneil (Vice-Chancellor) and Professor Cornel Sandvoss (Executive Dean of the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities) both offering the view from the University of Sussex, addressing how the Lab's work complements the university's wider values and emphasising the importance of [...]

What is it? Our inaugural ‘expo’ seeks to bring together Holocaust heritage and education experts, policymakers, academics, and creative and tech professionals to share practice and research, learn more about digital Holocaust memory pasts and present, and to connect and begin to design digital Holocaust memory futures! This is not your usual ‘academic conference’, rather we hope to offer lots of opportunities for hands-on play, experimentation and learning; networking; and showcasing excellent practice as well as research.   Where is it? University of Sussex, UK Situated in a valley of the beautiful South Downs National Park and only a short bus or train ride from the Brighton seaside.   When is it? 24th-26th June 2025   Call for Contributions  Holocaust memory as a cultural phenomenon is not solely shaped by the actual, cognitive remembering of those who lived through this traumatic past. For commemoration to persist long into the future, the significance of the past must be taken on bodily, cognitively, and culturally by those who did not experience it. Co-mmemoration is a fluid, ongoing, creative, collaborative process shaped by an increasing number of actants – human and non-human. Whilst the voice of survivors will no doubt continue to be an essential element of Holocaust education, the memory-makers of tomorrow (and [...]

Dr Victoria Grace Walden and Dr Kate Marrison of the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Sussex will be joined by an expanded team from the summer of 2024 to launch a new 5-year project funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation. Awarded 4,100,000 Euros, Dr Walden will lead the Landecker Digital Memory Lab: Connective Holocaust Commemoration which is dedicated to enhancing the sustainability of digital Holocaust memory. The lab will sit across both the Weidenfeld Institute and the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, benefiting from the rich research culture of both. Alongside the production of original research, the Lab’s activities will include: the development of a ‘living database-archive’, which will preserve recordings of digital projects dedicated to Holocaust memory complemented by interviews with professionals involved in their development and use at Holocaust sites (from programmers and designers to curators and educators). The ‘living database’ aims to help Holocaust memory and education institutions across the world learn from historical digital practice by providing the first database and archive of digital works in this field. a new online publishing space dedicated to digital Holocaust memory with an international editorial board designed to promote interdisciplinary and inter-sector dialogues across digital spaces. a [...]