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IN_CONTEXT at Dahlem Humanities Center (Freien Universität Berlin)
On April 24, 2024, Dr. Lars Müller and Dr. John Woitkowitz presented the project IN_CONTEXT: Colonial Histories and Digital Humanities in the series “Forschung im Dialog” at the Dahlem Humanities Center at the Freie Universität Berlin. Along with researchers from a range of disciplines they discussed questions surrounding the digitization of historical sources from colonial […]
Report on conference “Colonial Contexts in Libraries” published
The report on the conference “Colonial Contexts in Libraries” held at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin from November 6-7, 2023 has been published in the journal Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie. Christiane Elster writes: The … workshop succeeded in initiating a long-overdue debate within the German-speaking library community on how to deal with the colonial heritage. […]
Larissa Schmid interviewed by SPK-Magazin
IN_CONTEXT project lead Larissa Schmid gave an interview to the magazine of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation about the plans and activities related to the topic of colonial contexts in libraries. Schmid discussed the challenges inherent in digitizing collections from colonial contexts, the role of communities from the global south as well as the successfull […]