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“We Are Our History” at the Stabi Berlin
From May 14-16, 2024, the project IN_CONTEXT welcomed our colleagues Jasdeep Singh and Devika of “We Are Our History” (WAOH) at the Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford) to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB). The project WAOH explores the Bodleian Libraries’ connections with the British history of imperialism and slavery. In addition to the collections of […]
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. […]