GastvorträgeProf. Mark Tebeau zu Gast in Hamburg

20. Oktober 2022, von Nils Steffen

Prof. Mark Tebeau von der Arizona State University (USA) ist auf Einladung des Arbeitsfeldes Public History und der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg zu Gast an der Universität Hamburg. Am 25. Oktober und 26. Oktober spricht er über zwei seiner renommierten Forschungsprojekte aus der Public History:

A Journal of A Plague Year: Crowdsourcing Curation and Metadata in Pandemic Archives

Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2022, 19.00 Uhr
Universität Hamburg, ESA Ost, Raum 221

Rapid-response digital archives have emerged as a standard way digital humanities teams document historical crises, such as the recent pandemic. Their strength lies in building connections to communities through collecting materials and in creating source materials that will critical to future generations of scholars. In documenting the pandemic (2020-22) A Journal of a Plague Year: An Archive of Covid-19 challenged the traditional approach to curating rapid-response archives seeking by assigning robust metadata to objects as they entered the archive. This archival metadata included curatorial tags, contributor tags, and in some cases community-assigned tags. This talk discusses that effort, including the strengths and limitations of crowd-based curation; it will include a meditation on how such efforts at crowd curation might enhance the accessibility of rapid response archives, especially archives of the pandemic.

Curating Landscape: Monuments & World War II Memory

Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2022, 19.00 Uhr
Gästehaus der Universität Hamburg, Vortragssaal

This talk explores how public historians are reimagining historians’ curatorial responsibilities by weaving together several threads of public history practice: interpreting landscape, exploring historical memory, and using digital tools to build curatorial communities. The talk will explore the possibilities of using place-based digital interpretive tools to engage publics in landscapes of historical memory—especially monuments. Can we interrogate controversial sites of memory (such as monuments) that have been rendered largely invisible by time? How can we do this through community-based processes that engage students (especially) but also publics? How might we create new interpretive contexts by interweaving stories about monuments and landscape across cultural and national boundaries? What are the possibilities and liabilities of international collaborations on such a project?

Who is Mark Tebeau?

Mark Tebeau is an Associate Professor of History and Senior Global Futures Scientist at Arizona State University. He directs the public history program with a research portfolio in digital history, oral history, the history of monuments, and urban environmental history. Most recently, Tebeau initiated the project A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of Covid-19, a crowdsourced digital archive of the pandemic curated by an international consortium of history students and professionals. He developed Curatescape and has recently initiated Global World War II Monuments, a place-based digital interpretive project developed collaboratively with students in ASU’s World War II Studies Program.  In Fall 2022, Tebeau serves as “public historian in residence” at the Center for Contemporary & Digital History at the University of Luxembourg.

Der Eintritt zu beiden Veranstaltungen ist kostenlos. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.