Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Web)

Time: 26.-27.09.2023
Venue: Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage der ÖAW
Proposals by: 26.05.2023 (PDF)

Digital methods, technologies, and formats have increasingly gained traction in the study of life narratives and biographical data, as well as in the presentation of historical lives. Auto/biographical research and practice are aided significantly by biographical research databases and platforms, biographical online dictionaries, digital editions of historical life documents as well as community- and institutionally driven online archives and web-based collaborative Wiki formats, which are characterised by accessibility, searchability, and user-orientedness. In addition, they often encourage interactive participation, and generally open up new quantitative and qualitative pathways / approaches to biographical research.
Notwithstanding their vast potential, digital tools and platforms and their uses often reveal a tension between research, on the one hand, and the communication of this research to a broader public and multiple audience groups, on the other. We are keen on stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue between life writing theories and digital methodologies.
This two-day conference-plus-workshop brings together scholars and practitioners from different disciplines, communities, and career stages to explore the possibilities, uses, and challenges of digital methods and technologies for auto/biographical research and practice. The organizers are particularly interested in the following questions: Read more … (PDF)

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