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From Built Heritage to Memory Mapping

Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop, seminar, course or other meeting

Description

DIGHT-Net Seminar Report: “Personal Archives: From Personal Collections to Digital Archives”

On 4 and 5 of June, the University of Amsterdam hosted a DIGHT-Net Seminar titled “Personal Archives: From Personal Collections to Digital Archives.” The seminar brought together project members from the University of Bologna and Tallinn University. The two-day event combined various site visits and presentations on archives, including personal collections, institutional archives, and digital archives. The seminar aimed to examine how personal and institutional collections and heritage practices are dealt with in the Netherlands. This focus highlighted the importance of viewing archives as commemorative spaces with their subjectivity and the power of historical mediation.
Period5 Jun 2026
Held atUniversiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Archives
  • Memory mapping
  • Memorial value
  • Memorial heritage