Topic: Art history
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Public History and Arts, interview series
Learn morePublic History and Arts is an interview series, conducted by Dr. Myriam Dalal and Nada El Shabrawy.
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Public History and Arts: How to Approach “Difficult” Histories
Learn moreRecording of the Research seminar with Myriam Dalal (15 January 2024).
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Mariupol. A Hundred Nights – A Story Not Yet Forgotten
Learn moreThoughts about the animation film "Mariupol. A Hundred Nights" by Sofiia Melnyk and Andrii Palatnyi portraying a young girl who loses her family and home in Mariupol following the Russian invasion in 2022.
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Forced labor at GDR prison – animated in award-winning “Kaputt” animation
Learn moreHow does one visualize the tragic past of the Hoheneck imprisoned forced laborers, a reality that remained unseen for years? Three German directors, Volker Schlecht, Max Mönch, and Alexander Lahl, took on this daunting task by conducting extensive oral history research and transforming their findings into the award-winning animation “Kaputt.”
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Video games as a real object of study: Some lessons from the Gamescom Congress 2017
Learn moreCan video games be a serious research topic or are they only entertainment products? At the Gamescom Congress in Cologne, a series of talks and panel discussions were dedicated to video games from many different perspectives. In this blogpost, I will discuss some of them illustrating that video games can and should be taken seriously.
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Rediscovering Pompeii digitally
Learn morePompeian wall paintings as a source of inspiration for neo-classical domestic interior decorations; a digital approach to art history.