24 January 2025
Symposium: Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructure
This symposium is organised by the Huygens Institute and the International Institute of Social History together with the Radboud Institute for Culture & History. It aims to answer the question: How can digital infrastructures for colonial archives support a better understanding of historical and contemporary issues? This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with digitized colonial records.
Admission is free. We do ask you to register.
The program will include sessions on:
- Colonial archives, worldwide relevance and the potential of digital unlocking
- Text recognition, and then what? Towards meaningful infrastructures for complex archives
- Biases in the archive as challenge and source
- Can we reach new audiences? Ways forward for digital infrastructures and colonial archives
Lunch is not included. There will be a break between 12.00 and 13.00 to provide the opportunity to have lunch.
More information can be found here.