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Digital World, Images, and History: Memories in Tension

Walter Benjamin Colloquium 2024

The EUROM collaborates with the 2024 edition of the Walter Benjamin Colloquium, that will be held in Portbou under the title “Digital World, Images, and History: Memories in Tension”. The sessions will review the changes brought about by the emergence of digital tools in the study of the past and the ways we imagine it. Echoing Benjamin main concerns, the event aims to discuss how digital tools shape society’s relationship with the recent past, often marked by controversies and memory disputes.

One key question at the colloquium is how memory policies will be shaped from now on. In the digital age, history and memory are also contested areas, as the digital realm influences collective thinking and becomes a battleground for cultural and geopolitical power. How will we learn history and manage the endless stream of images influenced by AI’s reproducibility and creativity? Can the digital world’s communication potential be used to build a critical, rigorous public history that supports a diverse democratic memory? These questions will be explored at this international colloquium inspired by Walter Benjamin.

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Parallel activities include a conversation between Francesc Abad and Cristina Masanés, theater, music, and a walking route from Banyuls to Portbou with Nau Coclea.

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When

September 20-22, 2024
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