Call for Papers: Digital Humanities in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Holocaust and Genocide Studies Special Issue
Co-Editors: Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, Paul Jaskot, and Anne Kelly Knowles
This special issue seeks to show how digital approaches are inflecting and influencing Holocaust and genocide studies. It aims to span the range of disciplines using digital methods and sources, broadly understood. The special issue will bring together scholarship that addresses the impact of digital methods and content on:
- Historical analysis
- Cultural representations
- Memory and memorialization
- Archival sources and collections
- Pedagogy
We welcome research articles that draw on Digital Humanities approaches to uncover new understandings of the Holocaust and genocide, and also engage with the concept of ‘digital memory’ to examine representation and response in everything from social media through virtual reality experiences. Other essays may be more conceptual or historiographical, offering reflections on the limitations and possibilities of digital methods and digital resources on the field, from archive practices through database design. While the special issue will focus on research, we also welcome articles and essays that reflect on Holocaust and genocide studies pedagogy after the digital turn.
We invite proposals for full research articles (c. 7,000-12,000 words) and shorter discursive or historiographical essays (c. 4,000-5,000 words) that: