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Lina Weisener
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digital | visual | memory practices
| focus on the Baltics and Ukraine
Working on - young amateur photographers as observers of Ukraine's changing cities |
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Vietnam was the first so-called “living room war,” watched on TV and seen through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured the war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. See the photos, 50 years after the war ended. nyti.ms/4iG1Kd0
April 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Interesting report just out from @itrustai.bsky.social "Report on the Survey “Digitization and Artificial Intelligence for Archives and Documentary Heritage Materials”. Organizations are at an early stage of uptake & risk analysis in employing AI when digitizing and processes need to be developed...
interparestrustai.org
April 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Incredible and haunting reporting by @catebrown.bsky.social, @osviz-jarrett.bsky.social, Catherine Belton, Anastacia Galouchka & others: “She took risks not for the sake of bravery or being recognized, but because she believed it was her duty" www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead
A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Ukrainian teenagers who live on Russian-occupied Ukrainian lands have secret book clubs to discuss Ukrainian books.They take great risks doing that as anything Ukrainian is prohibited. The teenagers can be taken away from parents,be interrogated or face other dire consequences
March 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A recording of the dMSA seminar in which Mykola Homanyuk and I presented our book is now available.
Thanks a lot to Violeta Davoliūtė for chairing, and to Katarzyna Anzorge, Ulla Savolainen, and Lana Đaković for organizing the session!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVpDP0xDCY0
dMSA February 2025 - Monuments and Territory - War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine
YouTube video by Memory Studies Association
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

International educational conference: "(Re)member. Is Memory Enough in the 21st Century?"

June 30 to July 2, 2025.

We invite experts to participate in a discussion on the significance of memory in shaping our moral responsibility.

Details: www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/ne...
March 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Ukrainische KollegInnen verbreiten jene Fotos aus Butscha und anderswo, die so schrecklich sind, dass sie sie bisher nicht gezeigt haben. Those are the days.
March 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The talk in Europe is “how to get a seat at the table.” Respectfully, that’s the wrong question. The right question is, “how can Europe build a new table.”
March 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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This is an interesting take on right's love of generative AI, but I think it's ultimately misleading. The main problem is that it compares AI slop to the work of artists. But the use of generative AI has little to do with art, and much more with stock photos and other already generic imagery
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“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
February 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Lovely. But can we please stop using "former Soviet republics" as a category? It has been 33 years.
In this list, explore the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers:
The Best of Books 2024
This year’s top picks from Foreign Affairs’ editors and reviewers.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 9, 2024 at 5:38 PM
A bit off topic but I'm enjoying this immensely! A wonderful example of studying an image in depth. Plus, it gives an insight into the practice, life and relationships of a 'difficult woman'.
December 11, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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My father was a photographer. He taught me how to look at the world and its images. I am grateful to Aeon and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for commissioning & sticking with this essay. 🙏

aeon.co/essays/how-s...

#WEugeneSmith #eugenesmith #minamata #imagesofhorror #photography #photographers
How should we look at images of horror and suffering? | Aeon Essays
W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them?
aeon.co
November 30, 2024 at 6:11 PM
November 21, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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Wie kommt der Krieg auf den Laufsteg? Die dänische Fotografin Pernille Sandberg thematisiert die große Kraft, die die Ukraine aus ihrer Kultur schöpft. Folge 24 unserer Serie „Bilder vom Krieg“. www.dekoder.org/de/article/u...
Bilder vom Krieg #25
Fotografische Perspektiven auf den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine: Pernille Sandberg / Quelle: dekoder
www.dekoder.org
November 19, 2024 at 9:44 AM
This one is especially interesting to me, but every piece in this issue I've read so far has left an impression. Two translations of Vasyl Stus poems or Yevhen Shybalov asking himself what makes a humanist kill, just to pick out two more contributions.

www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/art-fo...
Art for Justice: What Ukraine’s Artistic Heritage Teaches Us about Russian Imperialism
In the aftermath of the ground-breaking exhibition of modernism from Ukraine ‘In the Eye of the Storm’, its co-curator Katia Denysova reflects on justice in the realm of art history. Erased by Russian...
www.londonukrainianreview.org
November 17, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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A new wonderful collection of historical feminist texts from East and Central Europe (including the Baltic countries).

Edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz

ceupress.com/book/texts-a...
Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights
ceupress.com
November 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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🩹 Community care is vital—so how do we preserve the support networks built online? Explore why digital preservation matters for these fragile, often-overlooked forms of cultural & social heritage in our latest #VanishingCulture essay.

🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/12/v...
November 12, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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CFP: The social experiences of urban space in socialist cities of Eastern Europe

http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145260

Gent, 30.01.2025-31.01.2025, Brigitte Le Normand, Maastricht University; Pieter Troch, Ghent University, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2024
The social experiences of urban space in socialist cities of Eastern Europe
www.hsozkult.de
July 8, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Zwei Tage nach dem Terroranschlag in der Konzerthalle Crocus City Hall bei Moskau, präsentieren Behörden vier der mutmaßlichen Täter – auf ihren Körpern Spuren brutaler Gewalt und Folter. Der Politologie Kirill Rogow schreibt über die zur Schau gestellte Brutalität: www.dekoder.org/de/article/c...
March 25, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Call for Applications: Small Grants Scheme for heritage-related projects led by Civil Society in EU neighbouring countries. Deadline: 31 March
European Heritage Hub Launches Small Grants Scheme for Heritage Projects
The European Heritage Hub project has launched a Small Grants Scheme to support projects led by civil society which protect cultural heritage in 11 EU neighbouring countries.
www.europeanheritagehub.eu
March 23, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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"The artworks, representing individual and collective war experiences, demonstrate the shocking, changing reality of millions of Ukrainians and help to share emotional experiences of the war with others." ZOiS Spotlight by Alina Mozolevska (UNET@ZOiS): www.zois-berlin.de/en/publicati...
Dealing with the Russian Aggression against Ukraine through Art
Spotlight on Ukraine 4 | Alina Mozolevska
www.zois-berlin.de
February 22, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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Auch wir sind beim Cafe Kyiv dabei! Gemeinsam mit der @dgoberlin.bsky.social organisieren wir die Diskussion "War Trauma: The Effects on Ukrainian Society and Science".

www.zois-berlin.de/en/events/wa...

Programm: cafekyiv.kas.de
February 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM