Friday, October 28, 2022

14:00 Arrival

14:30–15:30
Immersion inside and outside of VR: digital and analogue practices
Chair: Steffi de Jong

Philipp Bojahr (Media Studies): Immersive views: Visual techniques of immediacy and remediation in the context of cultural education

Juliane Tomann (Public History): Embodying the past: Reenactment as immersive social practice

16:00–17:30
VR as a medium: What are the peculiarities of virtual historical reality?
Chair: Jörg Skribeleit

Rūta Kazlauskaitė (Memory Studies/Media Studies): "Memory Prosthesis: Virtual Reality as a Perspective- and Emotion-Training Device"

Silke Arnold-De Simine (Memory, Media and Cultural Studies): Distributed Remembering through Extended Reality Formats

18:00–19:00
Keynote: Wulf Kansteiner (History / Memory Studies): Immersion, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Historiography

Saturday, October 29, 2022

10:00–11:30
Aesthetics: How is or should history be represented in VR?
Chair: Wulf Kansteiner

Nora Probst (Theater Studies): Affordances of interaction: VR and approaches of theater historiography

Steffi de Jong (History): Between Hyperrealism and “Bilderverbot”. The Aesthetics of Representing the Holocaust in VR

11:45–13:15
The user’s perspective: What impact does VR have?
Chair: Rūta Kazlauskaitė

Gary Mills (History Education): Opportunities and challenges of using VR in education settings. Perspectives from Teachers, educators and students.

Tabea Widmann (Game Studies): The Game is the Memory. Prosthetic Witnessing in digital games concerning the Holocaust

14:15–16:45
How can VR be used to advance historical research?
Chair: Gary Mills

Sebastian Hageneuer (Archeology): The role of VR in archeology

Sytse Wierenga (Eodyne Systems S.L.): A brief overview of VR in historical research practices

17:00–18:00
Wrap up session

18:00–19:00
Evening presentation (online event)
Tusia Dabrowska (Art & Media Studies)
My Imaginary Friends: On Grief in VR/AR