Michael Haley Goldman is Director of the Future Projects at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Future Projects is a small innovation team designed to research, prototype, and explore emerging technologies that transform Holocaust memorialization and education. Mr. Haley Goldman has served as the Museum’s Director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors and as the Director of Global Classroom and Evaluation.  Mr. Haley Goldman has a Masters in Education from Columbia University Teachers College. 

Abstract of 'Re-Imagining the Team: Holocaust Research and Education in a Distributed Age'

Dr. Mariella Bastian is a journalism scholar whose research is closely intertwined with cultural memory studies. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD and Masters degree in journalism studies from TU Dortmund University (Germany). Her research interests center around media ethics and accountability, news personalization, democracy & journalism, the role of the media in dictatorships, and the algorithmic turn in cultural remembrance.

Dr. Mykola Makhortykh defended his PhD in 2017 at the University of Amsterdam. In his dissertation, he examined interactions between digital media and WWII remembrance in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School for Communication Research, where his research is focused on the algorithmic personalization of news media. In his recent work, he has also explored interactions between historical memory and propaganda during the Ukraine crisis and the use of digital platforms for Holocaust remembrance. 

Abstract of 'The neutral point of view and the black hole of Auschwitz: Crowdsourcing the history of the Holocaust on Wikipedia'

Christiane Weber, MA, studied History, German Literature and British and American Literature and Culture at the University of Giessen/Germany. After ten years at the “Arbeitsstelle Holocaustliteratur” – a research unit dedicated to holocaust literature – she started working for the Arolsen Archives (formerly: International Tracing Service) in 2017. There she develops in the Research and Education Department a digital tool which describes the historical background of holocaust related documents (see https://eguide.its-arolsen.org).

Abstract of 'The Arolsen Archives e-Guide: turning users into active explorers of Holocaust-related documents'

Leah Owen is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, studying genocidal dehumanisation and mobilisation. Her other research interests include the study and use of archives, as well as post-conflict criminal justice initiatives.

Dan Plesch is the author of 'Human Rights After Hitler'. He is Director and Senior Associate Professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS University of London; and Scholar in Residence at the School of International Service at American University. 

Abstract of 'Geographies of accountability: the United Nations War Crimes Commission archives and wartime complementarity'

Dr Gilly Carr is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Director in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education; she is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Archaeology at St Catharine’s College. Recent publications include Victims of Nazism in the Channel Islands: A legitimate heritage? (Bloomsbury Academic 2019), Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation 1940-45 (co-authored, Bloomsbury Academic 2015), and Legacies of Occupation: Heritage, Memory and Archaeology in the Channel Islands (Springer 2014). She has been a member of the UK delegation of IHRA since 2016.

Abstract of 'Combatting collective amnesia: digital heritage and the Channel Islands'