The Department of History, the TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt research forum, the Institute for Public History, and the History and Cultural Sciences Teaching Methods cordially invite you to the inaugural lecture of the Chair of Historical Culture in Transition, an endowed chair established by EuroClio, the European Association of History Teachers. In the opening lecture, chair holder Prof. dr. Robbert-Jan Adriaansen will address the impact of digitalization on our engagement with the past. The central question is how digital forms of communication influence the way we represent and understand history.
- Professor
- Date
- Wednesday 11 Dec 2024, 19:30 - 21:00
- Type
- Inaugural lecture
- Spoken Language
- Dutch
- Location
Paviljoen Vandenhove, Rozier 1, Gent
Programme
- Welcome by Professors Gita Deneckere (Dean Faculty of Arts and Philosophy), Jeroen Deploige (Department Chair History), Berber Bevernage and Koen Aerts (chair coordinators)
- Lecture by Prof. Adriaansen, ‘Digitalisering en historische cultuur: Internet memes als multimodale historische analogieën’
- Commentary by Prof. Christophe Verbruggen + Discussion
- Reception (Faculty Library Atrium, Rozier 44)
Note: the lecture will be in Dutch!
Please register by December 3 if you wish to attend.
About the Lecture
The digitalization of our communication has a major impact on contemporary historical culture, society's engagement with the past. New media and communication platforms not only change how we share and consume information about the past but also how we interpret it and give it meaning. Social media enable new forms of historical representation, for example through the combined use of image, text, and audio, but also impose limitations and thus guide forms of historical thinking.
In this opening lecture of the EuroClio Chair Historical Culture in Transition, Prof. dr. Robbert-Jan Adriaansen specifically addresses the role of internet memes as a new form of historical representation. Using innovative digital methods for image-text analysis, he demonstrates how memes on the popular platform Reddit facilitate analogical reasoning and the role of meme templates in this process. He also discusses the educational possibilities and limitations of using 'multimodal historical analogies' that combine text and image.
About the Chair
The Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University is an endowed chair established by EuroClio, the European Association of History Teachers. The chair focuses on studying the changing engagement with the past in contemporary society and investigates how globalization, politicization, and digitalization influence historical interpretative frameworks, identities, and historical conceptions. The aim is to gain insight into the complexity of modern historical culture and the role of history in education and society.
The chair will be filled one day per week by Prof. dr. Robbert-Jan Adriaansen. Adriaansen is also affiliated with the History Department at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he is executive director of the Center for Historical Culture and is co-lead of the research cluster Heritage & Identity at the Erasmus Research Institute for Media, Culture, History & Society.
