Online lecture – Digitalization of Cultural heritage as discursive practice: mapping the museums and citizens-led Initiatives in Graz and Novi Sad (DISCULTHER)

Join us on the second session of the “Critical heritage studies at Arqus: concepts, approaches and findings” online guest lecture series, titled “Digitalization of Cultural Heritage as Discursive Practice: Mapping the Museums and Citizens-led Initiatives in Graz and Novi Sad (DISCULTHER)”, with Duŝan Ristic (University of Graz). The online lecture will take place on 27 November at 18:00 CET.

Explore with Duŝan Ristic her digital workshop project DISCULTHER. This project examines how the process of digitalization of cultural heritage (DCH), identified on a discursive level, manifests in two kinds of settings: institutional (museums) and activist (citizens-led initiatives).

The main objective of the project is to investigate the plurality of discursive practices of DCH within mentioned settings, the innovativeness, discrepancies and tensions in these practices, as well as the capacity of DCH to make accessible, mobilize and critically engage citizens in opening the space for intercultural dialogue.

Moderated by Vicent Schober, from the Leipzig University ReCentGlobe, participants will explore the comparative dimension of DISCULTHE, which compares: 

• The institutional with non-institutional practices of DCH.
• The processes in two cities Novi Sad (Serbia) and Graz (Austria). 

This contemporary comparison appears with the aim of highlighting social and cultural experiences of the cities, based on the fact that one belongs to the member state of the European Union and one is in the process of Europeanisation. 

This lecture will highlight the interdisciplinary aspect of this research that transcends the boundaries in Social Sciences between Sociology, Heritage Studies, Digital Humanities and the foregrounds hitherto  neglected aspects of the process of digitalization of cultural heritage.

No registration is required!

About the speaker

Dušan Ristić is a sociologist and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions post-doctoral research fellow at the Institut Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung / Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz. He also holds an Associate Professorship at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

His fields of expertise are Sociology of knowledge and Digital sociology, and his current research intersects datafication, digital culture, heritage and discourses. He is also interested in the innovative ways of using digital methods and mixed-method approach in the humanities and social sciences.