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In her new multimedia project Restless Archive, Simone Gigliotti curates a digital history of the historical migrations and transnational routes of Jewish refugees and postwar displaced persons. She has amassed what she terms a "restless archive" of photographic, cinematographic and visual material that was created and re-used between 1933 and 1949, with several newsreels relating to Shanghai as a port city and transit hub for Jewish refugees. She has also worked with GIS and mapping technology to recreate the voyage routes these refugees took from Europe to Asia. Her presentation will integrate videos, posters, and testimonies from the 1930s and 1940s.
Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced (Indiana University Press, 2023) is available to read for free here.
Speakers
Simone
Gigliotti
Reader in Holocaust Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/simone-gigliottiSimone Gigliotti is Reader in Holocaust Studies in the Department of History. At Royal Holloway, she is affiliated with the Holocaust Research Institute (as Deputy Director), the Centre for the GeoHumanities, the Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric, and the Conflict and Violence Terrorism Research Centre. She is also Director of Postgraduate Taught Education in the School of Humanities.
Her research of late addresses the Holocaust's European and global transport histories (trains, ships, and foot movements) from organisational, maritime, environmental and multi-witness perspectives.
Her most recent publication is the digital, open access project, Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced (Indiana University Press, 2023). Forthcoming publications include a study of networks of humanitarian relief provision for Jewish refugees in the Philippines during the 1930s and 1940s, and a special issue of the Journal of Transport History on the theme of "conflict transport".
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