MACCH affiliated researcher Tim van der Heijden (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) co-organised the conference ‘Changing Platforms of Memory Practices’ and looks back at this event:

On 10-12 September 2015, the research team of ‘Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies’ organized an international conference on the complex relationship between media technologies, user generations, and mediated memory practices. The conference, which took place at the historical building of the Van Swinderenhuys in Groningen, aimed to grasp the technical, social and cultural dimensions and changes in the use of technologies of memory, such as home movies, home videos, sound recording and digital media.

The members of the project team – Jo Wachelder, Tim van der Heijden (Maastricht University), Andreas Fickers (University of Luxembourg), Susan Aasman and Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen) – look back at a very successful event. The three-day long program reflected on new angles, concepts and methodologies related to the study of amateur audiovisual memory practices and offered contributions by scholars, curators, artists, and archivists hailing from all over the world.

See here for a detailed conference report, as published on the project’s weblog.