Lital Henig, born 1988, is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a master’s degree in Communication and Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Communication and Journalism, both from the Hebrew University. Her master thesis focused on representations of the Jewish Sonderkommando in cinema 1985–2015, and the spectatorial modes evident in those films, and was supervised by Prof. Raya Morag. Her PhD thesis is entitled “Composite Memory: Memory Work of the Holocaust in the Digital Age”, and is supervised by Prof. Amit Pinchevski and Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann. Lital Henig’s areas of interest include Holocaust studies, visual arts, culture studies, film studies, witnessing and testimonials, and trauma studies. She currently serves as a research assistant in the Hebrew University’s research team of the VHH project.
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Digital Visual History: Historiographic Curation Using Digital TechnologiesTobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Noga Stiassny, Lital Henig: Digital Visual History: Historiographic Curation Using Digital Technologies, in: Rethinking History, vol. 27, no. 2 (March 2023), 159–186. |
A Visual History of the Holocaust: Project OverviewNoga Stiassny, Lital Henig: Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age (Project Overview in Hebrew), in: Slil – Online Journal for History, Film and Television, vol. 15 (Winter 2022). |
Participation in Public Deliverables
Participation in Events
Kick-off MeetingMeeting Wednesday, 27.02.2019, 09:15 to Friday, 01.03.2019, 20:00 |
Taxonomy of RelationsWorkshop Monday, 19.08.2019, 13:30 to Tuesday, 20.08.2019, 17:00 |
VocabulariesWorkshop Thursday, 21.11.2019, 13:45 to Friday, 22.11.2019, 17:00 |
Connecting the Fragments @Engaging the Past: Visual History of the Holocaust in the Digital AgePresentation Thursday, 16.01.2020, 10:00 |
CitaviWorkshop Thursday, 13.02.2020, 13:15 to Friday, 14.02.2020, 17:30 |
Consortium MeetingMeeting Tuesday, 23.02.2021, 15:00 to Wednesday, 24.02.2021, 19:00 |
Migrating Images in the Digital Age: Multimodal Curation of Visual Records from the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps in Digital InfrastructuresPresentation Thursday, 06.05.2021, 14:00 to Thursday, 06.05.2021, 15:00 |
Migrating Images of the Holocaust in the Digital Age: New Methods of Digital CurationPresentation Thursday, 03.06.2021, 15:00 to Thursday, 03.06.2021, 17:30 |
Relational MemoriesPanel Friday, 09.07.2021, 10:00 to Friday, 09.07.2021, 12:00 |
The Visual Walkthrough Method: A Tool for the Analysis of Playful Images in the Digital AgePresentation Thursday, 07.10.2021, 15:45 to Thursday, 07.10.2021, 16:30 |
Using Images to Say the UnspeakablePresentation Thursday, 21.10.2021, 17:00 to Thursday, 21.10.2021, 17:20 |
Relational Anne: The Remediation and Participatory Adaptation of Holocaust Diaries in Digital MediaPresentation Tuesday, 24.05.2022, 14:45 to Tuesday, 24.05.2022, 15:15 |
The Visual Walkthrough Method: A Tool for the Analysis of Playful Images in Interactive Digital Media EcologiesPresentation Saturday, 28.05.2022, 11:00 to Saturday, 28.05.2022, 12:15 |
Migrating Images and Image Migration: How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the HolocaustConference Monday, 12.09.2022, 18:00 to Wednesday, 14.09.2022, 20:00 |
Participation in Media Reports
In-between persecution and pandemic: Israel is re-examining the memory of the Holocaust in the times of Corona (in Hebrew)KAN (online), Monday, 20.04.2020 |
Eva StoriesThe SIP – A smart podcast, Thursday, 16.07.2020 |
