Sema Colpan

Sema Colpan, born 1981, is a historian and the Research Coordinator at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH). From 2016 to 2019 she served as Head of Public Relation and Communication at the Austrian State Archives. From 2010 to 2016 she worked as a researcher in different projects: “Metropolis in Transition – Budapest 1916–1921” (2014–2016, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society); “Sports Officials in Interwar Vienna: Performative Identities and Jewishness between ‘Assimilation’ and Zionism, Acceptance and Antisemitism” (2014–2016, University of Applied Arts Vienna); “Sponsored Films and the Culture of Modernization” (2010–2013, funded by a DOC-team scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences). In 2015, she co-organized the International Summer School “Vienna Summer School on Digital Humanities” together with Julia Neidhardt. She has co-edited a book on culture as a tool of Austro-Hungarian propaganda during World War I and a special issue on sponsored films. She has written on (sponsored) film/history, theories of modernization and Jewish sports history.

Participation in Public Deliverables

D1.5 EU Commission Policy Brief: Fostering Media-Literate Cultural Memory Contributor

D1.6 EU Commission Policy Brief: ECCCH – No Cultural Heritage Cloud Without Audiovisual Media Contributor

D2.1 Advanced Digitization Tool Kit Author

D2.3 Digitized Collection of Text Documents related to Footage and Films Contributor

D2.4 Database of Films, Artworks, and other Visual Culture Products Contributor

D2.5 Report on Digital Curation of Popular Culture Content Contributor

D2.6 Expert Videos on Popular Culture Content Contributor

D2.7 Advanced Digitization of Popular Culture Content Contributor

D3.4 Framework for Tool Kits, Best Practice Models and Future Network Activities Contributor

D3.5 Concept: VHH i-docs Contributor

D4.4 Translation of Selected Russian Text Documents Contributor

D8.2 Project Design and Identity Handbook [revised edition] Contributor

Participation in Events

Kick-off Meeting Meeting Wednesday, 27.02.2019, 09:15 to Friday, 01.03.2019, 20:00

Curation of Engagement Levels Workshop Monday, 20.05.2019, 09:00 to Tuesday, 21.05.2019, 17:00

Archival Research Mini-Workshop Wednesday, 12.06.2019, 13:30 to Thursday, 13.06.2019, 18:00

Taxonomy of Relations Workshop Monday, 19.08.2019, 13:30 to Tuesday, 20.08.2019, 17:00

Text Analysis Mini-Workshop Tuesday, 12.01.2021, 09:30 to Tuesday, 12.01.2021, 13:00

Exploitation Roadmap Mini-Workshop Tuesday, 02.02.2021, 09:30 to Tuesday, 02.02.2021, 13:00

The VHH Horizon 2020 Innovation Action Presentation Wednesday, 10.02.2021, 10:00 to Wednesday, 10.02.2021, 12:00

Consortium Meeting Meeting Tuesday, 23.02.2021, 15:00 to Wednesday, 24.02.2021, 19:00

Reconsidering Representations of the Holocaust – Digital Curation, Evidence and Remembrance Through the VHH Project Roundtable Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 16:00 to Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 17:30

Digitales Kuratieren Presentation Thursday, 21.04.2022, 10:30 to Thursday, 21.04.2022, 12:00

Migrating Images and Image Migration: How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the Holocaust Conference Monday, 12.09.2022, 18:00 to Wednesday, 14.09.2022, 20:00

Von Bildern extremer Gewalt und vom digitalen Kuratieren Presentation Friday, 27.01.2023, 18:00 to Friday, 27.01.2023, 20:00

Holocaust Remembrance Day – Digitales Kuratieren Presentation Friday, 27.01.2023, 09:00 to Friday, 27.01.2023, 12:30

Kinodokumenty o zverstvach nemecko-fašistskich zachvatčikov (Die von den deutsch-faschistischen Invasoren verübten Gräueltaten) Screening Sunday, 29.01.2023, 18:00

Die visuelle Geschichte des Holocaust: Zeitgeschichte mit digitalen Mitteln Panel Thursday, 11.04.2024, 14:00 to Thursday, 11.04.2024, 15:30

Participation in Videos

Runder Tisch Friday, 27.01.2023