Join us for the launch of the GLOBALISE portal, which makes roughly five million pages of Dutch East India Company archives far more accessible than they presently are. We use this moment to ask how GLOBALISE can change the social lives of the colonial archive, as communities, artists, and historians worldwide use it to reimagine local and shared histories. Next to the presentation of the GLOBALISE platform, an international panel will dive into this topic, exploring the ethics of unlocking colonial archives and building public infrastructures for them. A second panel with local artists and community organisers will discuss what unveiling these archives means for them. Together, the panels consider how digitised access through GLOBALISE can enable new narratives, including community oral histories, while also exposing sensitive and painful colonial pasts and histories absent from cultural memory.
Now that GLOBALISE puts these sources within reach, how can it fuel history writing and public engagement, and what are the opportunities and responsibilities in working with these digitised colonial archives?
