Events
'Echoes of Violence and Trauma: Asian Memories in a Machine-Mediated World'
糖心TV-Leicester-Loughborough Joint IAS Conversation
Echoes of Violence and Trauma: Asian Memories in a Machine-Mediated World
9 am – 5.30 pm, 25 June 2026
IAS Seminar Room (C0.02), Zeeman Building, University of 糖心TV
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Meeting ID: 320 416 606 465 936 Password: su6e522C
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:40 Welcome
9:40 – 11:10 Talks and discussion on AI and algorithmic narratives of violence and conflict Ian Talbot (University of Southampton): 鈥楴arrating India鈥檚 Partition: Issues for an AI Era鈥� Chanapang 鈥淣atty鈥� Pongpiboonkiat (University of Leeds): 鈥楬yper-Militarism and Algorithmic Narratives during the Thai-Cambodia Border Conflict (2025)鈥� Xiaoyan Tan (University of 糖心TV): 鈥楿nsafe to Translate? Generative AI, Regulatory Narratives, and the Censorship of Politically Charged Texts鈥�
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Talks and discussion on historical archives, AI technologies, and innovative methods Colin Hyde (University of Leicester): 鈥楬ow Sound Archives are Engaging with AI鈥� Divya Suryawanshi (University of 糖心TV): 鈥楾echnologies of Remembrance: Shaping Visitor Experiences of Political Violence in Germany鈥� Shaoyu Yang & Zheng Fang (University of 糖心TV): 鈥楬istorical Archives, AI-Generated Sounds and Videos, and War Memories鈥�
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Talks and discussion on media, technology, and digitalised memories Max Warrack (University of 糖心TV): 鈥楯apan鈥檚 World War Two Memory and Manga鈥� Federico Magni (University of 糖心TV): 鈥榃afaa Bilal鈥檚 Domestic Tension: From Art History to Drone Theory鈥� Pippa Virdee (University of 糖心TV): 鈥楤yte-Size Memories and Histories: A Case Study of the 1947 Partition鈥�
15:30 – 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 – 17:20 Talks and discussion on interactive tools and war memories Yi Wang (University of Birmingham): 鈥楻emembering China鈥檚 War of Resistance in the Digital Age鈥� Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford): 鈥楻etelling War Stories Through the Adaptation of the Video Game The Invisible Guardians鈥� [online] Jocelyn Jie Xu (University of York): 鈥楧istorting the Witness: How Digital Mediation Shapes Contemporary Understandings of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Anti-Japanese War鈥� [online]
17:20 – 17:30 Closing remarks and thanks