Gil Pasternak: Wins European Commission Grant

Gil Pasternak Wins European Commission Grant of Over £500,000 for Digital Heritage Research Project

Gil Pasternak will lead the international DigiCONFLICT Research Consortium consisting of a team of researchers from the UK, Poland and Sweden. The grant was awarded by the European Commission’s Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage. Scheduled to run between 2018 and 2021, it is designed to explore how national, social and ethnic groups around the world have used digital heritage to define and preserve their cultural assets and sense of morality. The three partner teams from the UK, Poland and Sweden will focus on photography, multimedia museums, and oral history, respectively, as the most commonly used media employed in digital heritage. Pasternak’s main research trajectory within the broader project will focus on photographic digital heritage in Israel, where he will investigate the ways in which official institutions and grassroots communities in the country have used digital heritage to claim cultural spaces and the right to cultural representation.