Internet Archive Europe Program Manager Beatrice Murch will speak at the Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Saving Cultural Data in Times of Crisis webinar on 31 March 2026, hosted by the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Event Details
📅 Date: Tuesday, 31 March 2026
⏰ Time: 16:00-17:30 GMT / 17.00-18.30 CEST
📍 Location: Online
🎟 Register: sas.ac.uk
This session is the third in the Research Hub’s flagship seminar series, The Fragile Record: Incompleteness and Loss in Digital Cultural Heritage Collections. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to examine what happens when cultural heritage collections, archives, and digital infrastructures come under threat, whether from armed conflict, political instability, climate emergencies, cyberattacks, or the slower erosion of technological obsolescence.
The question posed by the session is not abstract. Archives and cultural datasets are increasingly emerging as targets for attack, exploitation, and control. Institutions long conceived as spaces of permanence and security are having to reckon with a different reality. The session will assess both institutional preparedness and community-led responses, and ask what forms of stewardship and crisis management are needed to build genuine resilience. Beatrice will be joined by Kalle Westerling, Fattori McKenna, Michael Weinberg, Pakhee Kumar, and Quinn Daedal, hosted by Anna-Maria Sichani and Kaspar Beelen.
This conversation sits at the heart of what Internet Archive Europe works toward every day. Preservation is not a passive act. It requires political will, sustained resources, and the right legal frameworks, which is why we continue to call on individuals, institutions, and organisations across Europe to sign the Our Future Memory Statement. The Statement is a public commitment to protecting our collective digital memory, ensuring continued access, and building the legal infrastructure our archives need to meet the crises we now face. If your organisation has not yet signed, encourage them to do so.
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