Bias, Injustice, and Repairs in the Digital Heritage Landscape

Join us on Friday, October 17, 2025 starting at 9:30 for the keynote lecture by Chiara Bonacchi at the international conference Digital Art History – Methods, Practices, Epistemologies V. Critical Approaches to Sources in (Digital) Art History.

Bonacchi has pioneered big data methodologies to examine how heritage is weaponized in contemporary political discourse. She authored the book Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism Through Big Data (2022).

In "Bias, Injustice, and Repairs in the Digital Heritage Landscape," Bonacchi confronts urgent questions about power imbalances embedded in crowdsourcing, AI, and social media environments. As PI of the Leverhulme project “Weaponised Pasts: The evolution of heritage-based hostility on social media”, she reveals how digital platforms enable the manipulation of historical narratives to construct exclusive identities. Her work charts pathways toward repair and a more just digital heritage future.

To follow the lecture in person or online, please register via Google Forms until 14 October 2025:

More about the conference programme here.