DeCoGLAM

Category: DeCoGLAM events

  • Can Walls Become Gateways? Round Table ‘From Wall to Web’ on 18 October 2025 – registration is open!

    Can Walls Become Gateways? Round Table ‘From Wall to Web’ on 18 October 2025 – registration is open!

    October is the Black History Month and our project is part of two exciting events prepared in collaboration with The Scottish Museum of Empire, Slavery, Colonialism and Migration and the Glasgow Women’s Library

    Exhibition posterThe exhibition Re-membering the Lives and Work of BME Scottish Communities(1–31 October) will be hosted by Glasgow Women’s Library and is part of the Black History Month supported by the Glasgow City Council. You are welcome to explore the exhibition – it does not need a registration!

    And on 18 October 2025 we will host the round table From Wall to Web: How to Archive Black History & Belonging Events?

    Why this round table and why now?

    Throughout the recent years, Scotland hosted numerous exhibitions and other events dedicated to Black history, migration, communities and belonging. Information on these events, their key messages and their impact on the wider society has not been systematically collected and preserved. The Scottish Museum of Empire, Slavery, Colonialism and Migration is interested in exploring how the memory of such events will not be lost, and the ongoing initiatives of communities will continue their life in a digital archive.

    This round table will bring together a panel of practitioners, academics and citizens to discuss a wide range of questions: what to preserve? How? When? For whom? It focuses on exhibitions and other relevant events by and about Black and other ethnic/migrant? communities in Scotland, and the practical steps for creating digital archives that serve those communities first.

    We will explore:

    The Scottish Museum of Empire, Slavery, Colonialism and Migration is interested in exploring how the memory of such events will not be lost, and the ongoing initiatives of communities will continue their life in a digital archive.

    • What to capture—programmes and run‑sheets, recordings, transcripts, posters, photos, wall text, social media, artist/speaker files, audience responses, co‑curation outputs and oral histories—and how to document decisions so others can reuse and build on the work.
    • Why archive (visibility, accountability, cultural memory, education, advocacy);
    • For whom archives are made (participating Black communities, artists and speakers; future curators; learners; wider publics);
    • How to curate with care (consent, credit, community‑preferred language; platforms and metadata; preservation and sustainability).
    Round Table From Wall to Web poster

    Register now – places are limited!

  • Workshop on Generative AI: A Problematic Illustration of the Intersections of Racialized Gender, Race and Ethnicity and their Impact on Digital Heritage

    Workshop on Generative AI: A Problematic Illustration of the Intersections of Racialized Gender, Race and Ethnicity and their Impact on Digital Heritage

    6 June 2025, Glasgow

    This workshop was co-organised with CoLIS 2025 – the 12th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science.

    The workshop was delivered by Dustin Hosseini, University of Strathclyde, University of Cumbria, University of Glasgow, with inputs from Nayiri Keshishi, University of Surrey and Milena Dobreva, University of Strathclyde

    Introduction

    This workshop aimed to develop practical awareness and understanding of the problematic nature of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) within the digital heritage domain. Specifically, this workshop focused on critical and analytic thinking around the underpinnings of generative AI along with what generative AI (re)produces concerning race and gender.

    By discussing a set of examples, the workshop illustrates various issues around the misrepresentation of race and gender in AI-generated images. It will also provide the space for a broad discussion on the question of how can heritage professionals, as well as academics active in the digital heritage domain ensure that generative AI creations are more accurate and equitable representations of peoples/cultures/objects.

    Format

    The workshop was 90 minutes long. It required participants to bring their own device. The workshop included hands-on activity, discussion in small groups and peer learning. The schedule included:

    • Introduction – examples from AI generated images
    • Activity for the participants (experimentation with AI generated images)
    • Discussion: types of issues and possible solutions

    Recommended Reading (pre-workshop)

    Hosseini, D. D. (2024). Generative AI: a problematic illustration of the intersections of racialized gender, race, ethnicity. [pre-print]

    Further references 

    Benjamin, R. (2019). Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity Press.

    Participants from various cultural heritage institutions were interested in hosting this workshops for their teams. We are happy to discuss the delivery of the workshop tailored for a specific organisation – if you are interested in this, please get in touch with Mr Dustin Hosseini.