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Dr. Ian Kisil Marino

Research associate, Project LivArch

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Ian Marino joined the Leibniz-IEG in 2024 as part of the LivArch project. He holds a PhD in History from the State University of Campinas (Brazil). His work focused on the emergence of digital archives regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America, with strong connections to the fields of Digital History, Global History, Theory of History, and Memory Studies. Ian is also a collaborator at the Center for Digital Humanities-Unicamp (Brazil) since 2020, where he held a leading position in the Coronarchive project – an Open Science initiative that systematized data about over a hundred digitally born archives regarding the pandemic in Latin America.

  • Digital transformation within archives and historical sources
  • Crowdsourced and community-driven digital archives
  • Interfaces of memory and history within digital transformation on a transnational scale
  • Theoretical reflections on archiving, historical time, and sensitive pasts

  • Promises and pitfalls of crowdsourcing based on COVID-19 digital archives in Latin America | in: Althage, Melanie et al: Digitale Methoden in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis: Fachliche Transformationen und ihre epistemologischen Konsequenzen: Konferenzbeiträge der Digital History 2023 (Chapter), https://zenodo.org/record/8319680
  • COVID-19 and Digital Memory in Latin America. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 [co-authored with Thiago Nicodemo], https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.1071
  • Digital Resources: Digital Informal Archives in Contemporary Brazil. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 [co-authored with Thiago Nicodemo and Pedro Silveira], https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.993

Ongoing
July 2024 - June 2027
Digitalität

LivArch – Documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine: The challenges of living archives for historical knowledge production

Historians have been debating the paradox of abundance and scarcity of archives and sources since the worldwide popularization of Web 2.0. The ongoing war in Ukraine (2022-) stands out among other disruptive events in the 21st century that comprise such a paradox the most, as one can see by the emergence of new types of community-driven archives, the generation of archival material in real time, and the increased reliance on digital sources due to the inaccessibility of physical archives. Historical research on this war will rely on a multitude of digitally born sources that are being gathered and generated mostly by grassroots activities using social network posts, chats, videos, snapshots by mobile devices, or georeferenced data by satellite.
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