Dr. Ian Kisil Marino
Personal Details:
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.
Research interests:
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
Selection of publications
2023:
2022:
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
2022:
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://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-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://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-993
Research projects:
LivArch - Documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine: The challenges of living archives for historical knowledge production
Duration: 2024-2027
The war in Ukraine has led to three significant changes in historical research: 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. LivArch aims to address these challenges, explore digital preservation practices and establish forms of shared authorship between scholars and activists as archive creators.