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Lecture "Envelope, Punch Card, Chat: Love Letters in [Digital] Archives and Projects"

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25.11.2025 · 19:00 · UTC+3
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Saint Petersburg
Центральная городская публичная библиотека имени Маяковского
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How to preserve the tenderness of a letter in the digital age? At the lecture in the "History and Anthropology" club, they will talk about the fate of love messages - from punch cards to chats. Together with the DH Center of ITMO, participants will explore how digital archives change our view of feelings, memory, and the documentation of love. Love letters are not just words on paper, but real artifacts of feelings, time, and culture. In an era when emotions are increasingly packaged in emojis and disappearing messages, preserving and understanding the essence of these intimate messages becomes more complex and interesting. This topic is dedicated to the third meeting within the "History and Anthropology" club, organized in collaboration with the DH Center of ITMO. At the lecture, researcher and editor Vika Bordukova will share her experience in analyzing letters as cultural and historical documents. The journey of a love letter will be examined from handwritten envelope to punch card, from paper trace to digital chat. What stories are hidden in old letters? What is their fate in modern archives and online exhibitions? What happens to sensuality when it enters the space of the internet and databases? Listeners will learn how digital projects are created based on archival letters, how these materials are used in exhibitions, media, and research. An important question will also be raised - can a personal letter become public property, and where is the line between intimacy and openness in the 21st century? The lecture will be useful for those interested in digital humanities, the history of everyday life, the study of emotions, and memory preservation practices. This meeting is for the curious, thoughtful, and those who want to look at traditions that seem to have no place in the digital world.

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