Steffi de Jong
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About
Steffi de Jong joined the Department of Historical and Classical Studies at NTNU as an associate professor for Public History and History Didactics in 2023. Her research interests include museum studies, cultural memory studies, sound studies, digital history and the history of re-enactment. She is currently working on a project on the origins of re-enactment in the 19th century financed by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, as well as on a project on the representation of history in VR. She has recently finished a project on computer-based representations of concentration and extermination camps financed by the Grimme Forschungskolleg.
Steffi de Jong obtained her Phd from NTNU in 2012. Her book The Witness as Object. Video Testimony in Memorial Museum was published in 2018 by Berghahn Books. Before re-joining NTNU she worked as a lecturer at Maastricht University and as an assistant professor at the University of Cologne.
She has published internationally on the figure of the witness, the museal representation of history, digital Holocaust memory and sound in museums.
Since 2023
Associate professor for Public History and History Didactics at NTNU
2014-2023
Assistant professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Cologne
2013-2014
Tutor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University
2008 - 2012
Phd Candidate in the Research Project Exhibiting Europe at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
Phd Thesis: Musealising the Witness. Video Testimonies in Holocaust and Second World War Museums.
2009-2010
Research stay at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
2007-2008
MA Analysing Europe at Maastricht University and the Jagiellon University in Krakow.
MA thesis: Europe on Show: Exhibiting European Culture and History in Museums.
2006-2007
European Voluntary Service at the Office for International Relations of the Province of Padua.
2003-2006
BA in English Literature and Drama/Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London (First Class Honours).
Research
The history of re-enactment with a focus on performative, immersive and authenticating practices for transmitting and appropriating history through attitudes, artists' festivals, historical processions and archaeological experiments in the 19th century
The history of public history with a focus on the German speaking and Scandinavian countries
The history of the senses with a focus on sound in museums
New media and memory with a focus on the digital memory of the Holocaust
The figure of the witness to history between cultural and communicative memory, public history and oral history
Publications
2023
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2023)
The Simulated Witness. Empathy and Embodiment in VR Experiences of Former Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps.
History and Memory
Academic article
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2023)
Zeitreisen nach Auschwitz. Die Veränderung des Holocaustgedenkens durch Virtual Reality.
Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung
Academic article
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2023)
Die Zeitzeug*in.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2023)
Book Review: Hughes, Judith M.: The Perversion of Holocaust Memory. Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989.
Neue Politische Literatur
Article in business/trade/industry journal
2021
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2021)
Vor Gettysburg. Vorläufer des Reenactments im 19. Jahrhundert.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2018
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2018)
The Witness as Object. Video Testimony in Memorial Museums.
Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books
Academic monograph
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2018)
»Wir sollten auch die Lücken in der Überlieferung aufzeigen.«
Steffi de Jong im Interview mit Alexander Kraus zum Umgang mit
Zeitzeugnissen in Holocaustausstellungen.
Chapter
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2018)
Sentimental Education. Sound and Silence in History Museums.
Museum and Society (M&S)
Academic article
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2018)
Museum.
Encyclopedia article
2016
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2016)
Book Review: von Stieglitz, Leo & Brune, Thomas (eds.) (2015). Hin und Her. Dialoge in Museen zur Alltagskultur. Aktuelle Positionen zur Besucherpartizipation (Back and Forth. Dialogs in Museums on Everyday Culture. Current Positions on the Participation of Visitors). Bielefeld: transcript.
Bayerisches jahrbuch für Volkskunde
Book review
2015
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2015)
Exhibition Review: Polin – Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In WerkstattGeschichte 69, pp.83-88.
WerkstattGeschichte
Book review
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2015)
Meijer-van Mensch, Léontine & Tietmeyer, Elisabeth (eds.) (2013). Participative Strategies in Collecting the Present. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge,.
Bayerisches jahrbuch für Volkskunde
Book review
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2015)
Mediatised Memory. Video Testimonies in Museums.
Chapter
2013
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2013)
Im Spiegel der Geschichten. Objekte und Zeitzeugenvideos in Museen des Holocaust und des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
WerkstattGeschichte
Academic article
2012
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Jong, Steffi de;
Krankenhagen, Stefan;
Scholze-Irrlitz, Leonore;
Storeide, Anette Homlong.
(2012)
Musealising the Witness: Video Testimonies in Holocaust and Second World War Museums.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181 (2012:374)
Doctoral dissertation
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2012)
Who is History? The use of autobiographical accounts in history museums.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2011
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2011)
Bewegte Objekte. Zur Musealisierung des Zeitzeugen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2011)
Is This Us? The Construction of European Woman/Man in the Exhibition It's Our History!.
Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
Academic article
Journal publications
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2023)
The Simulated Witness. Empathy and Embodiment in VR Experiences of Former Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps.
History and Memory
Academic article
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2023)
Zeitreisen nach Auschwitz. Die Veränderung des Holocaustgedenkens durch Virtual Reality.
Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung
Academic article
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2023)
Book Review: Hughes, Judith M.: The Perversion of Holocaust Memory. Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989.
Neue Politische Literatur
Article in business/trade/industry journal
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2018)
Sentimental Education. Sound and Silence in History Museums.
Museum and Society (M&S)
Academic article
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2016)
Book Review: von Stieglitz, Leo & Brune, Thomas (eds.) (2015). Hin und Her. Dialoge in Museen zur Alltagskultur. Aktuelle Positionen zur Besucherpartizipation (Back and Forth. Dialogs in Museums on Everyday Culture. Current Positions on the Participation of Visitors). Bielefeld: transcript.
Bayerisches jahrbuch für Volkskunde
Book review
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2015)
Exhibition Review: Polin – Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In WerkstattGeschichte 69, pp.83-88.
WerkstattGeschichte
Book review
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2015)
Meijer-van Mensch, Léontine & Tietmeyer, Elisabeth (eds.) (2013). Participative Strategies in Collecting the Present. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge,.
Bayerisches jahrbuch für Volkskunde
Book review
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2013)
Im Spiegel der Geschichten. Objekte und Zeitzeugenvideos in Museen des Holocaust und des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
WerkstattGeschichte
Academic article
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2011)
Is This Us? The Construction of European Woman/Man in the Exhibition It's Our History!.
Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
Academic article
Books
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2018)
The Witness as Object. Video Testimony in Memorial Museums.
Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books
Academic monograph
Part of book/report
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Jong, Steffi de.
(2023)
Die Zeitzeug*in.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2021)
Vor Gettysburg. Vorläufer des Reenactments im 19. Jahrhundert.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2018)
»Wir sollten auch die Lücken in der Überlieferung aufzeigen.«
Steffi de Jong im Interview mit Alexander Kraus zum Umgang mit
Zeitzeugnissen in Holocaustausstellungen.
Chapter
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2018)
Museum.
Encyclopedia article
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2015)
Mediatised Memory. Video Testimonies in Museums.
Chapter
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2012)
Who is History? The use of autobiographical accounts in history museums.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Jong, Steffi de.
(2011)
Bewegte Objekte. Zur Musealisierung des Zeitzeugen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
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Jong, Steffi de;
Krankenhagen, Stefan;
Scholze-Irrlitz, Leonore;
Storeide, Anette Homlong.
(2012)
Musealising the Witness: Video Testimonies in Holocaust and Second World War Museums.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181 (2012:374)
Doctoral dissertation
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2024
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LectureJong, Steffi de. (2024) Re-Discovering the Past by Re-enacting it: German Artist Festivals. Konferanse Hest og Høytid , Oslo 2024-01-24 - 2024-01-26
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LectureJong, Steffi de. (2024) Die Ära der Zeitzeug*in. Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft. Presentation for the members of the project Zeugenschaft? #Erinnerungslabor , Frankfort (Online) 2024-02-06 -
2023
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InterviewJong, Steffi de. (2023) Holocausterinnerung in virtuellen Realitäten. Ein Gespräch. Vigia Tech Vigia Tech [Journal]
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2023) Presentation on the “Post-Witness Era” as part of the Workshop Connecting with the Past – Art, Memory, Place, at the Falstad Centre. orkshop Connecting with the Past – Art, Memory, Place 2023-06-29 - 2023-06-30
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2023) „Wiederbelebte Vergangenheit. Frühe Reenactments im 19. Jahrhundert in und außerhalb Kölns“ (The Recovered Past. Early Reeanctment in the 19th century in and around Cologne), at the conference, Fokus Karneval: Zwischen Festkultur, politischer Spannung und immateriellem Kulturerbe (Focus Carneval: between festival culture, political tension and immaterial heritage), Cologne. Fokus Karneval: Zwischen Festkultur, politischer Spannung und immateriellem Kulturerbe 2023-10-27 - 2023-10-28
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2023) “Digital Reconstructions of Concentration Camps”. Digitization of Memory Practices and Heritage 2023-05-23 -
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2023) together with Juliane Tomann and Christoph Sommer, organizer of the panel Immersed in the Past: Historizing Practices of Embodied History, with the pape “A World History in Pantomimical Representations. Attitudes as a Form of Public History”, at the International Conference of the Memory Studies Association, Leicester. International Conference of the Memory Studies Association , Leicester 2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07
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LectureJong, Steffi de. (2023) Wiederbelebte Vergangenheit. Frühe Reenactments im 19. Jahrhundert in und außerhalb Kölns. Fokus Karneval: Zwischen Festkultur, politischer Spannung und immateriellem Kulturerbe , Köln 2023-10-27 - 2023-10-28
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InterviewJong, Steffi de; Schmitz, Larissa. (2023) Modernes Erinnern an den Holocaust. Köln Köln [Radio] 2023-11-09
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InterviewJong, Steffi de; Meershoek, Peter. (2023) Concentratiekamp als virtualreality-ervaring: waar ligt de grens tussen wat wel en niet kan?, in The Parool. Amsterdam Amsterdam [Journal] 2023-05-04
2015
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2015) von Hologrammen und sprechenden Füchsen - Holocausterinnerung 3.0. #erinnern_kontrovers 2015-07-09 - 2015-07-10
2011
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2011) Exhibiting History/Exhibiting Memory. Some reflections on the use of video testimonies in Holocaust and Second World War Museums. From Mass Murder to Exhibition: Museum Representations in Transatlantic Comparison , Washington 2011-11-18 -
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2011) The Figure of the Witness in Second World War Museums. Exhibiting Europe Conference , Oslo 2011-04-07 - 2011-04-07
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2011) Musealisierte Erinnerung. Zur Figur des Zeitzeugen in zeithistorischen Museen ausserhalb Deutschlands. Zeitzeugen im Museum , Schlesisches Museum Görlitz 2011-10-12 - 2011-10-14
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2011) Exhibiting Memory - Video Testimonies in Second World War and Holocaust Museums. Social Memory and Survivor Communities: Bergen-Belsen in Comparative Perspective , Bergen-Belsen Memorial and Hannover 2011-02-03 - 2011-02-05
2010
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2010) Authentische Schauobjekte? Zeizeugeninterviews in zeithistorischen Museen. Erzählte Authentizität - Authentizität des Erzählens , Bergische Universität Wuppertal 2010-07-15 - 2010-07-17
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2010) Musealising the witness. CHIMERA workshop Making European Cultural Heritag , Manchester 2010-03-17 - 2010-03-19
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2010) Video Testimonies in History Museum. Kulver seminar-workshop Re-visioning the museal objects between things and signs , Oslo 2010-12-02 - 2010-12-03
2009
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2009) Musealising the witness: The staging of First-Person Testimonies in European Second World War Museums and Exhibitions. Museums and Biographies , National Gallery, London 2009-09-11 - 2009-09-12
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Academic lectureJong, Steffi de. (2009) "Whose history? The figure of the witness in museums". The figure of the witness , Frei Universität Berlin 2009-07-10 - 2009-07-11