Join a session

Open to guests

DIPTCH 2026 is a course for JMC students, and you are welcome to join its sessions as a guest. Each session is an online talk by an invited speaker, on Zoom, every Tuesday from 18:00 to 20:00 Israel time. You can join one session or all of them.

How to join

  1. Choose the sessions you would like to attend from the program below.
  2. Send an email to Doron Altaratz with your name, your institution or affiliation, and the sessions you want to join.
  3. You will receive the Zoom link by email.

The program

  • Session 1, 20 October 2026: Moshe Caine (held): Digital Heritage Preservation: An Overview
  • Session 2, 3 November 2026: Sharon Tager: An Introductory and Historic Overview of the Role of Imaging in the Conservation of Museum Collections
  • Session 3, 10 November 2026: Shai Halevi: The Application of Advanced Imaging Technologies in Archaeology
  • Session 4, 17 November 2026: Sorin Hermon: The Heritage Digital Twin as a unifying framework for the research, conservation and valorization of Cultural Heritage
  • Session 5, 24 November 2026: Pedro Soares Neves
  • Session 6, 1 December 2026: Marinos Ioannides: From a Digital Twin in Cultural Heritage to a Memory Twin of the Past
  • Session 7, 15 December 2026: Mia Gaia Trentin: One traveller, three media: preserving Vasyl Barsky’s multimodal record of Cyprus (1735)
  • Session 8, 22 December 2026: Graham Diprose: Digital Preservation and Access: Photography Past, Present and Future
  • Session 9, 29 December 2026: Stefan Simon: Share & Use: Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
  • Session 10, 5 January 2027: Rolando Volzone

All times are Israel time. We plan to record the sessions, and recordings are available on request. Each speaker has a page with the abstract and a short biography. To learn more about the course, see the home page.