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    Recording of ‘Everyone Their Own Historian-ish’ by M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska

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    The Lion’s Tools. Laying the ground work for transformative public history

    Recording of the keynote speech by Chao Tayiana Maina during the the international Public History online seminar.

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    Research perspectives: The Family of Man at 70 (1955-2025)

    On 24 May 2025, the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CNA), the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), and the University of Trier hosted a symposium on Edward Steichen’s ‘The Family of Man’ at Clervaux Castle. Seventy years after the photographic exhibition first came to life at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in…

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    Historical Ties Between Luxembourg and the DR Congo

    As part of the COLUX research project, Kevin Georgen traveled to Kinshasa (DR Congo) in 2024. The journey confronted him with the enduring legacies of colonialism and left him reflecting deeply on the role he occupied as a white or European historian working on the colonial past of Luxembourg.

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    Online Talk: Aligning Public History Narratives with Community Archiving Practices in Shubra (Egypt) and Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg)

    In this talk, prof. Thomas Cauvin and Dr. Myriam Dalal present the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), its public history and outreach (PHO) research group, and the work that has been produced within the project Public History as a New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) managed by its principal investigator Cauvin…

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    The Schengen agreements and the establishment of a borderless European area

    Forty years ago, five Member States of the European Community concluded the Schengen Agreement, paving the way for European citizenship and leading to a single area of security and justice.

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    Public History and artistic research in Luxembourg and beyond

    Lessons learned from a post-doc stay at the University of Luxembourg doing Public History and artistic research.

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    Public History and Arts, interview series

    Public History and Arts is an interview series, conducted by Dr. Myriam Dalal and Nada El Shabrawy.

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    Luxembourg Urban Garden (LUGA) 2025: Embedded in western European green space heritage

    On the occasion of LUGA 2025, Luxembourg’s first major open-air garden exhibition, Eliane Schmid (doctoral researcher at C²DH, University of Luxembourg) draws parallels between this event and understudied Western European greening initiatives dating back to the 1950s.

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    What nightlife can tell us. Dancing as historical method

    A three-year study at the C²DH explored how realities as evanescent and unserious as dance parties have been documented in archives and can be reclaimed through an experimental methodology.

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