Topic: Digital tools
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Modernity meets History in Luxembourg
Learn moreOn the futuristically redesigned industrial site of Belval, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow Betto van Waarden explored the latest digital methods for conducting historical research at the C²DH.
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Lecture by Melvin Wevers: “Signals and Noise: Extracting Patterns of Cultural Expressions from Digitized Sources”. Recording and interview.
Learn moreLecture by Dr. Melvin Wevers, KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.
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A guide to using collections of digitised newspapers as historical sources
Learn moreThe impresso team has prepared a guide for scholars on using collections of digitised newspapers as historical sources, published on the PARTHENOS platform.
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International Oral History Workshop
Learn moreThis July 2019 workshop at C²DH was focused on digital oral history in the United States, its evolution over the past 20 years, and the prominent tools and methods currently available in the field. We used a combination of demonstrations, hands-on exercises, contributions from participants, and open discussion to facilitate an intercontinental dialogue, all aimed…
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Nibbling at text: identifying discourses on Europe in a large collection of historical newspapers using topic modelling
Learn moreHow can computer-assisted methods help us to solve problems that are fundamental to historical research? In a series of two blog posts we discuss a research pilot that aims to identify anti-modernist discourses on Europe in historical Swiss newspapers from the period 1939-1945.
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Lecture Tim Hitchcock – Beyond Close and Distant Reading: recording and interview
Learn moreLecture by Tim Hitchcock, Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.
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Experimenting with the use of interactive digital storytelling in academia
Learn moreOn 19 and 20 March, the C²DH hosted a two-day hands-on workshop on the use of interactive digital storytelling for academic historians with Sandra Gaudenzi, one of the leading experts in interactive storytelling and a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster.
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Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice
Learn moreOn 25-26 October 2018, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) organised the two day conference and workshop Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice, on occasion of the official launch of the Ranke.2 teaching platform for Digital Source Criticism.
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Integrating the digital into the academic curriculum of history – How to engage your audience
Learn moreAfter launching the Ranke.2 teaching platform on digital source criticism in autumn 2018, I assumed that its appearance and form – short colourful animations and easy-to-digest chunks of information – would soon catch the attention of lecturers and encourage them to use it in their courses. But a recent meeting with colleagues made me realise…
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