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    Between the front and home – War letters of Luxembourgers in Nazi forces and organisations during WWII as a source to study their individual war experiences

    The ongoing project WARLUX aims to study the biographies of young Luxembourgers, born between 1920 and 1927, who were drafted by the Nazi German authorities for the Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst) and the German Army (Wehrmacht).

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    Collaborative COVID-19 Memory Banks: History and Challenges

    Report of the international workshop held on 26 November 2020 with experts from European universities who have initiated public COVID-19 platforms to collect testimonies.

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    Recording: When will an algorithm identify a sleeping lion as an emblem of a vigilant ruler?

    Recording of the DTU online lecture with Hans Brandhorst on 17 December 2020.

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    Uncovering Luxembourg’s Industrial Past and Public History Research Methods

    Visiting Research Fellow, Nicole Basaraba, examined how historians and anthropologists can remix industrial history into a mobile application designed for public engagement.

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    Knowledge Infrastructures and Digital Governance workshop

    Organised in the framework of the OPERAS-P project, the online workshop was held on 7 and 8 September 2020 with the aim of combining theoretical and practical perspectives on issues that are constantly developing as a result of the wide-ranging forms and aims of research infrastructures and the challenges facing digital governance.

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    Timecode Indexing Module: creating multimedia access to oral history

    This is a preview of the Timecode Indexing Module (TIM) presented during the 2020 Oral History Association Annual Meeting.

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    The Gap and the Future: COVID-19 and (Digital) Collecting

    On 15 September, the C²DH organised a round table discussion with various national players who are maintaining collections documenting how Luxembourg’s residents have experienced COVID-19.

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    Images of invisible traces: documenting and re-enacting an 18th century experiment

    On 17-18 December 2019, the first workshop of the DEMA project – Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory – project took place at the C²DH. For this workshop, specialists from the fields of media history, art history and the history of science were invited to share best practices and experiences in documenting hands-on and…

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    #LuxLife: Reflections on The Recurated Museum

    During the summer semester we co-taught a course called The Recurated Museum, which explored the evolving role of museums in digital spaces. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic mid-semester and the subsequent explosion of movements like #MuseumAtHome and #CultureChezNous, we directly confronted many of the ideas we featured in class in a way that…

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