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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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    Toppling Symbols: Statues, the Colonial Past and the Public Space

    The actions against statues of historic figures involved in colonialism and its derivatives highlight the importance of critically confronting our past and rethinking our public space.

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    Solving the Shoebox Syndrome: “Digital” Oral History Content Management

    This workshop centred on digital methods for working with oral history and provided a survey of emerging practices for better discoverability within and across oral history collections. It facilitated sharing of approaches for oral history work at multiple stages, for collections published for posterity and for ongoing research projects.

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    Lecture and workshop with Dr Randy Widdis on border studies

    Randy Widdis, Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Regina in Canada, was invited to the C²DH in February 2020 for a “Hands-on History” lecture followed by a two-day workshop.

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    Study day on population movements in borderlands throughout Europe in the early years after the Second World War

    On 13 May 2020, the C²DH hosted a first Webex study day for MA students on the “Displacement, resettlement, verification and nationalization after the Second World War” course taught by Professor Machteld Venken and Professor Denis Scuto.

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    Repairing radios: A hands-on approach to the history of technology

    Earlier this year the REPAIR team invited fellow historians and friends to their first hands-on workshop: Repairing old radios and sensing history.

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