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  Digital history between critical thinking and charismatic ideology

  Digital history provides new opportunities, but the use of digital tools should not blind historians to the existing challenges. An uncritical belief in the power of digital tools would be wrong, as much as an outright dismissive stance.

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  Forging a Modern Society. Photography and Corporate Communication in the Industrial Age (ARBED 1911 – 1937)

  An exhibition and book project resulting from a collaboration between the FAMOSO research team (C²DH) and the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA – National Audiovisual Centre).

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  A tri-national event for transnational histories

  In May 2017, the first edition of the tri-national doctoral school was organised in Saarbrücken, Germany, with the participation of three universities. The following blogpost is a report of the event with some personal reflections.

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  Catching Speech in Arezzo: A Clarin workshop for developing a transcription-chain for Oral History

  The challenge of this workshop on 'transcription and technology’, which took place from 10 to 12 May in Arezzo, consisted in turning recorded human speech into a textual representation that is as close as possible to what has been uttered.

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  Visualisation and visual thinking in the Arts and Humanities – New Perspectives in Digital Humanities Conference

  In the 2017 edition of the conference, arts and humanities students and early career researchers, regardless of their technical background, were invited to share their ideas and experiences in their creative and scientific encounters with visualisation as it is deployed in and for research across disciplines.

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  A history of cultural policy in Luxembourg in the 20th century: Outline for a dissertation project

  In this article, I will develop a first outline of my dissertation project on the history of cultural policy in Luxembourg, which would include a case study of a cultural institution.

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  Tinkering with black boxes and the need for a critical mindset

  From 20th to 24th February, a winter school on “Skills in digital humanities” was organised at the University of Luxembourg, where the participants were introduced to the software Nodegoat and the development of databases. It was a possibility of tinkering with a digital tool that was completely new to me. In the following, I will…

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  The Historical and Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies

  In the course of the twentieth century, various generations have documented and materialized their family memories on film, video and digital media. But how have these changes in technologies of memory shaped new forms of recording and screening as family memory practices?

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  histograph, a tool for the exploration of multimedia archives

  histograph helps institutions reveal the manifold relations between their digital collections of texts, images, audio and video documents.

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  I need a research tool to…

  A whole range of digital tools exists nowadays to help historians in their daily work, but how to choose the “perfect” one for your needs? Should you lose time searching for the holy Grail, or take the risk to try out and study tools that, in the end, might not fit your needs?

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