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    Digital Source Criticism in the 21st century: reconsidering Ranke’s principles in the digital age

    During the workshop on digital source criticism that was held at the Humboldt University in Berlin on 23 June 2016, interesting reflections on the “digital turn” aroused.

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    How to get them hooked! An alternative approach to a Digital Humanities Workshop

    The challenge of leading a workshop with the goal of bringing scholars together and teach them how to apply a number of basic digital tools on a dataset of military memoires.

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    The limitations of data

    Data are not the same as sources and datasets need rigidly defined categories of information which does not allow for deviation and reinforces binary oppositions such as male and female.

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    Digital Humanities and Digital Physics

    From the 1940s on the computer starts playing a prominent role, shaping the field of physics. The integration of the computer in this discipline was by no means a natural inclusion, but a process of debate and negotiation of what it meant to “do” physics and what kind of knowledge can be acquired using computers.

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    Rediscovering Pompeii digitally

    Pompeian wall paintings as a source of inspiration for neo-classical domestic interior decorations; a digital approach to art history.

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    1968 in the Media / Media Studies Commission Seminar, Paris

    Members of the C²DH team assisted to the international seminar organised in Paris by the Media Commission of the FIAT/IFTA on Monday 20th March 2017 in collaboration with INA and EUscreen.

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    Teaching Digital Public History: taking future historians outside the Ivory Tower

    Members of the C²DH are preparing a course in Digital Public History for Bachelor students at the University of Luxembourg and they reflect on ways to get them involved with the topic.

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