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Opportunities, challenges and next steps: A look back at the first Impresso workshop with partners

What exactly does the Impresso project want to achieve with its research objectives in Natural language processing, design and history? What are the technical, conceptual and methodological challenges we face? How can we facilitate secure access to data with respect to copyright restrictions? These questions stood at the core of the first on-site Impresso workshop…

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Mariupol. A Hundred Nights – A Story Not Yet Forgotten

Thoughts about the animation film "Mariupol. A Hundred Nights" by Sofiia Melnyk and Andrii Palatnyi portraying a young girl who loses her family and home in Mariupol following the Russian invasion in 2022.

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Forced labor at GDR prison – animated in award-winning “Kaputt” animation

How does one visualize the tragic past of the Hoheneck imprisoned forced laborers, a reality that remained unseen for years? Three German directors, Volker Schlecht, Max Mönch, and Alexander Lahl, took on this daunting task by conducting extensive oral history research and transforming their findings into the award-winning animation “Kaputt.”

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History’s New Chatty Companion: Putting the Chat Eluxemburgensia to the Test

Members of the research area Contemporary History of Luxembourg and participants of the Strand Colloquium for Digital and Transnational History had a workshop to assess the capabilities of the Chat Eluxemburgensia, an AI-powered chatbot designed to provide historical information in response to natural language queries. The workshop identified the chatbot's strengths in answering specific, structured…

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Werkstattbericht: Workshop rund um Re-Use digitalisierter Zeitungen & Zeitschriften in Darmstadt

Ein zweitägiger Workshop zur Nachnutzung digitalisierter historischer Zeitungen und Zeitschriften fand am 13. und 14. Mai 2024 in Darmstadt statt.

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LOVÓ! Connecting with grandmothers to learn about the past.

The ‘lovó’ project aims to use oral history and art to put forward several voices of Portuguese speaking grandmothers who live in the city of Esch sur Alzette and have made this place their home.

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Conference report to “Ukrainian Studies Across the Borders”

The conference organized by the U-CORE project took place at the University of Luxembourg, 26-27 March 2024 and hosted UNDIPUS-scholars from three German universities, four disciplines and five projects.

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Guide on how to do public history in urban spaces

This guide offers a method to develop more collaborative public projects on the history of cities, towns, neighborhoods, with local communities.

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Decoding Fairground Newspapers: Analysing History with Large Language Models

Can large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) unlock the secrets hidden within historical documents, such as showpeople periodicals? This question propelled researchers from the universities of Antwerp, Luxembourg, and Marburg to explore the potential of LLM/AI in a one-day workshop.

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