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The impact of war experiences in Europe – The conscription of non-German men and women into the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1938-1945)
Learn moreReport of the international conference held on 26-28 October 2022 at the University of Luxembourg.
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Recording memories at the fair. Oral history and the “Schueberfouer”
Learn moreMemory has its own pitfalls, and to provide a more tangible environment for remembering, it was decided to perform oral history interviews for the ongoing research about the “Schueberfouer” funfair on site at the fairground. The assumption was that the space of the “Schueberfouer” could trigger memories and reflections that would otherwise not emerge. However,…
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Escher Kaffi: taking the pulse of the city
Learn moreEscher Kaffi is an experimental public history project funded by the C²DH’s Thinkering Grant to study ordinary sociality in a (post)industrial city undergoing fast infrastructural, urbanistic, demographic, and cultural transformations.
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“For folks like me on the job from 9 to 5”
Learn moreA contribution on office culture by BUREU team member Marco Ninno.
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MA Course: East meets West – Contacts, Connections and Convergences in (Post-) Cold War Europe
Learn moreThis MA course focuses on transnational European history during the Cold War and its aftermath and is available as an Open Educational Resource.
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Witnessing the Now: Challenges for Emergency Archiving and Oral History following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Learn moreReport of the workshop held on 23-25 November 2022 at the C²DH, University of Luxembourg.
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BUREU: A new transnational research project crossing the border between architectural history and European integration history
Learn moreThe newly started research project BUREU has the purpose to develop a transnational and multidisciplinary framework for the analysis of EU administrative buildings.
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On the political uses of the past in Luxembourg
Learn moreIn August 2022, I had the pleasure to participate in the conference of the International Federation for Public History at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Besides meeting colleagues and listening to exciting papers, I held a presentation as part of the panel Public History and the Political Uses of the Past. This blog post is…
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Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory Conference – Report
Learn moreReport of the international conference that took place on 8 & 9 September in the Science Center, Differdange.
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From Boom to Bust: the History of Industrial Regions (1870-1970 and beyond)
Learn moreOn 9 and 10 June 2022, the C²DH hosted an international conference on the history of industrial regions.