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SUMMARY:Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past
DESCRIPTION:Who produces history, and under what conditions? While historical knowledge has long been shaped within academic frameworks, the involvement of non-professional actors—from historical societies to community archives and activist associations—has a rich history. The international conference "Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past" examines the processes, methodologies, and collaborations through which citizen historians engage in collecting, classifying, and interpreting the past from the nineteenth century to the digital age.\n\nThe conference takes place at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, on 11 and 12 May 2026. Hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), the event is part of the research project Citizen Participation in History and Heritage Production (CIPHH), funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), in collaboration with the Laboratoire d’histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal (LHPM, Université du Québec à Montréal) and the research project “Agents mémoriels, un engagement citoyen d’hier à aujourd’hui” (Montréal, Canada).\n\nThe programme features seven panels covering topics such as collaborative practices in digital history, heritage disputes, community activism, and participatory research, and will be held in a hybrid format.\n\nProgramme\n\n08.30\n\nRegistration & Welcome Coffee\n\n09.00\n\nOpening, Professor Thomas Cauvin, Natália Gonçalves\n\n09.15\n\nPanel 1: Collaborative Practices in Digital History\n\nModerator: Julia Göke\n\nOlalekan Ojumu: It Takes a Community: Archivi.ng and the Power of Citizen Participation in Preserving Nigeria’s History (online)\n\nLorna Elms: The Irish Community Archive Network (iCAN) is the leading organisation championing and supporting digital community archives in the Republic of Ireland\n\nFien Danniau, Ishka Desmedt and Fons Verheyde: Nature Periodicals as Knowledge Networks: Past Practices and Digital Futures\n\n11.00\n\nPanel 2: Citizen Engagement, Heritage, and Disputes\n\nModerator: Monyck de Sá Santos\n\nLaura Boever: Politics of Memory After 1945: The role luxembourgish government concerning memory culture conflicts.\n\nZhanat Kundakbayeva: From Grassroots to Institution: The Association of Victims of Unlawful Political Repressions and Kazakhstan’s State Rehabilitation Project\n\nWojciech Bedyński and Kornelia Kończal: Economies of Memory: Difficult Heritage in a Post Displacement Landscape\n\n12.30\n\nLunch break\n\n13.30\n\nPanel 3: Community Practices, Activism, and Historical Knowledge\n\nModerator: Cássia Hosni\n\nAnath Ariel de Vidas: What history? The construction of oral traditions versus historical knowledge within the context of Afro-descendant activism in Mexico (online)\n\nAli Almutawakel: Digital Storytelling and Social Media as Tools for Documenting Refugee Experiences: A Humanitarian Perspective (online)\n\nLara Ergül Claeys, Emilia Gyselinck and Fien Danniau: Environmental History for and by Activists. Insights from a student-led project history week\n\n10.45\n\nCoffee break\n\n15.00\n\nCoffee break\n\n15.15\n\nPanel 4: Participatory Research and Territorial Practices\n\nModerator: Marie Mathevet\n\nRein Debrulle: Beyond the Map: How Collaborative Georeferencing Supports Engaged Historical Research\n\nKrzysztof Wasilewski: Grassroots online heritage activists in the Polish-German borderland and the production of transcultural memory (online)\n\nGrace Njeri Gatere: The Role of Citizen Historians of Taita Taveta: Keeping Time in the Hills (online)\n\n16.45-17.00\n\nConclusion of Day 1\n\n09.00\n\nMorning coffee\n\n09.30\n\nPanel 5: Special Panel: Are you on the list? History, methods and roles of list-making for World War II veterans and victims\n\nModerator: Masha Meleshko-Sudina\n\nZoé Grumberg: Fighting against oblivion: David Diamant and the lists of Jewish communists’ fighters in the French Resistance\n\nÉric Cheynis: The resistance on index cards: categorisation and recognition of the population of the Vercors maquis\n\nBlandine Landau: “Counting the Jews”: issues linked to list-making and memory policies in Luxembourg\n\nFred Pailler: Technologies of categorisation, technologies of memory: post-WW2 lists of people still in the making…\n\n11.00\n\nCoffee break\n\n11.15\n\nPanel 6: Co-production and Collaborative Methods\n\nModerator: Emilia Sánchez González\n\nGeoff Belknap: Making Space to Talk: Creating Community-led Collections Projects in the Archive and Online (online)\n\nRosanna Farbol and Tommy Cassøe: Pride and Prejudice - Productive Friction in Co-produced Cold War History\n\nBendjedid Rachad Sanoussi: Tourist guides as citizen producers of the past: heritage practices in Fes, Morocco\n\n12.45\n\nLunch break\n\n14.00\n\nPanel 7: Historical Societies and Amateurs (Societés historiques et amateurs – session in French)\n\nModerator: Roxane Perez\n\nAurore Cartier and Catarina Pereira: Société archéologique de Namur (SAN)\n\nVéronique Moulinie: D’un livre à l’autre : la double écriture de la captivité des prisonniers de guerre français en Allemagne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (online)\n\nNeila Rhouma: Practical proposal for citizens regarding the production and preservation of history (online)\n\n15.30-16.00\n\nClosing Remarks\n\nPractical information\n\nHow to get to Belval Campus\n\nPublic Transport: Public transport is free throughout the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. We highly recommend downloading the Mobiliteit.lu app to plan your journeys.\n\nBy Train: Take the train to the "Belval-Université" station. The campus is a short walk from the platform.\n\nBy Bus: Several lines serve the "Esch-sur-Alzette, Universitéit" stop.\n\nBy Plane: Luxembourg Airport (Findel) is connected to the city centre and Belval by bus and train (approx. 45-60 minutes).\n\nRegistration\n\nAttendance is open to both in-person and online participants. Registration is required and will remain open until the day of the event. Certificates of participation will be issued to all registered attendees, provided their presence is confirmed (including for those joining us online).\n\nRead more: https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/events/citizen-practices-in-producing-and-preserving-the-past/
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LOCATION:Black Box - Maison des Sciences humaines 11 - Porte des Sciences 4366 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg
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