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CD-ROM charts in video games magazine: a brief case study of the German PC Player magazine

While video game magazines may serve as primary sources for identifying groundbreaking titles during the rise of the CD-ROMs, charts of best-selling games reveal significant variations in data sources and formats. What are the historical issues with video game charts, and more specifically their assets ad limits?

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CfP – Computational Humanities Research conference 2025

The 2025 edition of the Computational Humanities Research conference (CHR2025) will be hosted by Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg from 9 to 12 Decemb

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Public History Practices in the Global South: A New Partnership

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Faces of the C²DH: Inna Ganschow

Research scientist and migration scholar Inna Ganschow’s publication on forced labourers from the Soviet Union in Luxembourg during World War II was released early this month.

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How can 3D visualization enhance academia?

Kirill Mitsurov and Daniele Guido, designers and developers at the C²DH, created 3D representations of selected chemicals from PubChemLite—a project led by Professor Schymanski at LCSB.

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Valérie Schafer, newly appointed C²DH Deputy Director: “Supporting balance brings gains in diversity”

In March 2025, Valérie Schafer took on the role of Deputy Director at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg, succeeding Denis Scuto.

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Call for Papers: Workshop History of Digital History between East and West

This workshop will address these blind spots by focusing attention on the question of how the local and the transnational intersected in the technology-inflected reshaping of historical research practices and how political backgrounds, contexts and constraints fed into this process.

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Forced labor on the Belval campus. Soviet youth during the Second World War

The students are not the first to come to Campus Belval every day. Eighty years ago, it was young people who had been deported from the occupied territories of the USSR to Luxembourg to work in the steel industry in Belva

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Following ‘The Family of Man’ World Tour. Behind the scenes of a traveling exhibition

Undigitized archives are often invaluable treasure chests of information—a wrinkled, stained file, with the fading ink of an official stamp, can reveal secrets that had been classified for years and tell captivating stories.

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