Category: Research

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    The CD-ROM project presents its curated bibliography

    Outlining the general history of the CD-ROM and its sources, the CD-Hist project presents a curated bibliography that provides a first in-depth look into this artifact and medium.

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    Lecture series: Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance

    This lecture series is a praxeological and interdisciplinary endeavor, in which we enquire into the scales of co-operation that make media environments materialize.

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    Feieren! Popular balls of the Luxembourgish mining bassin, 1920-1980.

    The “Dancing Esch” research project studies the festive sociabilities of the Luxembourgish mining basin during the 1920-1980. It focuses on popular balls in Esch-sur-Alzette, a town shaped by the mining and steel industry.

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    From Luxembourg to Chicago: How A Funfair Went Global

    Founded in 1340, the “Schueberfouer”, Luxembourg’s largest funfair, attracts every year visitors and goods from Luxembourg and aboard. Luxembourg emigrants in Chicago celebrate their own version of this fair as part of their heritage. Véronique Faber, doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), attended this year’s fair and explores the…

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    Welcome to visiting research fellow Rebecca S. Wingo

    Public Historian Rebecca S. Wingo joined the C²DH as a visiting researcher for the upcoming weeks.

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    The CD-ROM, a precursor of our digital world

    By studying the history of the CD-ROM, a research team from the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), research centre at the University of Luxembourg,  will show how this technology, which peaked in the 1990s, had a lasting impact on digitalisation, media and interactivity, and more generally on culture, the arts, society and…

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    New publication: Online Virality

    The book Online Virality, edited by Valérie Schafer and Fred Pailler, explores the many ways we can analyse the circulation, reception, and evolution of viral born-digital content.

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    ON AIR – Border Temporalities

    n a podcast episode of the ON AIR series produced by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, three C²DH researchers discuss the interdisciplinary approach adopted by the working group Border Temporalities

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    Myriam Piguet receives Lombard Odier Prize

    Dr. Myriam Piguet has been recently awarded the Lombard Odier Prize by the Swiss Forum for International Affairs for her doctoral thesis.

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    Gazengel – C²DH, what else?    

    Gazengel meets Marta after the presentation of her research project in the laboratory and she shares with her her impressions of her experience within the C²DH.

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