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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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    A new Deputy Director for the C²DH

    On 1 March, after an unanimous vote, Prof. Valérie Schafer became the new Deputy Director of the C²DH.

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    SCIROS visit at the C²DH and at the University: let’s collaborate on Open Science!

    The SCIROS project—Strategic Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Research on Open Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities is an initiative aimed at creating an international research network for systemic research on open science and the development of sustainable cooperation between academic institutions.

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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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    Launch of the ‘History and Migrations’ Chair: A Bridge Between Past and Future

    The University of Luxembourg and the City of Dudelange are launching an ambitious initiative: the “History and Migrations” Chair.

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    Defending Social Justice in a Changing World

    A recent research study conducted by Estelle Berthereau at the University of Luxembourg, under an agreement with the CSL, offers valuable insight into CSL’s remarkable history.

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    Community Archiving in Egypt: a new Public History Partnership

    The C²DH is thrilled to announce a new partnership between the project “Public History as a New Citizen Science of the Past” (PHACS) and Sard Center for History and Social Research (Shubra’s Archive) on community archives and practices of public history in Cairo (Egypt) and Shubra.

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    CfP: SHOT 2025 Annual Meeting

    Hosted by the C²DH at the Belval Campus of the University of Luxembourg from 9 to 11 October, the 2025 SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) Annual Meeting is organised under the theme ‘Technologies of Migration – Migrating Technologies’.

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    The First Digital Love Letters: A Hidden Story of Code

    In 1952, the Ferranti Mark I, one of the world’s first computers at the University of Manchester, did something extraordinary—it generated a series of randomly assembled love letters. These were no ordinary declarations of passion; they were written entirely by an algorithm.

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