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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

    The C²DH is thrilled to announce a new and dynamic partnership between its Public History research group and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ).

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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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    CfP – Public history for contested and conflicting past(s)

    The online seminar ‘Public history for contested and conflicting past(s)’ is organised by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History (MADiPH) at the University of Luxembourg on Thursday, 19 June 2025.

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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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    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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