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    Ferdaous Affan: Unraveling colonial propaganda with digital tools

    With a diverse background in data and knowledge engineering, plus using digitisation and AI in news archives, PhD candidate Ferdaous Affan aims to shed new light on the historical impact of colonial discourse. She shares more on the challenges of researching propaganda plus the enriching interactions she has had at the C²DH.

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    Western Double Standards in Media Coverage: A Continuing Dehumanization of BIPOC

    Recording of the lecture by Nayansaku Mufwankolo at the C²DH on 18 December 2024.

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    M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska will join the C²DH as a visiting research fellow

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    The Rise and Fall of CD-i 

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    Special issue ‘Is artificial intelligence the future of collective memory?’

    This Memory Studies Review special issue, edited by Frédéric Clavert (C²DH) and Sarah Gensburger (Sciences Po-Paris), explores the intricate relationship between artificial intelligence (ai) and collective memory.

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    Hybrid format for the 2024 World Conference of Public History: some feedback

    Feedback of the hybrid format chosen for the 2024 World Conference of Public History.

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    SciLux Podcast – Valérie Schafer on Online Virality and CD-ROMs

    In a new episode of SciLux podcast, Hanna Siemaszko and her guest Prof. Valérie Schafer explore the history of Online Virality and CD-ROMs.

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    Scholar at risk fellowship

    The C²DH offers one short-term fellowship (two months) for a scholar at risk.

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    New website: The History of the National Miners’ Monument in Kayl

    A new website, developed by the C²DH as part of a research project about the history of the Inspectorate of Labour and Mines (ITM), explores the intertwined histories of the National Miners’ Monument and the Léiffrächen in Kayl.

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    CD-ROM and HyperCard: revisiting histories of interactivity

    In their exploration of CD-ROM histories, the CD-Hist project team interviewed Florian Brody, one of the first users of CD-ROM drives in Europe, the head of The Voyager’s Expanded Books project, as well as both a practitioner and a theorist  in digital media.

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