Organisation: Contemporary European History

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    Technostalgia. Afterlives of 80s-90s’ Digital Technologies

    This international conference is organised by the CD-Hist team (in parallel to the “CD-ROM. One Click, One Story” exhibition. It seeks to explore how digital and computing pasts are remembered, revived, and reimagined.

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    Technostalgia, Obsolescence, and Media Practices

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    Integrating AI into historical research: a conversation with Benoît Majerus about his ERC project on the history of offshore shell companies

    Professor Benoît Majerus is using AI for his ERC research project on the history of offshore shell companies.

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    Cracked & burned: CD-ROMs, pirates and the materiality of digital sharing

    Research seminar with Fred Pailler and Alina Volnyskaya about CD-ROMS, pirates and the materiality of digital sharing.

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    Undone computer science

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    Recognizing the Role of Video Game Museums in the Future of Modern Museology

    Research seminar with Ewa Anna Swietlik about the role of video game museums in museology.

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    What 1960s consumer electronics advertising reveals about Luxembourg and its neighbours

    With his interest in media and communication history and as part of the PopKult60 project, Matthias Höfer is focusing on how companies popularised and advertised consumer electronics in Germany, France and Luxembourg in the 1960s.

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    Voyager Company: When the Future of Books ran on CD-ROM

    History of the Voyager Company which explored the possibilities of CD-ROM, while pushing the boundaries of multimedia and books.

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    Seeing like an International Organization. An alternative history of the Cold War

    Hands on History talk with Sandrine Kott about an internationalist history of the Cold War.

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    Reframing European Histories or Where Gendered Perspectives Meet Methodological Shifts

    The conference ‘’Women and Europe – Interdisciplinary Approaches, Innovative Prospects, New Sources’’ held on 10-11 November 2025 at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, aimed to critically explore the often-overlooked role of women in Europe’s contemporary history.

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