Organisation: Contemporary European History
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Events
Technostalgia. Afterlives of 80s-90s’ Digital Technologies
Learn moreThis 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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Integrating AI into historical research: a conversation with Benoît Majerus about his ERC project on the history of offshore shell companies
Learn moreProfessor 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
Learn moreResearch seminar with Fred Pailler and Alina Volnyskaya about CD-ROMS, pirates and the materiality of digital sharing.
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Recognizing the Role of Video Game Museums in the Future of Modern Museology
Learn moreResearch 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
Learn moreWith 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
Learn moreHistory 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
Learn moreHands 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
Learn moreThe 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.