Organisation: Contemporary European History

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    Lawyers and capitalism. The History of Lawyers as Key Actors in the Development of Global Capitalism

    Workshop on the History of Lawyers as Key Actors in the Development of Global Capitalism.

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    Sreda Theory: Environments, Media, and the Soviet Prehistory to Artificial Intelligence

    Lecture by Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) in the Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance lecture series.

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    The CD-ROM project presents its curated bibliography

    Outlining the general history of the CD-ROM and its sources, the CD-Hist project presents a curated bibliography that provides a first in-depth look into this artifact and medium.

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    Where does Internet Advertising come from? A Political Economic Perspective

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    Lecture series: Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance

    This lecture series is a praxeological and interdisciplinary endeavor, in which we enquire into the scales of co-operation that make media environments materialize.

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    Elena Danescu has been awarded the Jean Monnet Fellowship for Advanced Studies at the EUI Florence

    Dr Elena Danescu has been awarded a competitive Jean Monnet Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute for the research project “The female face of the EU”.

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    The CD-ROM, a precursor of our digital world

    By studying the history of the CD-ROM, a research team from the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), research centre at the University of Luxembourg,  will show how this technology, which peaked in the 1990s, had a lasting impact on digitalisation, media and interactivity, and more generally on culture, the arts, society and…

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    New publication: Online Virality

    The book Online Virality, edited by Valérie Schafer and Fred Pailler, explores the many ways we can analyse the circulation, reception, and evolution of viral born-digital content.

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    Myriam Piguet receives Lombard Odier Prize

    Dr. Myriam Piguet has been recently awarded the Lombard Odier Prize by the Swiss Forum for International Affairs for her doctoral thesis.

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