Organisation: Contemporary European History

  • News

    EHI team involved in the GRACE project

    The EHI team is proud to be part of the GRACE (Greater Region Artistic and Cultural Education) project.

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  • Events

    Online Virality: Past, Present, Future

    The theme for the conference is: Past, present and future of online vitality. Thanks to our international speakers, we will discuss various topics, including among others the methods and archives historians may use to understand virality, the roots of viral marketing, historical images that have gone viral, popular memes, virality on Mastodon and the future of virality…

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  • News

    CD-Hist project is starting

    The CD-Hist projectintends to retrieve the history of CD-Roms at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology.

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  • News

    Call for Participation RESAW25 conference: The Datafied Web 

    The C²DH and the EHI team are pleased to announce their involvement in the organization of the upcoming RESAW conference.

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  • Research Projects Pages

    A history of the CD-ROM (CD-Hist)

    A research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology.

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  • Events

    Creativity and AI

    Conference with Alban Leveau-Vallier, University Paris 8 and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris.

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  • Research Projects Pages

    Digitally Networked Media between Specialization and Universalization (DIGMEDIA)

    The project “Digitally Networked Media between Specialization and Universalization” is part of the Collaborative Research Center 1187 “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen. DIGMEDIA acts as subproject A01, led by Sebastian Gießmann in Germany and Valérie Schafer in Luxembourg. We pursue together a historical praxeology of digitally networked media that foregrounds specific techno-economic…

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  • Core Research Projects

    Digitally Networked Media between Specialization and Universalization (DIGMEDIA)

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  • Core Research Projects

    A history of the CD-ROM (CD-Hist)

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  • Research Projects Pages

    Historiographies, practices and aesthetics of an eroding difference (Normal#verrückt)

    The history of psychiatry is a history of the difference between “normal” and “crazy”. However, this difference is becoming increasingly fragile. On the one hand, with the opening of the psychiatric institutions and the integration of the inmates into society, the crazy gains an everyday normality; on the other hand, behaviours and reactions such as…

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