Organisation: Contemporary History of Luxembourg

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    CfP: Transit zones: Western European internment sites in the interspaces of Nazi persecution

    International conference organised by the C²DH / University of Luxembourg and the Centre Cinqfontaines / Zentrum fir politesch Bildung (ZPB) on 26.-27. February 2026.

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    Talking Borders: From Local Expertise to Global Exchange

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    Oral History Research at the C²DH

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    Lifeworlds, Identities, Framing Experiences: A Digital Oral History Platform (LIFE)

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  • Core Research Projects

    Lifeworlds, Identities, Framing Experiences: A Digital Oral History Platform (LIFE)

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    Call for Visiting Fellows – LivArch project

    The C²DH awards fellowships for a period of two or three months for doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, senior researchers or oral history practitioners as a part of the joint project “LivArch – Documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine: The challenges of living archives for historical knowledge production”.

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    CfP: Multiple Temporalities in Research on War-, Violence-, and Crisis-Affected Societies

    Call for Papers for an international workshop to be held from 2 to 4 February 2026 in Warsaw, organised in partnership with the C²DH.

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  • Articles

    Historical Ties Between Luxembourg and the DR Congo

    As part of the COLUX research project, Kevin Georgen traveled to Kinshasa (DR Congo) in 2024. The journey confronted him with the enduring legacies of colonialism and left him reflecting deeply on the role he occupied as a white or European historian working on the colonial past of Luxembourg.

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    The Art of Letter Writing in Luxembourg from the 1800s until 1950 (LUXSCRIBENS)

    Luxembourg’s multilingual background, including Luxembourgish, German, and French, has marked the country for a long period and proves particularly interesting in the context of letter writing. This project explores the evolution of letter writing in Luxembourg from the Napoleonic era to post-Second World War (1800s – 1950), focusing on the unique multilingual aspect of Luxembourgish.

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