Organisation: Contemporary History of Luxembourg

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    Loretta Walz Oral History Collection

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    Memory Quest: Reflections on crowdsourcing international testimonies

    Collecting memories of visiting the photography exhibition “The Family of Man”  when it toured the world seventy years ago.

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    OST. The vanished traces of the forced labourers from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus in Luxembourg 1942-1944

    The exhibition at the CDMH in Dudelange shows the vanished traces of 4,000 forced laborers brought to Luxembourg during World War II from Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union.

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    Study exploring Luxembourg’s tax competitiveness co-written by Benoît Majerus

    The Scientific Unit of the Chamber of Deputies released a study exploring Luxembourg’s tax competitiveness. The historical chapter was co-written by Benoît Majerus.

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    Dependence, Independence, Co-Dependence. Experiences and Narrations in the 20th Century

    Round table discussion about the question: what does it mean to be sovereign in a world of entangled histories and experiences?

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    Echoes of the Schueberfouer: Voices from the Fairground

    Exploring the theatrical and multilingual art of fairground “Recommandeurs” in the sensory chaos of the Schueberfouer during the 1960s.

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    C²DH Visiting Researcher Fellowships 2026

    The C²DH offers 3 fellowships for visiting researchers: for PhD candidates, Post-Docs and Senior Researchers.

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    Scholar at risk fellowship 2026

    To promote international exchanges and collaborations in the field of contemporary, public and digital history, the C²DH offers one short-term fellowship position for 2 months for a scholar at risk.

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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

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