Organisation: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)

  • Articles

    Forced labor at GDR prison – animated in award-winning “Kaputt” animation

    How does one visualize the tragic past of the Hoheneck imprisoned forced laborers, a reality that remained unseen for years? Three German directors, Volker Schlecht, Max Mönch, and Alexander Lahl, took on this daunting task by conducting extensive oral history research and transforming their findings into the award-winning animation “Kaputt.”

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    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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    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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    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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    History’s New Chatty Companion: Putting the Chat Eluxemburgensia to the Test

    Members of the research area Contemporary History of Luxembourg and participants of the Strand Colloquium for Digital and Transnational History had a workshop to assess the capabilities of the Chat Eluxemburgensia, an AI-powered chatbot designed to provide historical information in response to natural language queries. The workshop identified the chatbot's strengths in answering specific, structured…

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    Werkstattbericht: Workshop rund um Re-Use digitalisierter Zeitungen & Zeitschriften in Darmstadt

    Ein zweitägiger Workshop zur Nachnutzung digitalisierter historischer Zeitungen und Zeitschriften fand am 13. und 14. Mai 2024 in Darmstadt statt.

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  • Events

    Kiara, a data orchestration engine

    Research seminar with Prof. Sean Takats.

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    Creativity and AI

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

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