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

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    On the political uses of the past in Luxembourg

    In August 2022, I had the pleasure to participate in the conference of the International Federation for Public History at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Besides meeting colleagues and listening to exciting papers, I held a presentation as part of the panel Public History and the Political Uses of the Past. This blog post is…

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    Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory Conference – Report

    Report of the international conference that took place on 8 & 9 September in the Science Center, Differdange.

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    Experimental Media Archaeology on stage

    On 7 September, the Kulturfabrik in Esch-Alzette became the stage of a hands-on media archeology performance.

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    Digitalising historical objects in the face of war

    As a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many scholars and scientists have left the country. More than 30 Ukrainian researchers displaced by the war have temporarily joined the University of Luxembourg mainly as research fellows and in some cases under temporary contracts funded by the FNR. In this series of interviews, we briefly present…

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    From Boom to Bust: the History of Industrial Regions (1870-1970 and beyond)

    On 9 and 10 June 2022, the C²DH hosted an international conference on the history of industrial regions.

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    Interview with former PhD candidate Max Kemman

    As the C²DH celebrates its fifth anniversary, we asked one of our first PhD students, Max Kemman, about his memories of his time at the centre.

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    “Framing Luxembourg” – a scrollytelling experiment from STATEC and the C²DH

    With "Framing Luxembourg:" Statec and the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History tell "a history of Luxembourg in statistics as well as a history of statistics in Luxembourg".

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    New website: #DHJewish – Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities

    C²DH launches the new website #DHJewish – Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities, which offers a single access point to news, events, projects + more on the intersection of Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities.

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    Transcribing, Curating and Researching War Letters in the Digital Age

    A short report of the 2nd ‘War Letters’ workshop in Belval, Luxembourg.

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    The debate goes on: Liewen am Minett revisited

    Some 35 years after its appearance, the photo book “Liewen am Minett” was once again in the spotlight and the identity and image of the Minett at the centre of discussion.

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