Organisation: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
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The Gap and the Future: COVID-19 and (Digital) Collecting
Learn moreOn 15 September, the C²DH organised a round table discussion with various national players who are maintaining collections documenting how Luxembourg’s residents have experienced COVID-19.
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Images of invisible traces: documenting and re-enacting an 18th century experiment
Learn moreOn 17-18 December 2019, the first workshop of the DEMA project – Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory – project took place at the C²DH. For this workshop, specialists from the fields of media history, art history and the history of science were invited to share best practices and experiences in documenting hands-on and…
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#LuxLife: Reflections on The Recurated Museum
Learn moreDuring the summer semester we co-taught a course called The Recurated Museum, which explored the evolving role of museums in digital spaces. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic mid-semester and the subsequent explosion of movements like #MuseumAtHome and #CultureChezNous, we directly confronted many of the ideas we featured in class in a way that…
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Toppling Symbols: Statues, the Colonial Past and the Public Space
Learn moreThe actions against statues of historic figures involved in colonialism and its derivatives highlight the importance of critically confronting our past and rethinking our public space.
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Solving the Shoebox Syndrome: “Digital” Oral History Content Management
Learn moreThis workshop centred on digital methods for working with oral history and provided a survey of emerging practices for better discoverability within and across oral history collections. It facilitated sharing of approaches for oral history work at multiple stages, for collections published for posterity and for ongoing research projects.
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Forum Z goes online – digitised newspapers edition!
Learn moreWhat better place to share the opportunities inherent in the digitisation of newspapers collections than an online event?
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Lecture and workshop with Dr Randy Widdis on border studies
Learn moreRandy Widdis, Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Regina in Canada, was invited to the C²DH in February 2020 for a “Hands-on History” lecture followed by a two-day workshop.
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Study day on population movements in borderlands throughout Europe in the early years after the Second World War
Learn moreOn 13 May 2020, the C²DH hosted a first Webex study day for MA students on the “Displacement, resettlement, verification and nationalization after the Second World War” course taught by Professor Machteld Venken and Professor Denis Scuto.
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Repairing radios: A hands-on approach to the history of technology
Learn moreEarlier this year the REPAIR team invited fellow historians and friends to their first hands-on workshop: Repairing old radios and sensing history.
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Tales of Crime and Murder. Court cases in the archival collection of the National Archives in Luxembourg
Learn moreThe documents from the Luxembourgish justice authorities, especially from the "cour d'assise", tell stories about blood and thunder, murder and thieves, but also reveal stories about people, their personal histories, and their struggles in everyday life.