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

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    Personal stories of Luxembourgish conscripts

    Together with students, the WARLUX team researches the personal side of the history of Luxembourgers, born between 1920 and 1927, who were enrolled into German services during the Second World War. To uncover the individual experiences of these men, women and families, the team of WARLUX collects ego documents and personal interviews of this generation.…

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    Burtgrey & Richerolles. The Case of an Entangled Media History

    From comic to radio and back. The process of research as a media crossover experience.

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    HistorEsch: Public History Activities in the city of Esch-sur-Alzette

    HistorEsch is the overarching name for several public history projects that will be organised between 2021-2022 to actively involve the residents of Esch-sur-Alzette in the production of history.

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    How is order enforced during war and occupation? A conference on local administration during the first and second World Wars

    Wartime regimes are more than simple top-down structures of terror and coercion between the occupier and the occupied or between the warring state and its population. Existing administrations, networks and functional elites took on complex roles, often adapting to local circumstances. Administrative authorities and personnel were constantly interacting with the population regarding everyday affairs. Studying…

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    Workshop report ‘Digitising Industrial Heritage’

    On 17 and 18 June 2021, the C²DH has hosted an international hybrid workshop. This event was organised as part of the research project “Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age: Sounds, Images, Ecologies, Practices and Materialities in Space and Time”. Completed and ongoing projects were presented that shed more light on various aspects of…

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    Virtual Museum of Russian Emigration as a digital corpus of an unvisited exhibition

    This virtual museum is dedicated to Russian migration in Luxembourg since the late 19th century.

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    Conference Report: Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age: Theories, Concepts and Methods

    Lorella Viola and Machteld Venken (C²DH) organised the panel series “Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age: Theories, Concepts and Methods” at the International Migration Research Network Annual Conference (IMISCOE) on 7-9 July 2021 at the University of Luxembourg. The aim of the panel series was to explore how digital technologies have impacted…

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    Recording of the roundtable “Different cultures in Digital History”

    On the 8 June, the C²DH (University of Luxembourg) and the Center for Digital Humanities (Perm State University, Russia) organised an international round table entitled “Different Cultures in Digital History”

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    Légionnaires: exhibition and rallye

    The exhibition « Légionnaires » is the outcome of a collaboration between the University of Luxembourg/C²DH and the Musée Dräi Eechelen.

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