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

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  Empowering History: On the Role of Historians in Today’s Society

  Why is history important? Why does society need history and historians? Read Fabio Spirinelli's personal answer as a historian and citizen.

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  Traces and memories in the making of a pandemic (3) – #covidmemory

  Today, April 10, C²DH researchers launched the digital memory bank covidmemory.lu. The platform #covidmemory offers people living or working in Luxembourg the opportunity to share their personal experiences with one another and to archive them for future generations.

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  History of justice – An insight into the work with court files in the National Archives of Luxembourg

  Student assistant Nikolay Chevtchenko shares his experience in working for the C²DH's 'History of Justice in Luxembourg' project.

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  Learning by Walking: Discovering Esch and its Industrial Surroundings

  On 12 November, the REMIX team visited the town of Esch-sur-Alzette and the surrounding industrial sites. The visit was organised and guided by Denis Scuto, the C²DH Vice-Director and a true Escher at heart. In addition to its exploratory purposes, the full-day tour proved to be an excellent bonding experience for the REMIX team.

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  Holocaust History and Memory

  This Forum Z centred around three themes related to Holocaust history and memory – Holocaust history in the digital age, the Holocaust and Jewish life in Luxembourg, and combating anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe.

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  Modernity meets History in Luxembourg

  On the futuristically redesigned industrial site of Belval, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow Betto van Waarden explored the latest digital methods for conducting historical research at the C²DH.

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  An Experimental Media Archaeological Approach to Early-Twentieth Century Home Cinema

  In this blog post, I present my post-doctoral research within the DEMA project in which I examine the genealogy of home cinema and amateur moviemaking as early-twentieth century practices by means of an experimental media archaeological approach.

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  Lecture by Julianne Nyhan “New findings and new questions about the origins of Digital Humanities”. Recording and interview.

  Lecture “New findings and new questions about the origins of Digital Humanities: on the state of the art of histories of the Index Thomisticus project of Fr Roberto Busa S.J.” by Dr. Julianne Nyhan, UCL (London), and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.

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  Lecture by Melvin Wevers: “Signals and Noise: Extracting Patterns of Cultural Expressions from Digitized Sources”. Recording and interview.

  Lecture by Dr. Melvin Wevers, KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.

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  Crossing the Imaginary Curtain: My Experiences in Prague

  In October, I traveled to Prague for a workshop on the history of science and the Second World War. For the second time during my PhD, it was an opportunity to cross the imaginary iron curtain. The experiences during those days were undoubtedly insightful.

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