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

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    In quest of academic identities: my participation in the ISCH conference in Tallinn

    From 26 to 29 June 2019, I participated in a conference in Tallinn (Estonia) organised by the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH), where, in addition, I presented a paper on cultural policy in Luxembourg. This experience was part of a quest to better understand cultural history and my own research.

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    Decoding Europe – Technological Pasts in the Digital Age

    From 27 June to 1 July 2019, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg hosted the 9th conference of the Tensions of Europe network.

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    Lecture David Bodenhamer: The Spatial Humanities, Deep Mapping, and the Future of History. Recording and interview.

    Lecture by Prof. Dr David Bodenhamer, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.

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    Nibbling at text: identifying discourses on Europe in a large collection of historical newspapers using topic modelling

    How can computer-assisted methods help us to solve problems that are fundamental to historical research? In a series of two blog posts we discuss a research pilot that aims to identify anti-modernist discourses on Europe in historical Swiss newspapers from the period 1939-1945.

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    The multiple facets of visualising history

    The Forum Z on Visualising History in the 1535 Creative Hub in Differdange opened up different perspectives to the challenges of visualising history in accessible, entertaining and interesting ways.

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    Lecture Tim Hitchcock – Beyond Close and Distant Reading: recording and interview

    Lecture by Tim Hitchcock, Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.

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    A research trip to Koblenz: archives, monuments, museums

    My research sometimes leads me onto unexpected paths. My travel to Koblenz counts without doubt among them.

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    Digital Cultural Heritage: the case of the Rijksmuseum’s past, present and future

    Lecture by Saskia Scheltjens, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, about the role of information and data science within cultural heritage.

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    Experimenting with the use of interactive digital storytelling in academia

    On 19 and 20 March, the C²DH hosted a two-day hands-on workshop on the use of interactive digital storytelling for academic historians with Sandra Gaudenzi, one of the leading experts in interactive storytelling and a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster.

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    Lecture Patrik Svensson – Unframing Infrastructure: recording and interview

    Lecture by Patrik Svensson, Professor of Humanities and Information Technology at Umeå University, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.

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