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

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    The “The Quest for Questions in Digital History” at DH Benelux 2017

    The fourth DHBenelux Conference was hosted by Utrecht University (the Netherlands) from 3 to 5 July 2017. Dr Florentina Armaselu presented a paper co-authored with Dr Elena Danescu, entitled "The Quest for Questions in Digital History: A Comparative View on Werner- and Delors Report on Economic and Monetary Union".

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    Through the labyrinth of normalisation: The Jewish community as a mirror for the majority society

    The Jewish Museum in Prague currently shows an exhibition that presents the situation of the Jewish community during the “normalisation” period. The majority of the documents and photographs are being exhibited for the very first time and it is interesting to see audiovisual propaganda against the European Zionist movements captured on several newly accessible recordings.

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    Listening to the past – with two ears

    Within the framework of the research project "Failure and Success of Dummy Head Stereo: An innovation history of 3D listening", Stefan Krebs and Andreas Fickers produced a binaural radio play about the history of binaural stereo.

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    [New Book] Framing Age – Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics

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    Cultural policy in present times: impressions from the ninth Federal Congress on Cultural Policy

    The following blogpost is a personal report on the ninth Federal Congress on Cultural Policy, which took place in Berlin on 15th and 16th of June.

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    Report on the conference “Benelux, Europe and the Cold War, the power of non-powers”

    What was/is European security in the context of the Cold War? How was and is it conceived? What role did “non-powers” play in European security, and how did they help define it? These were the main questions discussed during the conference held by the C²DH in March 2017.

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    Digital history between critical thinking and charismatic ideology

    Digital history provides new opportunities, but the use of digital tools should not blind historians to the existing challenges. An uncritical belief in the power of digital tools would be wrong, as much as an outright dismissive stance.

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    Catching Speech in Arezzo: A Clarin workshop for developing a transcription-chain for Oral History

    The challenge of this workshop on 'transcription and technology’, which took place from 10 to 12 May in Arezzo, consisted in turning recorded human speech into a textual representation that is as close as possible to what has been uttered.

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