Organisation: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
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Visualisation and visual thinking in the Arts and Humanities – New Perspectives in Digital Humanities Conference
Learn moreIn the 2017 edition of the conference, arts and humanities students and early career researchers, regardless of their technical background, were invited to share their ideas and experiences in their creative and scientific encounters with visualisation as it is deployed in and for research across disciplines.
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A digital turn? On the future of archives
Learn moreThe first edition of the Forum Z series offered an opportunity to discuss the future of the archives and the challenges and opportunities of digitisation.
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The long shadow of the Second World War: An overview of the Forum Z debates
Learn moreThe Forum Z on the Second World War and research perspectives in this area promoted an interactive exchange between the public and the guest speakers.
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A history of cultural policy in Luxembourg in the 20th century: Outline for a dissertation project
Learn moreIn this article, I will develop a first outline of my dissertation project on the history of cultural policy in Luxembourg, which would include a case study of a cultural institution.
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Tinkering with black boxes and the need for a critical mindset
Learn moreFrom 20th to 24th February, a winter school on “Skills in digital humanities” was organised at the University of Luxembourg, where the participants were introduced to the software Nodegoat and the development of databases. It was a possibility of tinkering with a digital tool that was completely new to me. In the following, I will…
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The Historical and Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies
Learn moreIn the course of the twentieth century, various generations have documented and materialized their family memories on film, video and digital media. But how have these changes in technologies of memory shaped new forms of recording and screening as family memory practices?
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histograph, a tool for the exploration of multimedia archives
Learn morehistograph helps institutions reveal the manifold relations between their digital collections of texts, images, audio and video documents.
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I need a research tool to…
Learn moreA whole range of digital tools exists nowadays to help historians in their daily work, but how to choose the “perfect” one for your needs? Should you lose time searching for the holy Grail, or take the risk to try out and study tools that, in the end, might not fit your needs?
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Digital Source Criticism in the 21st century: reconsidering Ranke’s principles in the digital age
Learn moreDuring the workshop on digital source criticism that was held at the Humboldt University in Berlin on 23 June 2016, interesting reflections on the “digital turn” aroused.