Organisation: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
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Workshop on Histories of Maintenance, Repair, Reuse and Disposal
Learn moreThis report summarises a C²DH-hosted workshop concerning some undervalued and overlooked aspects of technology.
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Experimental Media Archaeology featuring the Apple IIe
Learn moreDuring a research visit to the Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder (CO) participants experimented with the Apple IIe. They either played an educational game or wrote a letter on a computer from the 1980s.
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Using Digital Tools to Generate Subtitles for a Radio Play
Learn moreThis entry briefly describes how we generated English subtitles (using digital tools) for the binaural radio play "Glanz und Elend der Kunstkopf-Stereophonie" we produced in 2017.
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On creating a research poster for an academic conference
Learn moreHistorians like to write, and they write a lot. Throughout my studies in history, I was taught how to analyse sources and how to write a scientific work. But I have never been taught how to present my research in a poster format – which requires a minimum amount of creativity.
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Oral History under scrutiny in München
Learn moreIn Munich, from 19 to 21 September 2018, a group of speech technologists, social scientists, linguists, computer scientists, oral historians and information scientists convened to explore the integration of digital tools in the workflow of scholars who work with interviews.
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CIDOC 2018 – Semantic Data Integration Conference in Heraklion, 29 September- 5 October 2018
Learn moreThe aim of the conference was generate and trace the “Provenance of Knowledge” as a core element in documentation. Provenance and Knowledge set a goal to verify the origins of the information and knowledge about an object which correlates to an idea in order to reconstruct the whole chain of creation, use, interpretation and dissemination…
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“Contemporary history in the digital era” study day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018): Challenges facing history in the digital age, a new “allure of the archives”?
Learn moreThe aim of the “Contemporary history in the digital era – sources, methodologies and criticism” day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018), the result of a partnership between the Universities of Lausanne and Luxembourg, the infoclio.ch website and the International Association of Contemporary History of Europe (IACHE), was to encourage collective reflection on the role of technological…
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Climbing out of the ivory tower, jumping into society: some thoughts on public history
Learn moreFrom 2 to 5 July 2018, I had the pleasure to participate in the Public History Summer School in Wroclaw (Poland). Not only was it an enriching experience for me, but it also pushed me to think more about the role of public history, its challenges and its opportunities.
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Follow-up on the Summer School on Transnational Radio History
Learn moreOn 18-22 June 2018, the C²DH hosted an international Summer School on Transnational Radio History, an event organised in collaboration with the Ministry for Culture in Saarland (Germany) and its Luxembourgish counterpart in the context of the European Year of Culture 2018. By mixing academic panels with hands-on workshops and sites visits, the event was…
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DHBenelux 2018 – Integrating Digital Humanities
Learn moreThe theme of this year's annual DHBenelux conference was "Integrating Digital Humanities". Max Kemman provides a review of the conference, and how the discussions focused on the integration of the practices of scholars and librarians.