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

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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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  Forging a Modern Society. Photography and Corporate Communication in the Industrial Age (ARBED 1911 – 1937)

  An exhibition and book project resulting from a collaboration between the FAMOSO research team (C²DH) and the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA – National Audiovisual Centre).

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  A tri-national event for transnational histories

  In May 2017, the first edition of the tri-national doctoral school was organised in Saarbrücken, Germany, with the participation of three universities. The following blogpost is a report of the event with some personal reflections.

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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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  Visualisation and visual thinking in the Arts and Humanities – New Perspectives in Digital Humanities Conference

  In 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

  The 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

  The 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

  In 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

  From 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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