Organisation: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
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News
The First Digital Love Letters: A Hidden Story of Code
Learn moreIn 1952, the Ferranti Mark I, one of the world’s first computers at the University of Manchester, did something extraordinary—it generated a series of randomly assembled love letters. These were no ordinary declarations of passion; they were written entirely by an algorithm.
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Ferdaous Affan: Unraveling colonial propaganda with digital tools
Learn moreWith a diverse background in data and knowledge engineering, plus using digitisation and AI in news archives, PhD candidate Ferdaous Affan aims to shed new light on the historical impact of colonial discourse. She shares more on the challenges of researching propaganda plus the enriching interactions she has had at the C²DH.
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Research Groups
Public History ACTIVE Principles
Learn moreLike those components of a medicine that produce the desired effect, our active principles largely affect the ways in which we practice and reflect upon public history. They provide a summary of what the Public History and Outreach (PHO) Research Group at the C²DH stands for and what defines its work across projects and disciplines.
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Events
Humming Home, Public History and Sound (part 2)
Learn moreOnline presentation and discussion with Dr. Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
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Events
(Re)searching Nineteenth-Century Fairground Ephemera: (Un)conventional Pathways
Learn moreHands-on History talk with Bart G. Moens, University of Antwerp.
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Western Double Standards in Media Coverage: A Continuing Dehumanization of BIPOC
Learn moreRecording of the lecture by Nayansaku Mufwankolo at the C²DH on 18 December 2024.