Organisation: Department of Humanities

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    Cemeteries in Luxembourg: a public space like no other

    If Luxembourg is known for its diverse and multicultural population, this has not been evident at cemeteries until recently. In a conference that took place in Luxembourg city on the 28th October, Prof. Dr. Sonja Kmec discussed the growing number of new funerary rituals in the country and how they are being accommodated with stakeholders…

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    International research conference “Norms and Nature”, 5-6 Nov 2021

    This conference continues a series of conferences that took place at Saarbruecken, Zurich, and Luxembourg and that were dedicated to rational capacities, reasons, and reasoning. Now we would like to address some central topics in the theory of normativity that surround normative features or facts, such reasons, oughts, correctness etc.

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    CONFERENCE: un espace public pas comme les autres

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    Open-air Photo Exhibition

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    Conférence: Réflexions sur la notion moderne de culte impérial

    Réflexions sur la notion moderne de culte impérial, à l’occasion de l’exposition de Nîmes sur L’empereur romain, un mortel parmi les dieux.

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    HERA – Public space and cultural integration / Discussion: Mobilities, migrants and minorities in dialogueNew event

    This webinar includes an ‘in conversation’ panel with Dr Yasminah Beebeejaun, Professor Peter Hopkins and Professor Avril Maddrell; a quickfire round of ‘research insights through images’ and 3 short presentations from the three participating HERA projects. This will be followed by an open discussion exploring the theme of mobilities, minorities and public space.

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    Virtual Workshop: At work in the library: intellectual and material practices of historians in the 20th century

    In 2020, the Centre for Digital and Contemporary History, the Institut d’Histoire of the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Learning Centre started a research project on work and working methods of Gilbert Trausch (1931-2018), a major Luxembourgish historian. The international workshop will allow to exchange our ideas situated at the crossroad of historiography and…

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    How to design a truly sustainable food system in the context of climate change?

    On Thursday, 15th October 2020, Dr. Rachel Reckinger from the Institute for History will raise the question: “How to design a truly sustainable food system in the context of climate change?”  at the TEDxUniversityofLuxembourg 2020.Only a holistic focus on food systems and their sovereignty struggles leads to truly sustainable food transitions for communities in a…

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    75 years end of WWII – 75 years of transatlantic partnership in freedom and peace (Live online debate)

    These issues are discussed in the series “remembrance cultures under discussion” by Dr. Sonja Kmec, Associate Professor at the University of Luxembourg, Institute for HistoryJohn Wessels, Chief Operating Officer, American Battle Monuments Commission, ParisDr. Heinrich Kreft, Historian and former German Ambassador to Luxembourg, Andrássy Universität BudapestBrigadier General (rtd.) Dirk Backen, Director Service and Cooperation at…

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    La représentation des dieux, les prêtres et les cultes dans la Rome antique

    Since September 2019, John Scheid, an international renowned ancient historian, is guest professor at the Institute for History.Professor Scheid is a leading expert in the field of ancient religion, institutions and society of ancient Rome and archaeology of religion. For 15 years, he was professor at the prestigious Collège de France. Here, he was also…

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