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Construction of a new building for biomedical research

On Tuesday, 29 November 2022, Claude Meisch, Minister of Research and Higher Education, and Simone Asselborn-Bintz, Mayor of Sanem, broke ground for the new Biotech 3 building on Campus Belval, in the presence of a university delegation and the developers of the building. The Biotech 3, opening scheduled for 2026, will foster interdisciplinary research and…

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UniGR-CBS remporte le Prix Interrégional de la Recherche

A l’issue de la Conférence interministérielle de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche de la Grande Région qui s’est tenue à Metz le 25 novembre 2022, l’UniGR-Center for Border Studies a obtenu la première place du Prix interrégional de la recherche pour le projet « Centre européen de compétences et de ressources en études sur les frontières ».…

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Luxembourgish and Computational Linguistics

Christoph Purschke is the guest of the latest episode of Scilux, a podcast dedicated to research and technological changes in Luxembourg. He talks about the role of digital methods in the Humanities and the development of language technological solutions for Luxembourgish.

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Engaging with WWII and the Holocaust via Gaming: Analytical Perspectives on Design and Reception

Lecture by Pieter van den Heede, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (NL) as part of the « History@Play » series.

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Citizen Science as Public History?

Keynote speech by Dr Mia Ridge, the British Library’s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections.

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Conference of Laurent Lafforgue (Fields Medal 2022)

What is an image?Abstract: Any way of capturing and processing images is based on a mathematical modelling of the idea of an image. In this talk, we will try to show that the renewal of geometry by Grothendieck’s theory of toposes allows to conceive new modellings of images and to raise the question of the definition and…

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Children in armed conflicts need education and support

The UNESCO Chair in Human Rights of the University of Luxembourg co-hosted an international conference on November 21 and 22 in the presence of HRH the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, together with the Universities Network for Children in Armed Conflict, under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Luxembourg. The two-day conference focused…

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Session of Open MIS-Understandings: Difference

This Open MIS-Understandings session is dedicated to the notion of difference. Although of crucial importance for cultural and social studies, the concept of difference and its divers and shifting understandings in various scholarly fields are rarely systematically discussed. A conceptual reflection seems particularly important with regard to migration related research and public.The Open MIS-Understandings is…

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