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Envisioning the Future of the Past Together. Future Directions in the History of Technology

Envisioning the Future of the Past Together. Future Directions in the History of Technology

This presentation aimed to highlight new and future challenges in the history of technology (related to new "values", topics, missing narratives, digital and public history...)

19 September 2024


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Surviving Transformation. Technological progress in the (post)socialist steel industry in the GDR 1985-1995

Surviving Transformation. Technological progress in the (post)socialist steel industry in the GDR 1985-1995

The dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in 1989/91 led to a significant decline in East German steel production and the closure of many plants, mainly due to low productivity rates and technological deficits compared to new international competitors. However, the Maxhütte Unterwellenborn in Thuringia managed to endure this period, largely by adapting Western technology. First, a technologically advanced rolling mill was installed at the site by the Belgian Cockerill Sambre in 1985, followed by the acquisition and modernisation by Luxembourg’s ARBED group in 1992.

19 September 2024


Nicolas Arendt
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Data Modeling and CMDI standard

Data Modeling and CMDI standard

The presentation is an introduction into the metadata standard CDMI / CLARIN used in the born-digital interview collections in Oral History

18 September 2024


Inna Ganschow
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Wikipedia as a source of historical knowledge: applying digital source criticism

Wikipedia as a source of historical knowledge: applying digital source criticism

13 September 2024


Petros Apostolopoulos
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Keynote lecture: When Literacy Goes Digital: Rethinking the Ethics and Politics of Digitisation

Keynote lecture: When Literacy Goes Digital: Rethinking the Ethics and Politics of Digitisation

In recent years, the critical turn in digital humanities has sparked numerous discussions about digital literacy in the discipline of history. While critical work has focused on data, tools, and the skills that historians need in the current digital age, questions remain about the broader contours of digital literacy and the multiple meanings that could be attributed to it.

12 September 2024


Gerben Zaagsma
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Thinkering with Old Media Technologies: Hands-on History as Experimental System of Historical Knowledge Production

Thinkering with Old Media Technologies: Hands-on History as Experimental System of Historical Knowledge Production

12 September 2024


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Between modernization and closure: Deindustrialization in Luxembourg and Workers' Experiences in the 'Anti Crisis Division' 1975-1985

Between modernization and closure: Deindustrialization in Luxembourg and Workers' Experiences in the 'Anti Crisis Division' 1975-1985

9 September 2024


Zoé Konsbruck
  • Public history
Article
Public history and Web history: singular and collective experiences, uses and memories

Public history and Web history: singular and collective experiences, uses and memories

At the intersection of Digital History, History of the Digital, and Public History, this panel, organised and moderated by Valérie Schafer and consisting of four presentations, aims to explore the connections between public history and web history. It particularly delves into issues related to memories, legacies, as well as the intertwining of individual and collective experiences that shape the early days of the Web and contemporary practices.

5 September 2024


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Teaching digital public history skills to the publics

Teaching digital public history skills to the publics

5 September 2024


Sofia Papastamkou, Tugce Karatas
Article
Gendering European History through Oral History: Pioneering Women in Luxembourg International Relations

Gendering European History through Oral History: Pioneering Women in Luxembourg International Relations

After the Second World War, as Luxembourg abandoned its neutrality and engaged in international multilateralism and European integration, it adopted a new foreign policy that enabled women to embark on careers related to international relations, as Members of the European Parliament, of the Commission, or as technocrats and experts.

4 September 2024


Elena Danescu, François Klein
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Crisis and Resilience in building an Integrated Europe: Soft Power Lessons from Luxembourg

Crisis and Resilience in building an Integrated Europe: Soft Power Lessons from Luxembourg

The history of European integration after the Second World War is characterized by a crisis-led policy-making process in which the small states and their leadership have played from the outset a critical role.

3 September 2024


Elena Danescu
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
From the Archives to the Citizens: Physicalizing Historical Data for Access and Public Engagement

From the Archives to the Citizens: Physicalizing Historical Data for Access and Public Engagement

Custom physical representations offer innovative ways to explore and understand historical data. This project used 1922 census data from Brill Street in Esch-sur-Alzette, applying a human-centred approach to visualize household and inhabitant variables, to create an interactive experience that connected today's residents of the street and town with the street's history.

3 September 2024


Aida Horaniet Ibanez, Daniel Richter
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Machine Learning to Read Historical Media

Machine Learning to Read Historical Media

1 September 2024


Marten Düring
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Der trügerische Blick auf den Anderen. Die Beziehungen zwischen Siebenbürger Sachsen und Luxemburgern in der Zwischenkriegszeit

Der trügerische Blick auf den Anderen. Die Beziehungen zwischen Siebenbürger Sachsen und Luxemburgern in der Zwischenkriegszeit

1 September 2024


Philippe Blasen
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Navigating through Blue and Green Space – Marseille’s Conception of Parks and the Ocean in the Early 1970s

Navigating through Blue and Green Space – Marseille’s Conception of Parks and the Ocean in the Early 1970s

1 September 2024


Eliane Schmid
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Layering Public Park Histories: Using GIS to Uncover Socio-Spatial Inclusion and Exclusion in Post-war Germany and the U.S.

Layering Public Park Histories: Using GIS to Uncover Socio-Spatial Inclusion and Exclusion in Post-war Germany and the U.S.

This paper proposes a lens of analysis for studying the history of public urban parks as spaces that fostered specific codes of conduct. The two case studies of post-war public urban park development in Richmond, Virginia (United States) and Hamburg (Germany) exemplify restoration ideas and ideals implemented by urban planners, politicians, and residents. This paper focuses on two historical contexts, which launched radical structural changes throughout the built environment in each case study.

1 September 2024


Eliane Schmid
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Making objects speak. Experimental media archaeology, object biographies, and transmedia storytelling

Making objects speak. Experimental media archaeology, object biographies, and transmedia storytelling

28 August 2024


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Digital Archival Literacy and Historical Research Practices

Digital Archival Literacy and Historical Research Practices

An Interactive Panel Discussion on History, Technology, and the Transformation of the Archive, convened by Milan van Lange and Gerben Zaagsma.

22 August 2024


Gerben Zaagsma
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Infrastructuring public history: When participation deals with the past

Infrastructuring public history: When participation deals with the past

In this paper, we relate participatory design (PD) scholarship with public history (PH) research, deepening the understanding of the relationship of PD with history, focusing on "history with PD". The latter refers to when history itself is explicitly the object of participation, and we discuss it by presenting a secondary analysis of a PH project, HistorEsch, conducted through the conceptual lens of infrastructuring. In this way, we show how PD and PH practices consider the past of a place and how they relate to public formation, intermediation, and proliferation.

11 August 2024


Thomas Cauvin
  • Public history
Article
Using kiara to Improve Research Transparency and Support Digital Literacy in Historical Research

Using kiara to Improve Research Transparency and Support Digital Literacy in Historical Research

This poster will introduce DHARPA (the Digital History Advanced Research Accelerator project) and its innovative data orchestration tool, kiara, demonstrating its applications for digital history through the research projects of three associated PhD students, exemplifying its application in practical research. It also aims to demonstrate the software’s ability to formalise research transparency and critical reflection of humanities datasets.

8 August 2024


Luca Federico Cerra, Eliane Schmid
Article

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