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A collection of thematic ePublications on the European integration process from 1945 to 2014. An analysis of a range of subjects based on an extensive and contextualised selection of more than 25.000 relevant and enriched multimedia, multisource and multilingual documentary resources.

Was erzählt die Geschichte des Grenzraums über die deutsch-belgischen Beziehungen nach 1945? Wie wurde nach zwei Besatzungen innerhalb eines Vierteljahrhunderts Nachbarschaft organisiert und gelebt? Welche Rolle spielten die belgischen Soldaten im Nachkriegsdeutschland? Der Vortrag beantwortet diese Fragen, indem er die Geschichte der Grenzregion und ihrer Bewohner:innen auf verschiedenen Ebenen analysiert: dabei geraten sowohl die politischen und diplomatischen Rahmenbedingungen als auch die Lage „vor Ort“ in den Blick.

Das Forschungsprojekt „Gilbert Trausch“ entstand ein Jahr nach dem Tod des Historikers. Seine Kinder hatten sich an die Universität Luxemburg gewandt, um die Bibliothek ihres Vaters und seine schriftlichen Arbeitszeugnisse der Wissenschaft zugänglich zu machen. Dazu gehören Kopien, Notizen, Gliederungen, Querverweise, Korrespondenzen, Entwürfe und Manuskripte. Gilbert Trausch hatte fast 50 Jahre lang in seinem Wohnhaus eine umfangreiche wissenschaftliche Privatbibliothek zusammengestellt, die heute noch vollständig erhalten ist.

Exploring Video Games CD-ROMs: Curatorial Challenges and Historical Contextualisation and Significance The last presentation explores the diverse aspects of curating, accessing, and understanding the historical significance of CD-ROMs in the video game industry and history. We will employ as a case-study an upcoming public exhibition scheduled for Autumn 2025 within the frame of a two-day gaming convention. The project features retro-gaming while addressing critical knowledge goals.

The history of CD-ROMs has been largely unexplored and underestimated, nevertheless a few exceptions, notably within the realm of video games (Therrien, 2019). However, delving into this history allows to uncover the intricacy of technological and digital advancements, economic issues and new markets, or the evolving landscape of media convergence in the 90s. CD-ROMs also represent a pivotal moment in technological and digital history as a storage media, a gateway to immersive virtual worlds, or to the first Internet connections.

Roundtable : Jefferson Bailey, Ian Milligan, Rachael Samberg, Valérie Schafer and Matthew Weber

This article proposes a methodology for combining natural language processing techniques for diachronic analysis and linguistic linked open data models to detect and represent semantic change.

In this presentation, I explored the “Schobermesse” parade in Chicago from the perspective of how the Luxembourg-American community navigated integration into their new host country while pre-serving their cultural heritage in the 19th and 20th century. The study highlights how cultural practices, like parades, serve as dynamic spaces for identity negotiation and heritage continuity in migrant com-munities.

This chapter considers the presence, retrievability, and analysis relating to women, gender, and COVID-19 in web archives, based on research in the international “novel coronavirus IIPC collection”. It focuses on challenges raised by the huge IIPC collection regarding multilingualism, “big data”, access and searchability, silence and noise, duplicates and loss of information, and the use of the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) interface, developed by the Archives Unleashed Team.

This presentation retraces the state of the art and history of women in computing and computer science from the 40s to the current days. It analyses their evolution, issues of visibility and inclusion, the current actions in the field of ICT.

Enver Hoxha (1908–1985) was an international figure whose Cold War significance extended well beyond the borders of Albania. To many Maoists around the world his forty-one-year rule of Albania transformed the county into ‘the only socialist country in Europe.’ Throughout the Cold War, Radio Tirana broadcast in nineteen languages while Hoxha’s many books appeared in at least twenty-seven.

This paper is related to my current book project, which explores the history and genealogies of digital history, set within the broader context of the ways in which technology has shaped historical research practices and knowledge production since the late 19th century. My paper focuses on a key aspect: the circulation and diìusion of knowledge among transnational networks of computing historians, the ways in which these networks were constituted and their transformative inîuence on historical knowledge production.

En centrant son propos sur les archives numérisées et surtout nativement numériques, Valérie Schafer discutera trois enjeux liés à la question de l’attention. Tout d’abord elle interrogera les permanences et mutations de l’attention que le chercheur porte aux documents mais aussi aux données, notamment quand la lecture et l'analyse sont appuyés sur des outils computationnels et de lecture distante. Ces approches peuvent aussi renouveler les enjeux de représentativité, de participation, d’inclusion, ou encore influencer l’émotion et la curiosité suscitées par l’archive.

Événement proposée par le CDMH - Centre de documentation sur les migrations humaines (salle 2a) Avec Inna Ganschow, journaliste et universitaire spécialisée dans le domaine de l'histoire du Luxembourg et de l'histoire de l'URSS. L'ouvrage met en lumière la vie quotidienne et les conditions de travail des travailleuses forcées soviétiques au Luxembourg pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Conférence en allemand. Interprétation simultanée en français et en anglais.

The book “´No one cried, there were no more tears´. Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian Female Forced Laborers in Luxembourg during the Second World War from a Transnational Perspective”, published by capybarabooks and the C²DH, sheds light on the everyday life and working conditions of Soviet forced laborers in Luxembourg during the Second World War. How did they experience the hard times under the German occupation, and how did these experiences shape their later lives?

Participation to a panel organised by Mats Fridlund (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) : Towards Responsible DH: Practices of Critical and Caring DH (short presentation and discussion) Valérie Schafer explores how researchers can balance the objectives of historical documentation with ethical considerations in digital heritage research, particularly when dealing with personal data and born-digital materials.

Cette séance de séminaire est consacré aux enjeux de préservation, patrimonialisation, approche des CD-ROMs, en faisant une place particulière aux questions de conservation, d’archéologie des médias, de contextualisation et de lecture appuyées sur des cas d’études concrets.