Luxemburgische Zeitgeschichte

The new online exhibition WW2.lu explores Luxembourg's experiences during World War II using recent historiography and digital resources.

The U-CORE project is designing best practices for 21st-century oral history.

Presentation of Current Research Projects by Zoé Konsbruck and Nicolas Arendt.

Lecture by Natalia Otrishchenko, visiting researcher at the C²DH.

Research seminar with Philippe Blasen.

Research seminar with Inna Ganschow.

34th AEMI (Association of European migration institutions) conference.

From 10 to 26 June 2024, the 'Contemporary History of Luxembourg' (LHI) research group has the pleasure of welcoming Maxime Kaci as a Transnational Scholar in Residence.

How does one visualize the tragic past of the Hoheneck imprisoned forced laborers, a reality that remained unseen for years? Three German directors, Volker Schlecht, Max Mönch, and Alexander Lahl, took on this daunting task by conducting extensive oral history research and transforming their findings into the award-winning animation “Kaputt.”

Thoughts about the animation film "Mariupol. A Hundred Nights" by Sofiia Melnyk and Andrii Palatnyi portraying a young girl who loses her family and home in Mariupol following the Russian invasion in 2022.

Members of the research area Contemporary History of Luxembourg and participants of the Strand Colloquium for Digital and Transnational History had a workshop to assess the capabilities of the Chat Eluxemburgensia, an AI-powered chatbot designed to provide historical information in response to natural language queries. The workshop identified the chatbot's strengths in answering specific, structured questions about historical figures and events.