Thinkering

This conference, held on 20-21 April 2023, explored women's role in the European project launched after the Second World War.

The aim of the oral history programme about Luxembourg diplomacy, conducted by the C²DH with the support of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is to document the development of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Luxembourg’s foreign policy since the end of the Second World War.

This event series brings together different aspects and experts on topics related to digital cultural heritage.

Tropy is a digital tool designed specifically for managing and annotating digital images.

This Thinkering project draws upon Daniel Richter’s knowledge about the local history of Esch-sur-Alzette, Aida Horaniet Ibanez’s expertise in data visualization, and Joëlla van Donkersgoed’s experience in public engagement.

Report of the international conference held on 26-28 October 2022 at the University of Luxembourg.

Memory has its own pitfalls, and to provide a more tangible environment for remembering, it was decided to perform oral history interviews for the ongoing research about the “Schueberfouer” funfair on site at the fairground. The assumption was that the space of the “Schueberfouer” could trigger memories and reflections that would otherwise not emerge. However, navigating through a noisy present can prove challenging.

Cette table ronde a été l'occasion de discuter de l'usage de ChatGPT dans l'enseignement supérieur.

Escher Kaffi is an experimental public history project funded by the C²DH’s Thinkering Grant to study ordinary sociality in a (post)industrial city undergoing fast infrastructural, urbanistic, demographic, and cultural transformations.

A contribution on office culture by BUREU team member Marco Ninno.

This MA course focuses on transnational European history during the Cold War and its aftermath and is available as an Open Educational Resource.

Report of the workshop held on 23-25 November 2022 at the C²DH, University of Luxembourg.

The newly started research project BUREU has the purpose to develop a transnational and multidisciplinary framework for the analysis of EU administrative buildings.

In August 2022, I had the pleasure to participate in the conference of the International Federation for Public History at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Besides meeting colleagues and listening to exciting papers, I held a presentation as part of the panel Public History and the Political Uses of the Past. This blog post is based on my conference paper entitled “Polishing the Image of a Nation-State: Luxembourg and the Political Uses of the Past since the 1990s”.

Report of the international conference that took place on 8 & 9 September in the Science Center, Differdange.

On 9 and 10 June 2022, the C²DH hosted an international conference on the history of industrial regions.

As the C²DH celebrates its fifth anniversary, we asked one of our first PhD students, Max Kemman, about his memories of his time at the centre.

With "Framing Luxembourg:" Statec and the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History tell "a history of Luxembourg in statistics as well as a history of statistics in Luxembourg".

A short report of the 2nd ‘War Letters’ workshop in Belval, Luxembourg.

C²DH launches the new website #DHJewish - Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities, which offers a single access point to news, events, projects + more on the intersection of Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities.