Thinkering

Five years C²DH – Five ways of innovating and sharing history.

On 24-25 March, the C²DH welcomed archivists and digital humanists to discuss collections informing the history of cross-border cooperation in the Greater Region.

Webinaire du Dr. Claudine Marissal (EUI) dans le cadre de "FLUXUS – Série de conférences au sujet des migrations et des frontières dans l’espace de la Grande Région" (13 décembre 2021).

Impressions of building a community around people working on the digitization of historical ‘egodocuments’ using Transkribus.

Les 5 et 6 juillet 2021 Le Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), Université du Luxembourg, et le Centre National de Litérature (CNL) ont organisé ensemble deux journées internationales d’étude sur le thème « Déposséder – dépossédé ».

This Hard Minett Land – Eine besondere Entdeckungsreise durch Luxemburgs Süden.

During this international online symposium, scholars, museum and archives professionals, heritage and other public history practitioners discussed if and how multiple and sometimes conflicting historical narratives can coexist in museums.

An international conference on “Strategies of Blockade. Access to Archive Records in France and Germany in an International Perspective” took place in January 2022 in Paris. Researchers from the C²DH presented the current archive situation in Luxembourg and its impact on research in contemporary history.

Report of the WARLUX workshop from 14 October 2021.

Aufzeichnunng des Webinars mit Machteld Venken vom 24. November 2021.

The international workshop “Histories of Maintenance and Repair” brought together philosophers, anthropologists and historians of technology to discuss the implications of our repair studies.

LUX:PLORATIONS is one of the activities promoted by DESCOM (Doctoral Education in Science Communication), an educational project in science communication that aims at supporting interactions between academia and the public. A first volume had been released in Autumn 2020.

Together with students, the WARLUX team researches the personal side of the history of Luxembourgers, born between 1920 and 1927, who were enrolled into German services during the Second World War. To uncover the individual experiences of these men, women and families, the team of WARLUX collects ego documents and personal interviews of this generation. As one of the last surviving witnesses, Madame Jacoby-Sheehan welcomed Dr Nina Janz and Cristina Sobral to talk about her war experience.

From comic to radio and back. The process of research as a media crossover experience.

HistorEsch is the overarching name for several public history projects that will be organised between 2021-2022 to actively involve the residents of Esch-sur-Alzette in the production of history.

Recording of the FLUXUS webinar by Isis Luxenburger, held on 14 July 2021.

Wartime regimes are more than simple top-down structures of terror and coercion between the occupier and the occupied or between the warring state and its population. Existing administrations, networks and functional elites took on complex roles, often adapting to local circumstances. Administrative authorities and personnel were constantly interacting with the population regarding everyday affairs. Studying the responses of administrations to the World Wars could enrich our understanding of contemporary history.

On 17 and 18 June 2021, the C²DH has hosted an international hybrid workshop. This event was organised as part of the research project “Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age: Sounds, Images, Ecologies, Practices and Materialities in Space and Time”. Completed and ongoing projects were presented that shed more light on various aspects of industrial heritage making and digital public history.

This virtual museum is dedicated to Russian migration in Luxembourg since the late 19th century.

Lorella Viola and Machteld Venken (C²DH) organised the panel series “Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age: Theories, Concepts and Methods” at the International Migration Research Network Annual Conference (IMISCOE) on 7-9 July 2021 at the University of Luxembourg. The aim of the panel series was to explore how digital technologies have impacted migration history research.