Thinkering

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

The Rust & Research Team, consisting of four doctoral candidates working at the C²DH, was awarded the Thinkering Grant earlier this year to develop a card game based on time travelling through the Luxembourg University campus of Belval. Since then, our in-house game creators have been hard at work.

Recording of the lecture by Dr. Mina Ibrahim at the C²DH on 22 October 2024.

Historesch Gesinn is a platform that aims to build a bridge between researchers and the general public. It has now been enriched with an “Identify” feature.

Dive into our newest lesson on Ranke.2 designed to revolutionize your approach to Wikipedia as a born-digital source for historical research.

Joint lecture Series “ from the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).

From September 3 to 6, the C²DH at the University of Luxembourg, the headquarters of the IFPH, hosted over 300 public historians.

The “Dancing Esch” research project studies the festive sociabilities of the Luxembourgish mining basin during the 1920-1980. It focuses on popular balls in Esch-sur-Alzette, a town shaped by the mining and steel industry.

Recording of the conference with Alban Leveau-Vallier on Creativy and AI (12 June 2024).

From 6 to 8 June 2024 in Lviv (Ukraine), Andreas Fickers participated in a conference about collecting and archiving materials about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

What exactly does the Impresso project want to achieve with its research objectives in Natural language processing, design and history? What are the technical, conceptual and methodological challenges we face? How can we facilitate secure access to data with respect to copyright restrictions? These questions stood at the core of the first on-site Impresso workshop with partners which took place on 25 and 26 April 2024 at EPFL Lausanne.

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.

Ein zweitägiger Workshop zur Nachnutzung digitalisierter historischer Zeitungen und Zeitschriften fand am 13. und 14. Mai 2024 in Darmstadt statt.

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.

The 31. SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF THE ART OF MAGIC took place from 25 to 28 April 2024 at the University of Luxembourg with the support of the C²DH. If Forum Z takes history beyond the university's walls, this was an opportunity to bring non-academic research within its walls.

Time travelling on the Belval campus through an innovative new card game.

The ‘lovó’ project aims to use oral history and art to put forward several voices of Portuguese speaking grandmothers who live in the city of Esch sur Alzette and have made this place their home.

The conference organized by the U-CORE project took place at the University of Luxembourg, 26-27 March 2024 and hosted UNDIPUS-scholars from three German universities, four disciplines and five projects.

This guide offers a method to develop more collaborative public projects on the history of cities, towns, neighborhoods, with local communities.