Projects

The CD-ROM is a very first clear materialisation of media convergence, a key step in digital storage and a path towards digitalisation in the 1990s. It perfectly illustrates the high hopes for multimedia and digitalisation but also the shortening life cycles of innovation and the dynamics of media convergence. Despite a plethora of sources and...

The project is part of the Collaborative Research Center 1187 “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen. DIGMEDIA acts as subproject A01, led by Sebastian Gießmann in Germany and Valérie Schafer in Luxembourg. We pursue together a historical praxeology of digitally networked media that foregrounds specific techno-economic...

U-CORE researches the heuristic gesture of collecting, preserving, analysing and disclosing testimonies of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The project includes researchers from Luxembourg, Poland and Ukraine. Digital Humanities are a rapidly growing field of research predominantly occupied with the development and application of new...

impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past is an interdisciplinary research project which puts forward the vision of a comprehensive connection between media archives across languages and media types. Starting in 2023, we will build a Western European historical media corpus consisting of newspaper and radio sources, use machine-learning techniques...

Psychiatry in the second half of the 20th century was characterised by a number of important changes. At the same time, Western Europe made the decisive shift from an emigration to an immigration society, even if the migration only became positive in the early 1960s. This research project intends to explore the field emerging at the intersection...

‘Radio Luxembourg - The station that changed our world’ is a transmedia documentary telling the fascinating stories of one of the world's most powerful radio stations, broadcast from one of the world's smallest nations. It explores Radio Luxembourg's various uses of power and its formative influence on many generations of listeners...

Vyshyvanka is the name of a traditional Ukrainian embroidered blouse. The VYSH project uses various artificial intelligence technologies to create embroidery designs for the stage costumes of the Luxembourg dance group Berehyni, which popularizes historical Ukrainian dances.

Historesch Gesinn is a 3-year project funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) to create a sustainable social hub where C²DH and Luxembourgish cultural institutions can engage with multiple publics about ongoing historical research. Alongside presenting ongoing historical research, the two main goals are to create an online...

Public history helps to engage citizens in the co-production and communication of the past while maintaining ethical and methodological standards, strengthening social cohesion, resilience, and democracy in a digital age. The aim of EUROPAST is to enhance the scientific excellence and research capacity of Vilnius University (VU) and strengthen...

The book series ‘Public History in European Perspectives’ offers a platform for public history, exploring its potential as an interdisciplinary field and a means of fostering and reflecting upon public engagement, dissemination and participatory practices in areas such as heritage-making, modes of display, and historical storytelling. The...

Since the 1970s, deindustrialisation has fundamentally changed Western societies. This project seeks to explore deindustrialisation in a systematic historical perspective and place it in wider political, economic, social and cultural contexts. Building on regionally focused studies, the project will examine the supraregional significance of...

“Deep Data Science of Digital History” (D4H) is an interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Unit funded through the FNR’s PRIDE programme, that focuses on multiple challenges at the intersection between the disciplines of history and data science and builds on the epistemological and methodological learnings of the interdisciplinary DTU...

TransARB aims to investigate the transnational transformation of the European steel industry during the last decades of the 20th century within the scope of the Luxembourgish ARBED company. It compares ARBED steel plants in Luxembourg and in Unterwellenborn in Thuringia in the former GDR and analyses both the changes in management strategies and...

BUREU aims to investigate how the interiors of EU office buildings (1950s-2000) affected the process of European integration on the level of everyday material and bureaucratic practices. Multidisciplinary in its approach, BUREU combines methods and insights from the fields of history, architecture and European integration studies. A...

Escher Kaffi is an experimental public history project funded by the C²DH’s Thinkering Grant to study how the cafés in Esch-sur-Alzette can provide insights in the transformations, old and new, of sociality in a (post)industrial city. The outcomes of the project are the creation of a physical and digital map that highlights the...

The Fondation luxembourgeoise pour la Mémoire de la Shoah and the C²DH have set themselves the task of building a digital Shoah Memorial as part of a research project that will last from 2022 to 2026. The Digital Shoah Memorial in Luxembourg is built in memory of people who lived in Luxembourg who were persecuted, who were victims of Nazi...

Letterboxes, representing shell companies, are an emblematic symbol for a form of international capitalism that has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years and serve as a focal point for international criticism of the Luxembourgish financial system. LETTERBOX is an innovative project that mixes recent questions in financial history with...

A collection of activities led by the C²DH and its staff in support of the Ukrainian research community. This includes, for example, reports about fellowships, workshops and conferences on the documentation and study of the Russo-Ukrainian war as well as collaborations, networking and training activities which target Ukrainian research...

More than 75 years after it ended, the Second World War remains a controversial and even emotional topic in Luxembourg. The virtual exhibition proposes a multimedia and multi-perspective presentation of the Occupation period and its consequences for Luxembourg. Furthermore, a PhD thesis, realised in the framework of the project, will focus on...

The COLUX project explores Luxembourg's colonial history – beyond the so-called decolonisation. The research project deals with Luxembourg overseas (especially in the Congo) as well as with the question of the impact in the metropole.