Projects

The project combines the theoretical aspects of historical, historiographical, linguistic and literary studies with digital tools and methods for text analysis and visualisation to analyse scale variations as manifested in historical discourse. Two types of corpora will be used: historiographical (historical writings that blend micro and global...

'The history of justice in Luxembourg – HISTJUST' is a research project in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and the National Archives. It aims to cover 200 years of justice history in Luxembourg by producing a virtual exhibition.

'Populärkultur transnational - Europa in den langen 1960er Jahren' - This interdisciplinary research group composed of members of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), the Institute for History at the University of Luxembourg and Saarland University will investigate transnational transfers of popular culture in...

Resistance and dissent in former socialist Europe 1945-1989 constitutes a remarkable chapter of Europe’s recent past, which not only informs in a decisive way the identities of post-socialist societies, but has also reshaped the continent as a whole and still provides an important reference for contemporary social movements worldwide. The main...

The transmedia documentary “A Colônia Luxemburguesa” is designed to offer an interactive experience and a journey of discovery of the so-called Colônia Luxemburguesa, exploring a century of common industrial, cultural and social heritage. Supported by the C²DH, Samsa Film, and the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel...

The projects marks the centenary of BGL BNP Paribas in Luxembourg with a virtual exhibition tracing the bank’s history.

In 2017, POST Luxembourg celebrated its 175th anniversary. The project aims to trace the institution’s history from its early days as the state-owned Postal Administration to its current status as the country’s largest private employer, through a virtual exhibition and a PhD thesis.

The aim of the project “Impresso: Media monitoring of the past. Mining 200 years of historical newspapers” is to link digitised corpora of newspapers from Switzerland, Luxembourg, France and Germany and to develop new methods to analyse them. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). See the impresso website for...

This project on the history of Russian emigration to Luxembourg in the 20th and 21st centuries looks at the diversity and fragmentation of the Russian diaspora in the country.

The Digital History & Hermeneutics Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) is a four-year interdisciplinary research and training programme funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) based on the concept of “digital hermeneutics”. This is defined as the critical and self-reflexive use of digital tools and technologies, the testing of...

This project examines the impact of the US policy of containment on the European integration process, specifically in the Benelux countries, and the role that US military spending (to support containment) had on European integration from 1948 to 1960. More specifically, the project sheds light on how the large-scale early Cold War American...

The tri-national doctoral school is organised jointly by the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne (Prof. Hélène Miard-Delacroix), Saarland (Prof. Dietmar Hüser) and Luxembourg (Prof. Andreas Fickers). The project is supported by the Franco-German University. www.docteuropa.eu

The PhD project investigates the introduction of banking supervision in Luxembourg and the subsequent evolution of the regulatory framework in light of the emergence of the international financial centre in the country. Particular attention will be paid to the supervisory agency’s intermediary role between the financial sector and the state.

The main focus of the project 'The power of non-powers: An archival analysis of the reaction to, and influence of, the Benelux nations on American financial intervention in Europe and its role in early Cold War European security strategy (1948-1960)' is how American military financial intervention affected and reflected US views on the European...

The BLIZAAR interdisciplinary research project (combining computer science, history and biology) develops new visualisation techniques for the exploration of multimedia document collections. It is funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and the French National Research Agency (ANR). http://blizaar.list.lu/doku.php

Ranke.2 is a teaching platform on digital source criticism developed by the C²DH. The objective is to show how source criticism can be applied to digitised sources, and to explore the benefits and limitations of digital technology and reliable and authentic sources of knowledge. The idea is to create a visually attractive and playful...

The digital online exhibition focuses on the period of the First World War in Luxembourg and includes material from some of the major local museums, archives and cultural institutions. A wide range of multimedia features are employed to engage a broad base of users with varying interests and degrees of expertise. The platform offers four...

In the digital age, do archives still have the the same appeal? This project seeks to analyse the digital transformation of historians’ intimate, tangible relationship with archives by developing an online collaborative book. http://www.gout-numerique.net

Shaping a digital memory platform on migration: a public history project on Italian and Portuguese migration memories. https://memorecord.uni.lu/

The project unravelled the different path dependencies that hampered the introduction of head-related stereophony, a 3D sound reproduction technology, during the 1970s and early 1980s. Project findings were presented at international conferences, in several articles, and via a radio play. https://binauralrecording.wordpress.com