Teaching and learning

We are excited to announce a pioneering new faculty position at the C²DH that will explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in the field of historical research and teaching.

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

Signature of a Memorandum of Understanding and a Master thesis agreement with the Institut Grand-Ducal.

Fidèles à leur vocation de transmission des valeurs, du savoir et d’ouverture vers de nouveaux horizons, les Centres Europe Direct de l’Université du Luxembourg, Lorraine Grand Est, Territoires Lorrains et CRISTEEL (France), ensemble avec leurs partenaires, invitent à une journée d'étude.

Corina Ostafi joins the 'Contemporary History of Luxembourg' research group as a Transnational Scholar in Residence.

The C²DH is co-organising the Spring School on Web Archives for early scholars (PhD or Master students), which takes place on 23 & 24 April in Paris.

Producing accessible, interactive, and engaging history.

The EUROPAST Summer School will take place from 1 to 4 July 2024 at the C²DH. It aims to gather scholars interested in the contribution of digital tools and methods to the creation, production, and analysis of public historical narratives.

First summer school to be organised in the EUROPAST training programme led by the C²DH.

The Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, the C²DH, Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre, the International Federation for Public History, and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to participate in the sixth Public History Summer School to be held in hybrid format.

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

New book edited by Michelle Margolis, Amalia S. Levi, Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup and Gerben Zaagsma. 

Inaugural colloquium / Iнавгураційний колоквіум. 1st of August 2022 / 1 серпня 2022

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.

The Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, Poland, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg (C²DH), Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre, the International Federation for Public History, and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to participate in the fifth Public History Summer School to be held in hybrid format (on-site and on-line), 6–10 June 2022.

Former C²DH PhD candidate Vitus Sproten’s thesis on the history of free radios in the Netherlands, Belgium and North Rhine-Westphalia wins the ‘excellent thesis award’ granted by the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences.

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.

Traitement et analyse des déclarations d’arrivée des étrangers au Luxembourg à travers les archives de la commune de Dudelange, par le biais de l’utilisation de l’outil de l’interprétation et visualisation des données Nodegoat.

Visiting Research Fellow, Nicole Basaraba, examined how historians and anthropologists can remix industrial history into a mobile application designed for public engagement.

During the summer semester we co-taught a course called The Recurated Museum, which explored the evolving role of museums in digital spaces. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic mid-semester and the subsequent explosion of movements like #MuseumAtHome and #CultureChezNous, we directly confronted many of the ideas we featured in class in a way that we could not have previously imagined.