Digital tools

The 6th DH Benelux Conference will take place on 11-13 September 2019 at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium. DH Benelux is an initiative that aims to further the collaboration between Digital Humanities activities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Who’s afraid of the Digital? This was the leading question of C²DH’s first Forum Z in 2019, organised by the Digital History Unit of the centre. Museum curators, schoolteachers, researchers and professional educators presented their projects in the House of Startups in Luxembourg City in the form of hands-on workstations followed by an round table discussing the merits of new digital projects with the audience in a casual atmosphere.

Interdisciplinary workshop on digital urban history organised by the C²DH.

Lecture by Sandra Gaudenzi (University of Westminster, University College of London).

This entry briefly describes how we generated English subtitles (using digital tools) for the binaural radio play "Glanz und Elend der Kunstkopf-Stereophonie" we produced in 2017.

Lecture by Melvin Wevers (KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam)

Lecture by Andrew Prescott, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow. The event launches the C²DH lecture series 'Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities'.

The new website gives an in-depth view of the DTU's activities and projects.

Le C²DH a participé à la 21e édition des Rendez-vous de l'Histoire qui s’est déroulée à Blois du 10 au 14 octobre 2018. Point de rencontre de nombreux historiens, chercheurs et de passionnés d'histoire, l’édition de cette année, avec plus de 600 tables rondes, ateliers, conférences, débats et projections de films, portait sur le thème de «la puissance des images».

In Munich, from 19 to 21 September 2018, a group of speech technologists, social scientists, linguists, computer scientists, oral historians and information scientists convened to explore the integration of digital tools in the workflow of scholars who work with interviews.

Le C²DH, l'Université Rennes 2 et l'Association des Archivistes français organisent le 14 novembre aux Archives Nationales (France, site de Pierrefitte-sur-Seine) une journée d'étude autour du livre en ligne, Le goût de l'archive à l'ère numérique.

Le C²DH sera présent à la 21e édition des Rendez-vous de l'histoire qui se déroulera à Blois du 10 au 14 octobre 2018 et aura pour thème: «la puissance des images».

Lecture by Sean Takats, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is organising a two day conference and workshop on occasion of the official launch of the Ranke.2 project, its teaching platform for Digital Source Criticism.

Du 28 mai au 5 juillet 2018, j'ai eu le plaisir de participer à l'école d'été de l'histoire numérique à Grenoble (France). L’université Grenoble-Alpes en collaboration avec la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme -Alpes et l'UMR Litt&Arts a organisé la seconde édition de l'École D’été Édition Numérique et Humanités Numériques (EDEEN).

Research seminar with Andreas Fickers and Tim Van der Heijden.

Research seminar with Kaarel Sikk, PhD student at C²DH.

Some time ago it suddenly hit us that it has been a while since we read an academic book or article in a physical format. This for the simple reason that we can retrace digital information much quicker — i.e. annotating a PDF, extracting highlighted text automatically with ZotFile or quickly looking up a specific word in a pdf document. A second realisation was that as PhD students in the field of digital history and hermeneutics these "small" digital aspects of a scholars life are almost never highlighted.

Memorecord is a digital public history project. This crowdsourcing experiment combines community participation and academic research to offer a new perspective on the history of migration in Luxembourg. The project makes use of new communication technologies to approach history in a collaborative way.

Can digital public history help us to reach a historiography that is closer to life?