Thinkering

On the 8 June, the C²DH (University of Luxembourg) and the Center for Digital Humanities (Perm State University, Russia) organised an international round table entitled “Different Cultures in Digital History”

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.

The international online symposium brought together scholars, museum professionals and heritage practitioners to discuss how participatory history is constructed, developed, and implemented in museums.

Dr. Piero E. Galloro, en tant que premier conférencier de la série FLUXUS, présente son travail «Immigration et représentations sociales. Approche socio-historique» en mettant l’accent sur l’exemple italien en France.

On 18 December 2020, the second workshop of the DEMA project - Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory - project took place at the C²DH. For this workshop, participants from various fields, including media history, art history, musicology, history of science, sensorial ethnography, contemporary composition and sound art were invited to share experiences on how to perform historical re-enactments and how experimental research can serve or operate in artistic practice.

Dronetv.lu is a plurilingual platform on the history of military, industrial and educational television.

Report of the Virtual Workshop organised on 5 March 2021 by the Gilbert Trausch research group at the University of Luxembourg.

There is more than just one East Berlin. People made very different experiences with the capital of the GDR. Hence there are also plenty of different memories of the East German capital. An exhibition on the history of East Berlin has to take these different perspectives into account and should be based on shared authority.

The C²DH (University of Luxembourg), the film production company Samsa Film, and the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel (CNA) are currently producing the transmedia documentary “A COLÔNIA LUXEMBURGUESA » by the Luxembourg-Brazilian director and historian Dominique Santana, with the support of the Film Fund Luxembourg and Esch2022. This transmedia project takes us to the core of the so-called Colônia Luxemburguesa and invites us to discover together a century of common industrial, cultural and social heritage.

The Temporary History Lab, set up in the Annexe22 pavilion in Esch-sur-Alzette from September to October 2020, was part of the research project “Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age”.

On 10 and 11 December 2020, the C²DH has hosted an online workshop. This event was organised as part of the research project “Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age: Sounds, Images, Ecologies, Practices and Materialities in Space and Time”. This workshop brought together academics from different countries to analyse the evolution of industrial cities during the 20th century.

The exhibition « Légionnaires » is the outcome of a collaboration between the C²DH and the Musée Dräi Eechelen, bringing together the results of a quinquennial investigation on the Luxembourgers in the French Foreign Legion.

The ongoing project WARLUX aims to study the biographies of young Luxembourgers, born between 1920 and 1927, who were drafted by the Nazi German authorities for the Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst) and the German Army (Wehrmacht).

Report of the international workshop held on 26 November 2020 with experts from European universities who have initiated public COVID-19 platforms to collect testimonies.

'Yes we care', a transversal research project which is part of the COST Action 'Who cares in Europe?'

Recording of the DTU online lecture with Hans Brandhorst on 17 December 2020.

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

Organised in the framework of the OPERAS-P project, the online workshop was held on 7 and 8 September 2020 with the aim of combining theoretical and practical perspectives on issues that are constantly developing as a result of the wide-ranging forms and aims of research infrastructures and the challenges facing digital governance.

This is a preview of the Timecode Indexing Module (TIM) presented during the 2020 Oral History Association Annual Meeting.

On 15 September, the C²DH organised a round table discussion with various national players who are maintaining collections documenting how Luxembourg’s residents have experienced COVID-19.