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Innovating history

The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is the University of Luxembourg’s third interdisciplinary research centre, focusing on high-quality research, analysis and public dissemination in the field of contemporary Luxembourgish and European history. It promotes an interdisciplinary approach with a particular focus on new digital methods and tools for historical research and teaching.

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Social inequalities in Luxembourg?

This Forum Z looks at the concept of social inequality and how social status affects the realities of life in Luxembourg. Alongside a panel of experts, social education and pedagogy students will develop unorthodox suggestions to tackle these issues and encourage thinking outside the box.
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25 October 2018 to 26 October 2018

Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice

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.
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"Contemporary history in the digital era" study day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018): Challenges facing history in the digital age, a new “allure of the archives”?

The aim of the “Contemporary history in the digital era – sources, methodologies and criticism” day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018), the result of a partnership between the Universities of Lausanne and Luxembourg, the infoclio.ch website and the International Association of Contemporary History of Europe (IACHE), was to encourage collective reflection on the role of technological innovation in historical research, especially its influence on the historian’s relationship with primary sources.
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20 September 2018

CfP: Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age

The Tensions of Europe conference is organised biennially by an interdisciplinary community of scholars who study the shaping of Europe through the lens of technology and material culture. The 9th edition of the conference will be organised by the C²DH around the theme ‘Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age.

23 May 2018

Memorecord – a memory harvest

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.

9 April 2018

Virtual exhibition 'Éischte Weltkrich : Remembering the Great War in Luxembourg'

The virtual exhibition developed by the C²DH retraces key aspects of the history and memory of the First World War in Luxembourg.

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Conférences et événements organisés dans le cadre de l'exposition "Être d'ailleurs en temps de guerrre (14-18)"

25 September 2018

Conférences et événements organisés dans le cadre de l'exposition "Être d'ailleurs en temps de guerrre (14-18)"

L'exposition «Être d’ailleurs en temps de guerre (14-18). Étrangers à Dudelange / Dudelangeois à l’étranger» est une réalisation conjointe du Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines (CDMH) et du Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). Elle est ouverte au public du 29 mars au 9 décembre 2018 dans les locaux du CDMH à Gare-Usines, Dudelange et accompagnée par un programme d'événements et de conférences.