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Web Materialities

Web Materialities

Although Web development was driven by a conceptual repertoire of dematerialisation, of eliminating borders between “Netizens” and ensuring the independence of cyberspace (John Perry Barlow), in the 1990s the accessibility of the Web was largely subject to material challenges associated with infrastructures, equipment, Internet billing and regulation. They were also linked with groups of technicians and communities of practice, the development of ISPs, the acquisition of equipment or the use of cyber cafés.

3 December 2021


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Pan Am and Socialist Romania: Flying from New York to Bucharest in the 1970s

Pan Am and Socialist Romania: Flying from New York to Bucharest in the 1970s

2 December 2021


Adelina Stefan
Article
What is the Public of Public History? Between the Public Sphere and Public Agency

What is the Public of Public History? Between the Public Sphere and Public Agency

Public history constitutes a historical field, it includes several related journals, membership organisations, research centres, undergraduate and graduate programs all over the world. Most importantly, Public History has been marked by growing historiography and an increasing public interest in history. However, there is a lack of research on the most important constituent element of Public History, the ‘public’. The aim of this paper is to shed light on how Public History has approached the public in the last four decades.

1 December 2021


Petros Apostolopoulos
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Histoire de la construction européenne et mise en données du monde

Histoire de la construction européenne et mise en données du monde

This article investigates the opportunities and risks that the datafication of primary sources – i.e. not only their digitization but also their transformation into statistical material that can be tabulated – creates for the history of European integration. It uses cases of online digital libraries to show the consequences of digitization policy choices on the way historians can analyse these sources and, as a consequence, write history.

1 December 2021


Frédéric Clavert
Article
Compte rendu de Dirk Rochtus, Naar de hel met Hitler

Compte rendu de Dirk Rochtus, Naar de hel met Hitler

1 December 2021


Christoph Brüll
Article
Chicken and Egg: Reporting from a Datathon Exploring Datasets of the COVID-19 Special Collections

Chicken and Egg: Reporting from a Datathon Exploring Datasets of the COVID-19 Special Collections

This report is the first in a short series of WARCnet papers which aim to provide feedback on an internal datathon conducted by Working Group 2 of the WARCnet project. It explores the creation of transnational merged datasets and corpora, based on seed lists, derived data and metadata provided by several web archiving institutions. The report highlights our first explorations of specially curated COVID web archives, in order to prepare an in-depth exploration of the issues, challenges, limitations and opportunities afforded by these heterogeneous datasets.

1 December 2021


Valérie Schafer
Article
Le silence est d'or

Le silence est d'or

1 December 2021


Muriel van Ruymbeke
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Presenter: BE/LU/DE/FR Borderlands and Veterans after the First World War

Presenter: BE/LU/DE/FR Borderlands and Veterans after the First World War

30 November 2021


Machteld Venken
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre. History of borderlands as an alternative history of Europe

Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre. History of borderlands as an alternative history of Europe

29 November 2021


Machteld Venken
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
L'Est, l'Ouest et l'Europe (dés)unie

L'Est, l'Ouest et l'Europe (dés)unie

Depuis trois décennies, les PECO sont devenus acteurs à part entière dans l’équation euro-atlantique. Ces dernières années - marquées par une série de crises, dont la pandémie du Covid-19 - ont fait surgir des dissonances profondes entre l’Est et l’Ouest en matière de liberté, de justice et de démocratie qui fragilisent le projet européen. Mais quelle est l’origine de cette incompréhension ? Comment se manifeste-t-elle ? Que faut-il faire pour la dissiper ? On tentera quelques éléments de réponse à ces questions légitimes.

27 November 2021


Elena Danescu
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
The Historian as Archivist: Crowdsourced Corona Collections

The Historian as Archivist: Crowdsourced Corona Collections

26 November 2021


Tizian Zumthurm
  • Public history
Article
Comprendre les archives du Web. Un défi évolutif et permanent.

Comprendre les archives du Web. Un défi évolutif et permanent.

"Organisé dans le cadre d’un projet soutenu par le GIS CollEx-Persée et porté par le Service Commun de Documentation de l’Université de Lille et la Bibliothèque nationale de France, le cycle d’ateliers du Réseau de Partenaires pour l’exploration et l’analyse de données numériques (ResPaDon) propose de

26 November 2021


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Wissenschaft heißt, Unsicherheit erzeugen, nicht Bekanntes zu reproduzieren…  Ein Interview mit Andreas Fickers, Direktor des Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) in Luxemburg

Wissenschaft heißt, Unsicherheit erzeugen, nicht Bekanntes zu reproduzieren… Ein Interview mit Andreas Fickers, Direktor des Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) in Luxemburg

Seit 2016 ist Andreas Fickers Direktor des Luxemburg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) an dessen Konzeption, Aufbau und Organisation er maßgeblich beteiligt war. Das C2DH hat in den wenigen Jahren seiner Existenz eine ungeheure Strahlkraft weit über den europäischen Raum hinaus erreicht und gilt hinsichtlich seiner Forschungsleistung und -kompetenz im Bereich der Digital- und der Public History als sogenannte Leuchtturm-Institution.

25 November 2021


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Presenter: Peripherien im Zentrum. Schulbildung im Grenzland im Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit

Presenter: Peripherien im Zentrum. Schulbildung im Grenzland im Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit

24 November 2021


Machteld Venken
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Pauvre Luxembourg

Pauvre Luxembourg

20 November 2021


Denis Scuto
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Luxembourg Economy: In the Aftermath of the Pandemic

Luxembourg Economy: In the Aftermath of the Pandemic

The series of measures, which helped to mitigate the short-term social and economic consequences of the crisis while paving the way for effective medium- and long-term strategies, entailed spending of approximately €2,050m. (an increase of 21.9% compared with 2019). In terms of structural improvements to SMEs, which underpin the Luxembourg economy, capital grants increased by €142.7m. compared with 2019, while investment expenditure rose by €301.8m. (26.2% higher than in 2019).

18 November 2021


Elena Danescu
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

17 November 2021


Machteld Venken
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Scientific Models, Computer Simulations, and Agent-Based Models. Hermeneutic and Analytic Perspectives.

Scientific Models, Computer Simulations, and Agent-Based Models. Hermeneutic and Analytic Perspectives.

This work is about some of the philosophical problems that arise in the context of agent-based modeling. Agent-based models differ from other modeling techniques primarily in terms of the way they represent their target system. They are a comparatively novel kind of computer simulation and are used to investigate complex systems. In recent decades, agent-based models have been used in disciplines such as economics, archaeology, sociology, and ecology. Typical target systems of agent-based models include markets, foragers, opinion dynamics, and predator-prey interactions.

17 November 2021


Thomas Durlacher
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Le siège de la BGL - une banque et son architecture​ ​

Le siège de la BGL - une banque et son architecture​ ​

L'histoire architecturale du siège de la Banque Générale du Luxembourg (BGL), est intimement liée à l’histoire urbanistique de la ville de Luxembourg. Le choix du quartier, du boulevard ou de la rue dans lequel la Banque va s'implanter a toute sa signification et n’est pas dû au hasard. Les choix architecturaux, l’emplacement d’un siège deviennent-ils alors des éléments qui contribuent à façonner l'identité d'une banque ? Ou est-ce que les mutations urbaines et les évolutions du secteur bancaire influencent-elles le style de la construction ?

16 November 2021


Victoria Mouton, Cécile Duval, Marco Gabellini
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Liewensgeschichten aus dem Minett

Liewensgeschichten aus dem Minett

13 November 2021


Julia Harnoncourt
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article

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