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The book tells about the Russian Orthodox community in Luxembourg, which exists since 1929. The historical overview covers the path of the White emigration through Eastern Europe to the Grand Duchy, the establishment of the Russian colony in Mertert and Wiltz, and the renovation of the parish after the church was built in 1982.

The aim of the Bachelor's thesis is to examine how national socialist principles about human reproduction and "racial purity" impacted the female inmates in the penal institution in Saarbrücken, Germany. Over 200 personal files of German women accused of illegal abortion were examined for this study. The thesis also elaborates on conceptions of womanhood, sexuality and medical misconceptions as well as the impact of the social strata of the affected women.

Die deutschen Einwanderer prägten Saint Petersburg seit der Gründung der Stadt am Anfang des 18. Jh. Im Ersten Weltkrieg erlebte deren Gemeinde starke Diskriminierung, was zur Auswanderung der Deutschen führte. Jedoch die deutsche Schule (die erste Schule der Stadt überhaupt) gibt es auch heute, 300 Jahre später.

This contribution looks into nationalization and education in European borderlands inthe early post-World War II period. Belonging to Belgium and Poland, respectively, inthe interwar years, the Eupen – St. Vith – Malmedy and the East-Upper Silesia regionscame under German rule during World War II. Returned to the Belgian and Polishnation-states once the war was over, the regions experienced a pronounced upheavalin the population profile as a result of population transfers and reorientations ineducation curricula.

Des bases de données au « data déluge » actuel, Serge Abiteboul se passionne depuis plus de trente ans pour un domaine qui ne cesse d’évoluer et de nous confronter à de nouveaux défis, techniques, mais aussi sociétaux. Il a reçu en 2013 le prix Milner de la Royal Society et vient d’achever le projet Webdam sur la gestion des données, pour lequel il avait été lauréat en 2008 d’une bourse ERC.

AXES, Access for Audiovisual Archives, is a research project developing tools for new engaging ways to interact with audiovisual libraries, integrating advanced audio and video analysis technologies. The presented prototype is targeted at academic researchers and journalists. The tool allows them to search and retrieve video segments through metadata, audio analysis, as well as visual concepts and similarity searches. Presented here is a user-based vision on the research-oriented tool provided by AXES.