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Luxembourg Analysis

Luxembourg Analysis

With a long tradition of political stability and social democracy, a creative development model, skilled human capital and a culture of consensus, Luxembourg is at the forefront of Europe. Its main strategic challenge is how to achieve economic diversification while maintaining the sustainability of the Luxembourg social model. The country has embarked on the "third industrial revolution", with innovation as the main driver of sustainable growth and the University of Luxembourg as a major player.

1 December 2017


Elena Danescu
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
L'héritage intellectuel d'un précurseur: Alexandre Lamfalussy

L'héritage intellectuel d'un précurseur: Alexandre Lamfalussy

Banquier, penseur de la finance internationale et Européen convaincu, Alexandre Lamfalussy (1929-2015) est, sans conteste, l’un des architectes de l’euro. Dans ses jeunes années, il s’intéresse à l’intégration européenne et aux questions financières et monétaires. Lorsqu'il devient banquier, notamment au sein de la BRI (1976-1993), est l’un des premiers à alerter contre l’accumulation des dettes en Amérique latine et à préconiser une meilleure régulation internationale pour éviter les excès.

1 December 2017


Elena Danescu
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Generational Conflicts, the Spirit of ‘68 and Cultural Emancipation in the German Speaking Community of Belgium. A Historical Essay About the ‘73 Generation

Generational Conflicts, the Spirit of ‘68 and Cultural Emancipation in the German Speaking Community of Belgium. A Historical Essay About the ‘73 Generation

‘Changes were in the air’ – is perhaps the best way to describe the social mood at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. On the international stage, the gap between the post-war generation, known as the ‘baby boomers’ and the generation that had experienced World War II as adolescents or young adults came to light in the form of student protests, anti-war movements and new concepts of life. It is scarcely a coincidence that there were protests in eastern Belgium too at this time. What were the ‘young wild ones’ protesting against in the German speaking region of Belgium?

1 December 2017


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Locating and quantifying a transnational cultural object. Reims as a European hub for sports (1925-1940)

Locating and quantifying a transnational cultural object. Reims as a European hub for sports (1925-1940)

1 December 2017


Sebastien Moreau
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Maschinen, Massen und Metaphern. Visuelle Konstruktionen von Industriearbeit(ern) im Luxemburg der Zwischenkriegszeit.

Maschinen, Massen und Metaphern. Visuelle Konstruktionen von Industriearbeit(ern) im Luxemburg der Zwischenkriegszeit.

This paper examines images of industrial work(ers) as contributions to visual meaning-making. The selected examples illustrate the deployment of industrial work(ers) as a motif in a variety of artistic genres and media that circulated in interwar Luxembourg. The different depictions, which were distributed and promoted by different actors with different interests, show the industrial worker as affiliated with or a representative of a particular steel company, the industrial sector as a whole, the Luxembourg nation or the working class.

30 November 2017


Ira Plein
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Reflections on Europe. (with a commentary of Philipp Ther)

Reflections on Europe. (with a commentary of Philipp Ther)

30 November 2017


Machteld Venken
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Table ronde conclusive | Conclusive Round Table

Table ronde conclusive | Conclusive Round Table

29 November 2017


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
WWI and WWII Reparations and their Impact on European (Dis)Integration

WWI and WWII Reparations and their Impact on European (Dis)Integration

Due to the separation between the historical and legal fields which have examined the issue of WWII reparations, no generally accepted definition of their current status exists either in the historical, legal or political spheres. This lack of clarity has greatly contributed to this issue remaining unresolved until the present. In his talk, Spero Paravantes looks at the way the issue was used by the Big Three in their dealings with each other after WWII.

28 November 2017


Spero Paravantis
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Hybrid approaches to historical research: analysing the Anne Frank diaries with digital tools

Hybrid approaches to historical research: analysing the Anne Frank diaries with digital tools

This paper argues for a hybrid approach to historical research that combines ’traditional’ with digital hermeneutical approaches in a new practice of doing history. As the digital turn alters and affects all parts of the historical research process, this is a pressing challenge and need for all historians, not just for those engaged in ‘big data’ projects. Indeed, hybridity is, and should be, the new normal.

28 November 2017


Gerben Zaagsma
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Germany, Greece and Poland: The Complicated story of Reparations and European Integration

Germany, Greece and Poland: The Complicated story of Reparations and European Integration

28 November 2017


Spero Paravantis
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Presentation of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History – C2DH Doctoral Training Unit

Presentation of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History – C2DH Doctoral Training Unit

27 November 2017


Tim van der Heijden, Kaarel Sikk, Eva Andersen, Jakub Bronec, Marleen De Kramer, Thomas Durlacher, Antonio Fiscarelli, Jan Lotz, Sytze Van Herck, Christopher Morse, Shohreh Haddadan, Sam Mersch, Ekaterina Kamlovskaya
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies (2012-2015): How a Research Program Led to the Organization of Several Mainstream Exhibitions and How Collaborations with other Institutions Contributed

Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies (2012-2015): How a Research Program Led to the Organization of Several Mainstream Exhibitions and How Collaborations with other Institutions Contributed

24 November 2017


Tim van der Heijden
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Interview with Ian Grosvenor

Interview with Ian Grosvenor

Ian Grosvenor is Professor of Urban Education History at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, and director of the Voices of War & Peace Centre.

23 November 2017


Benjamin Zenner
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Interview
Hybrid Histories: Versuch einer kritischen Standortbestimmung der Mediengeschichte

Hybrid Histories: Versuch einer kritischen Standortbestimmung der Mediengeschichte

23 November 2017


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Lecture accompanying the screening of Bart Verstockt’s documentary Sylwester: Polish Soldiers and Ex-Combatants in Belgium. A Short History.

Lecture accompanying the screening of Bart Verstockt’s documentary Sylwester: Polish Soldiers and Ex-Combatants in Belgium. A Short History.

23 November 2017


Machteld Venken
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Konventionen und Tabus? Deutschlandbilder in Lüttich im langen 19. Jahrhundert

Konventionen und Tabus? Deutschlandbilder in Lüttich im langen 19. Jahrhundert

22 November 2017


Christoph Brüll
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Entre vérité et dire du vrai. Ein geschichtstheoretischer Grenzgang

Entre vérité et dire du vrai. Ein geschichtstheoretischer Grenzgang

This article reflects on the borderline between factual and fictional storytelling in history, arguing that the different narrative formats of historical storytelling are based on narrative conventions that play with rhetorical and stylistic strategies of authentification and objectivation.

22 November 2017


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Time to remix

Time to remix

18 November 2017


Denis Scuto
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
European Migrations Post WWII; Past, Present and Future?

European Migrations Post WWII; Past, Present and Future?

Dr Paravantes' presentation, " European Migrations post-WWII: Past, Present and Future, " will discuss the history of migrations and migration/refugee policy within the EU, from the beginning of the integration process and the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) until the present. The talk will focus on earlier migrations within Western Europe, the rules established to regulate internal and external migration, and the steps which the various iterations of the European Union and its individual members took to deal with them.

14 November 2017


Spero Paravantis
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Closing reflections: EHRI Workshop Engaging New Generations: The Holocaust and Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Age

Closing reflections: EHRI Workshop Engaging New Generations: The Holocaust and Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Age

9 November 2017


Gerben Zaagsma
  • Digital history & historiography
Article

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