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White Paper of the ModelSEN Workshop (April 2022)

White Paper of the ModelSEN Workshop (April 2022)

In April 2022, scholars from a variety of different disciplines and training met in Berlin for a workshop on historical networks organized by ModelSEN. This workshop brought together scholars, who have a joint interest in approaches drawn from multi-layer net- work analysis to investigate historical processes that involve layers of different kinds and include both social and epistemic components. This paper summarizes the outcomes and is intended to serve as a starting point for further discussions and the strengthening of a community in Historical Network Research.

1 January 2022


Marten Düring
Article
How to Design Web Archives Research

How to Design Web Archives Research

The aim of this guide is to provide a starting point for using web archives as a source for social science research. With the migration of many aspects of the so- cial world online, fundamental questions have been raised about how and even when social science research happens in the online sphere (Karpf, 2012). Web archives, or archives of content and communications from the Web through time, crucially provide the means for retrospectively studying dynamic media and online interactions that are often subject to change and deletion.

1 January 2022


Frédéric Clavert
Article
Konsum im Minett

Konsum im Minett

Gemeinsam mit der Industrialisierung des Minetts in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts entstand auch eine Konsumgesellschaft. Diese interaktive Mini-Doku gibt einen Einblick in die Geschichte dieser Konsumgesellschaft von der Industrialisierung bis heute. Sie berichtet von Modernisierungsschüben und Stagnation, sowie über Versuche von Konsumentinnen und Konsumenten mehr Einfluss zu gewinnen sowie über die Bedeutung der Migration für die Entwicklung der Konsum- und Warenwelt.

1 January 2022


Julia Harnoncourt, Stefan Krebs
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
COVID-19 Digital Memory Banks: Challenges and Opportunities for Historians of Education

COVID-19 Digital Memory Banks: Challenges and Opportunities for Historians of Education

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, historians – along with archivists and other stakeholders – began to initiate digital memory banks, inviting members of the public to upload personal stories, pictures, videos, or other material connected to the pandemic and its impact on everyday life. This article describes how platforms from Western and Central Europe differ with regard to contributions by children and adolescents, taking the German coronarchiv.de and covidmemory.lu from Luxembourg as the main case studies.

1 January 2022


Stefan Krebs
Article
D'Fraen an der Industrie an hier Geschichten

D'Fraen an der Industrie an hier Geschichten

1 January 2022


Julia Harnoncourt
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Questioning the Decline of Repair in the Late 20th Century: The Case of Luxembourg, 1945-1990

Questioning the Decline of Repair in the Late 20th Century: The Case of Luxembourg, 1945-1990

1 January 2022


Stefan Krebs, Thomas Hoppenheit
  • Public history
Article
The story of a bank through the architecture of its headquarters

The story of a bank through the architecture of its headquarters

1 January 2022


Cécile Duval, Marco Gabellini, Victoria Mouton
Article
Note on Immigration from Dr Inna Ganschow

Note on Immigration from Dr Inna Ganschow

A very short introduction to migration of Lithuanians to Luxembourg in 1890-1940.

1 January 2022


Inna Ganschow
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Review: Newspaper Navigator

Review: Newspaper Navigator

Created for the Library of Congress, Newspaper Navigator re-imagines how we search the rich visual content in historic newspapers. The first phase of the project utilized machine learning techniques to extract visual content from 16.3 million digitized newspaper pages in Chronicling America. 1 This resulted in the Newspaper Navigator dataset, released in May 2020. The dataset and finetuned machine learning model 2 are in the public domain. A paper on the dataset was presented at the 2020 ACM Conference on Information Knowledge & Management (CIKM).

1 January 2022


Lorella Viola
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Crécy Forever. John the Blind’s monument(s) against the background of regionalism, patriotism and nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries

Crécy Forever. John the Blind’s monument(s) against the background of regionalism, patriotism and nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries

1 January 2022


Anna Jagos
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Presenter: Families of Luxembourgish soldiers during the Nazi occupation and the impact of local authorities and NS-organizations on their everyday life

Presenter: Families of Luxembourgish soldiers during the Nazi occupation and the impact of local authorities and NS-organizations on their everyday life

1 January 2022


Sarah Maya Vercruysse
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Crimes or subsistence?

Crimes or subsistence?

Along with the mining and industrial activity in the Minett, petty crimes also made their way into this iron and steel region. This video reunites nine crime stories about prostitution, food theft and smuggling from newspaper snippets dating from the First World War to the interwar years with linocuts made by Viennese artist Benjamin Steiner exclusively for this exhibition. This work is considerably inspired by the socialist artist and former miner Albert Kaiser (1892-1972).

1 January 2022


Stefan Krebs, Julia Harnoncourt, Irene Portas
Article
Digital History and Hermeneutics. Between Theory and Practice.

Digital History and Hermeneutics. Between Theory and Practice.

As a result of rapid advancements in computer science during recent decades, there has been an increased use of digital tools, methodologies and sources in the field of digital humanities. While opening up new opportunities for scholarship, many digital methods and tools now used for humanities research have nevertheless been developed by computer or data sciences and thus require a critical understanding of their mode of operation and functionality.

1 January 2022


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Outro. American Skin

Outro. American Skin

1 January 2022


Andreas Fickers
  • Public history
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
The Emergence of the Minett

The Emergence of the Minett

When did the Minett actually become the Minett? When and why did the iron and steel industry develop in southern Luxembourg? Learn more about the history of Luxembourg’s industrial region with the virtual exhibition minett-stories.lu

1 January 2022


Stefan Krebs
  • Public history
Article
Review - Cristina Ferreira, Ludovic Maugué, Sandrine Maulini, L’homme-bus : une histoire des controverses psychiatriques (1960-1980)

Review - Cristina Ferreira, Ludovic Maugué, Sandrine Maulini, L’homme-bus : une histoire des controverses psychiatriques (1960-1980)

Le 10 janvier 1986, Martial Richoz est placé de force à l’hôpital psychiatrique de Cery, dans la banlieue de Lausanne. Ce jeune homme se promenait depuis plusieurs années avec un trolleybus en miniature dans les rues de sa ville, déguisé en chauffeur des transports lausannois. Son enfermement se transforme en affaire juridique, médiatique et politique. Ce moment est l’occasion pour Cristina Ferreira, Ludovic Maugué et Sandrine Maulini de retracer « une histoire des controverses psychiatriques...

1 January 2022


Benoît Majerus
Article
Dr Mousel looks at dusty skies

Dr Mousel looks at dusty skies

1 January 2022


Jens van de Maele, Stefan Krebs
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Minettsmap 1980s

Minettsmap 1980s

In the 1980s, two photographers were exploring the industrial region of Luxembourg by camera. Jos Rinaldi, a mechanical engineer/technician at ARBED, and Fred Bisenius, a social and cultural activist, were documenting the life, work, leisure and landscapes of the Minett. The Minettsmap offers us a glimpse of the past through the lens of their outstanding collection.

1 January 2022


Jens van de Maele, Stefan Krebs, Viktoria Boretska
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Zuhause mit Ketty und Catherine

Zuhause mit Ketty und Catherine

Based on original sources, this radio play is a recreation of a 1950s women’s radio show which offers us a glimpse into some of the typical issues facing women at the time. Our two presenters, Ketty and Catherine, comment on social and political themes mentioned in letters from female listeners living in the Minett. These themes include the call for pacifism during the Cold War as well as the lack of playgrounds for children in Esch. Our duo also offer some advice on culinary matters and household chores.

1 January 2022


Jens van de Maele, Julia Harnoncourt
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Préface

Préface

1 January 2022


Denis Scuto
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article

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