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The article of Denis Scuto outlines the history of nowadays housing crisis and upward housing market spiral in Luxembourg

Our research, among others, attempts to find answers to the questions: How Luxembourg administration dealt with Jewish refugees who had lost their citizenship arriving to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg from the East. Were there any particular differences between genders in the process of acceptance? Did Luxembourgish authorities distinguish or give priority to citizens of particular nations?

La naissance d'Arpanet en contexte Après être revenue sur la naissance du réseau dans les années qui précèdent directement la première connexion et les évènements de 1969 au sein du projet, cette intervention élargira le regard en amont (les réseaux avant Arpanet, les racines du temps partagé, etc.) et en aval (filiation et valeurs d'Internet qui sont célébrées à travers Arpanet).

The novel With Fire and Sword by Henry Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) is an example of the interweaving of fiction, historiography and national collective imagination. It was written at the end of the period of Polish partition (1882–1888) and deals with events that marked the history and the collective imaginations of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews: the history of the Khmel’nyts’kyy Uprising (1648–1657). The epic nature of these historical events already carried the seeds of a powerful and emotional narrative that lends itself to mythicization.

The Oxford English Dictionary states that originally, a mainframe only defined the central processing unit and primary memory of a computer, whereas now a mainframe describes any large or general-purpose computer, specifically supporting numerous peripherals or subordinate computers. The IBM System/360, announced in 1964 and first installed at around 1967, consists of a collection of peripherals that can be connected to any central processing unit in the system family.

This panel on parallel inventions is an opportunity to rethink 15-years of research on data networks and digitization from the perspective of simultaneity.

In an age when the museum experience is no longer tethered to physical spaces, how might we design for memorable experiences in the digital? Exploring the intersection of cultural objects, user interfaces, and human emotion, this talk unpacks the space between the future and the past, offering a new approach to interacting with our shared cultural heritage.

Descriptif de la journée Le vendredi 18 octobre 2019, les Archives de l’État et la Bibliothèque royale (KBR) vous emmèneront dans l’univers complexe de l’archivage du web, lors d’un colloque sous le thème « Saving the web : the promise of a Belgian web archive ».

Die Einwanderer_innen aus dem früheren Russischen Reich trugen zur Arbeiterlandschaft im Süden, Norden und Osten Luxemburgs nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bei. Nimmt man diese „Russen“ genauer unter die Lupe, zeigen sich mindestens drei neue Gruppen, die die bereits vor 1914 bestehende russische Gemeinde vergrößerten. Die ersten sind die ehemaligen Kriegsgefangenen aus den Lagern in Frankreich, Belgien und Deutschland. Ein Teil ist vor Kriegsende als Flüchtlinge im Lande, die anderen kommen nach dem Waffenstillstand im November 1918.