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Panel: National webs Niels Brügger, School of Communication and Culture – Media Studies, Aarhus University Ditte Laursen, Royal Danish Library Friedel Geeraert, State Archives and Royal Library of Belgium Kees Teszelszky, KB – National Library of the Netherlands Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg Daniel Gomes, Arquivo.pt – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Do you remember how life was without internet? Do you recall how the first websites looked? Do browsers like Cello and companies such as Netscape still ring a bell? To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Professor Valérie Schafer of the University of Luxembourg kindly agreed to take us on a trip down memory lane. Together, we will explore the history of the internet and the web.

In this interview, Professor Tim Hitchcock describes his beginnings as an historian in British social history and how he became involved in the field of digital humanities. He explains how he started with Robert Shoemaker in the late 1990’s big digitization projects like “Old Bailey online” (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913). He emphasizes also the role of digital history in connection with the history from below in the United Kingdom and public history in the United States.

The article (long version) presents a workflow for combining oral history and language technology, and for evaluating this combination in the context of two use cases in European contemporary history research and teaching.

Dr Elena Danescu, a Research Scientist in the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg, then presented her book “Pierre Werner and Europe. The Archives Behind the Werner Report”, containing a foreword by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and a preface by Professor Harold James from Princeton University, recently released by the prestigious academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan.

Pierre Werner was one of the rare politicians to be associated with all the major milestones in the building of a united Europe, from the 1950 Schuman Plan to the Fontainebleau European Council in 1984. He placed the European integration process at the centre of Luxembourg domestic policy, convinced of the need to preserve national identity and sovereignty by adopting an international outlook. Determined to set the country on a forward-looking path, he pursued a pragmatic yet ambitious approach to economic diversification, focusing

Ce séminaire s'interroge sur le rôle de la caricature comme source pour raconter l'histoire de l'Europe au XXe siècle. Il s'agit d'analyser les procédés de la caricature et le rôle qu’elle a joué dans l'évolution des représentations de l'Europe à travers l'histoire. La caricature devient ainsi une source historique et un objet de recherche à part entière, qui vient compléter avec son message visuel, son ton décalé et humoristique les sources écrites ou orales.

In September 2019, C²DH will launch the DEMA project which will provide a systematic reflection on the methodological underpinnings of experimental media archaeology as a practical and sensorial approach to media historiography.

This article explores the birth and development of public history and presents the different criteria of its internationalization from the 1970s to the more recent creation of the International Federation of Public History. Based mostly on North America and Europe, the international perspective sets the development of public history in the United States into a broader context of debates about the changing role of historians.

À l’ère numérique et face à un besoin croissant de connaissance, l’histoire fait appel à de nouvelles sources. Depuis le milieu des années 1970, l’histoire orale enrichit progressivement les sources et la méthodologie de la recherche sur l’intégration européenne, aux côtés des sources traditionnelles (archives, sources éditées, publications officielles, etc) ou nouvelles (web-archives, bases de données en ligne).

This talk centers around the changing practice of doing history in the digital age, seen within the broader historical context of developments in the so-called digital humanities. It argues that there is too much emphasis on tools and data while too little attention is being paid to how the practice of doing history is changing as a result of the digital turn.