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Talk about (1) applying distant reading to oral histories and (2) Using oral histories for better understanding of big data

In the twenty-first century, multicultural encounters have become an experience that is familiar even to the youngest. In superdiverse trilingual Luxembourg, over 50% of the population are foreigners, and many of them do not speak the titular language of the country. Multicultural classrooms are studied very closely, but Russian-speaking students, a new but exponentially growing addition to the cultural mix, have not been studied yet in their journey of school integration.

The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), together with the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), organises this Summer School to explore methods of oral history and to test digital tools, while it pays attention to how digital sources may shape narratives in contemporary European history. The ‘Oral history of European integration’ collection presents audio and video accounts from key players and observers of the European integration process.

Cet article analyse en trois temps, correspondant à trois approches méthodologiques des archives du Web, la manière dont la recherche a évolué sous le double effet de nouveaux modes d’archivage et d’accès, développés par les institutions, et des questionnements scientifiques. Il revient sur des projets, de Web90 entre 2014 et 2018, dédié aux cultures numériques des années 1990, à l’actuel projet Hivi (Une histoire de la viralité en ligne), en passant par des recherches consacrées à des évènements spécifiques (attentats de 2015-2016 ; crise de la COVID-19).

Retour sur le livre de Fred Turner sur Stewart Brand

Dat, wat de Weekend a Russland geschitt ass, wär e Prezedenzfall, dee sécher net ouni Konsequenze bleiwe géif - seet d'Inna Ganschow, Historikerin op der Uni Lëtzebuerg. Fir si war virun allem frappant ze gesinn, wéi staark sech bei där Geleeënheet gewisen hätt, datt déi russesch Populatioun es genuch huet mam Krich.

The ego documents, especially war letters from the front of the soldiers, have been studied from many points of view. The letters contain much information about the use of 'violence', whether in terms of the striking power of the weapons and the encounters and dealings with locals, prisoners of war or the 'enemy'.

History in the digital present currently faces a paradoxical situation. When seen from a global perspective, the current state of cultural heritage digitisation is highly uneven and inequities in access abound. Global North/South divisions play a key role, yet are neither immutable nor the sole explanation as the existence of digital Norths in the South and digital Souths in the North shows.