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Paul Hamtiaux landete als Zwangsrekrutierter in der sowjetischen Gefangenschaft in einer Propaganda-Abteilung und war an der Front als Radio-Sprecher eingesetzt. Über seine Gefangenschaft ist ein schriftliches Dokument geblieben – das Tagebuch des russischen Hauptmanns Georgij Nemkow, der über seinen neuen Mitarbeiter relativ ausführlich berichtet. Die alten Freunde haben sich 50 Jahre später gefunden...

Der Generalstreik am 31. August 1942 war die Reaktion auf die Zwangsrekrutierung von Luxemburgern in die deutsche Wehrmacht. Beides sind Ereignisse, die das Leben Tausender auf ewig prägten – zu ihnen gehört auch Jos Steichen, deren Jugend aus einer Reihe von Gefängnissen, Lager und Camps verbracht wurde.

This proposal will discuss the use of digital picture archives and associated tools in historical research from the perspective of digital history with a focus on resources for the history of education. Our starting point will be threefold: • digital picture archives need to be seen as part of a wide range of digital resources that are currently available for historical research; while certain methodological, epistemological and technical questions are specific for digital picture archives, many pertain to digital resources in general;

This contribution invited participants of the Summer school to critically reflect upon centers and peripheries in Internet history, not only from a geographical perspective , but also from a narrative standpoint

“Amateurs of one era are not the amateurs of another, even when a continuous tradition exists to connect them”, is an intriguing statement made by Lisa Gitelman (2014). Overall, Gitelman’s answer would favor a certain level of complexity as to avoid ‘sloppy media history’ even when a continuous tradition exists to connect them (137). Rather, we should explore how amateur filmmakers ‘doing and its do-ability’ can differ as they are situated in broader historical contexts.

Bipartite (two-mode) networks are important in the analysis of social and economic systems as they explicitly show conceptual links between different types of entities. However, applications of such networks often work with a projected (one-mode) version of the original bipartite network. The topology of the projected network, and the dynamics that take place on it, are highly dependent on the degree distributions of the two different node types from the original bipartite structure.

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Participation in a roundtable discussion on Jewish History and digital Humanities.

Le Centenaire de la Grande Guerre fait l’objet de nombreuses commémorations. Sur le réseau social numérique Twitter, des millions de tweets l’évoquent. En analysant des données collectées sur Twitter, cet article, après avoir donné une vision générale des traces du centenaire sur ce réseau, se penche sur le cas des commémorations polémiques de la bataille de Verdun.