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This contribution aims to better understand the evolution of the relationship between psychiatry and addiction through the study of the experience of alcoholic patients in a mental institution. Alcoholism plays a central role in the emergence of the scientific approach to the pathological dimension of addiction. Although the medicalization of alcoholism dates to the second half of the 19th century, its integration into the field of psychiatry remains complex. Drunkenness, which later

Egberdien van der Peijl presented some artworks based on the ZWANG-proeject photograph sollection of the Ostarbeiters, made on the forced labourer camp sites and or in the steel mills together with DJ Yoni. The musical improvisation together with a theatrically played performance imitated the life of an Ostarbeiter in the gallery's basements. The venue was Fellner Contemporary in the city.

This Zotero group library collects literature about the intersection of Jewish Studies and digital humanities. It goes back to early uses of computing in JS in the 1950s. This is an archived version of the records added between 2019-2022. The bibliography is part of the project #DHJewish - Jewish Studies & Digital Humanities: https://dhjewish.org/.

Biography of Emmy Poukh (1933-2023), the wife of the Russian-Orthodox priest Luxembourgs Serge Poukh (1926-2016)

Throughout her academic projects, Dr Ganschow is working on the presence of the so-called Russian diaspora in Luxembourg, i.e. the emigrant population from former Soviet Republics. Her current project deals with Soviet forced labourers during the Second World War and is commissioned by the Luxembourg government. In her work, she decided to compare the situation of these forced labourers, mainly young women coming from Ukraine, with the local population, in the Belval region in the south of Luxembourg.

Historical newspapers are mirrors of past societies, keeping track of the small and great history and reflecting the political, moral, and economic environments in which they were produced. Highly valued as primary sources by historians and humanities scholars, newspaper archives have been massively digitised in libraries, resulting in large collections of machine-readable documents and, over the past half-decade, in numerous academic research initiatives on their automatic processing.

L’entretien qui suit offre un témoignage sur les enjeux, pratiques et difficultés suscités par l’ouverture et l’exploitation des données du web et des réseaux sociaux numériques.

The Banque Générale du Luxembourg (BGL), established in 1919, is one of Luxembourg’s iconic financial institutions. Drawing on the bank’s private archives, this article explores the many architectural changes made to the BGL headquarters over the years, ranging from extensions and renovations to new building projects. Throughout the bank’s history – and especially from its establishment until the late 1980s –, the buildings that housed its head office in the centre of Luxembourg City went through multiple transformations.

Durant la seconde moitié du vingtième siècle, il a été souvent écrit que les activités d’orpaillage de l’Ardenne belge remontaient au second âge du Fer. Cette attribution chronologique ne repose en réalité sur aucune observation scientifiquement démontrée. Par contre, une récente étude cartographique a mis en évidence la superposition des limites alto médiévales du domaine de l’abbaye de Stavelot Malmedy avec les tracés des ruisseaux aurifères du massif de Stavelot.