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The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers have changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices and confronts historians with new challenges. Drawing on a growing community of practices, the impresso project invited scholars experienced with digitised newspaper collections with the aim of encouraging a discussion on heuristics, source criticism and interpretation of digitized newspapers.

Dr Sara Afonso Ferreira presented to the students the Court of Justice of the European Union and the collection of works of art which it preserves and which are representative of the Member States and of Europe’s multicultural diversity. Curia's artistic heritage has evolved in line with the stages of European integration and the history of the institution itself, and embodies nowadays the European identity.

Dr Jacopo Cellini's talk aimed at familiarising the students with the history of the EUI - which was founded in 1972 with the mission to “foster the advancement of learning in fields which are of particular interest for the development of Europe”. he HAEU opened to the public in 1986: they hold institutional and non-institutional archives on European integration (more than 270 fonds, multilingual and multimedia).

TRIBUNE. Alors que le rachat de Twitter a mis au jour la fragilité des contenus uniquement numériques, l’historien Frédéric Clavert appelle, dans une tribune au « Monde », à créer des mécanismes citoyens d’archivage pour « préserver l’information de notre époque ».

Dr Ioana Cîrstocea presented and analysed with the students her last book entitled "Learning Gender after the Cold War. Contentious Feminisms" 'Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), which is dedicated at "decoding" the role of feminist politics and technocratic norms, expert discourses, activist repertoires and academic knowledge on women’s rights and gender equality after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The talk presents an overview of theoretical aspects, NLP techniques and LLOD formalisms for analysing and representing semantic change.

Kriege sind Räume unterschiedlicher Begegnungen und Handlungsfelder: sei es durch Menschen, die durch Flucht und Migration, durch Deportation oder Gefangenschaft gezwungen sind, ihre Länder zu verlassen, oder durch die Bewegungen von Soldaten. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs waren beispielsweise über 50 Millionen Soldaten auf dem Marsch.

Le Goût de l’archive à l’ère numérique est un projet co-dirigé par Caroline Muller et Frédéric Clavert. Livre en ligne écrit de manière collaborative, il entend interroger les routines numériques « discrètes » des historiens face à l’archive, y compris au moment de la constitution du corpus, et examiner les conséquences possibles pour l’écriture de l’histoire de cette introduction, tant logicielle que matérielle, de l’informatique dans les pratiques historiennes.

In her book The radiance of France, Gabrielle Hecht has shown how France sought to carve out a distinctive role for itself by means of major technological projects (and especially nuclear power). She demonstrates how an American system was adapted in order to “make it French” and incorporate political and cultural issues. The same may be emphasized regarding computing in France: there was a desire to play a distinctive role in a market and field which were dominated by the USA.

The three research articles in this special issue and the interview with Ronda Hauben are partly the result of the 4th RESAW conference, that brought together through the RESAW network a community of researchers, web archivists and professionals, united around a common interest, namely web history and web archives. The 4th RESAW conference, organised on 17 and 18 June 2021 by the C2DH (Centre for contemporary and digital history) at the University of Luxembourg, sought to examine the tension between marginal and mainstream in web history, and to go beyond this binary view.