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Roundtable : (Digital) Cultural Heritage at risk. Lessons learned for future preservation strategies

Roundtable : (Digital) Cultural Heritage at risk. Lessons learned for future preservation strategies

www.c2dh.uni.lu The Russian invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022 shattered long held beliefs and certainties including the idea that all things digital exist in an ephemeral sphere outside of the grim realities of the physical world. Instead, the war emphasized the fragility of servers,data and critical infrastructure to physical threats and their exposure to

23 November 2022


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Repetition and variation in historicizing online virality

Repetition and variation in historicizing online virality

A brief history of rumour and online virality, methodological issues in historicising online virality through web archives and data retrieved from social platforms of the living web.

23 November 2022


Fred Pailler
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Archiving and Oral History. Hands-On history: automated transcription.

Archiving and Oral History. Hands-On history: automated transcription.

In the context of the project “24.02.22, 5 am: Testimonies from the War”, one of the tasks in the process of creating a digital archive of testimonies is to transform the audio testimony into a transcript. We have important questions to consider when transcribing :Which way and type of tranсribing corresponds to our purpose? Which type of transcript will be most useful for your particular context? Ways to Transcribe Interviews Transcription can be done in several different ways: In the scientific literature, four main ways of transcription are distinguished.

23 November 2022


Kateryna Zakharchuk
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Explorers Japan talk

Explorers Japan talk

19 November 2022


Thomas Cauvin
  • Public history
Article
Ech kucken net

Ech kucken net

Denis Scuto, historian, former Luxembourg national team footballer, former record-holder of first league matches played in Luxembourg (424 matches from 1982 to 2002) and today vice-director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) explains why he will not be watching the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

19 November 2022


Denis Scuto
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
This Hard Minett Land. Texte über Luxemburgs Süden, inspiriert von Bruce-Springsteen-Songs. Mit Illustrationen von Dan Altmann

This Hard Minett Land. Texte über Luxemburgs Süden, inspiriert von Bruce-Springsteen-Songs. Mit Illustrationen von Dan Altmann

This book is an invitation to a very special voyage of discovery through Luxembourg's south: around forty Luxembourgish, German, French, Italian, Belgian writers and historians have been inspired by Bruce Springsteen's songs and have written texts about the Luxembourg-Lorraine iron ore basin, "de Minett", and about those who live and have lived there, were born there or immigrated there, worked there, loved there, dreamed there, hoped, struggled, succeeded - or failed.

15 November 2022


Denis Scuto
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Qu'est-ce que l'histoire publique ?

Qu'est-ce que l'histoire publique ?

8 November 2022


Thomas Cauvin
  • Public history
Article
Luxembourg Economy

Luxembourg Economy

Situated in the centre of Europe and bordered by two major powers, France and Germany, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has always sought to maintain an openness to its neighbours, for reasons of security and to give itself access to larger markets. In the 19th century Luxembourg was part of the German customs and trade union (Zollverein). Following the First World War, the country embarked on a process of economic and monetary integration with Belgium via the BLU and it played a driving role in the Benelux Economic Union.

7 November 2022


Elena Danescu
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
WARCnet WG2 activities: a report

WARCnet WG2 activities: a report

3 November 2022


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Jack of All Trades - Stolz und Hilflosigkeit

Jack of All Trades - Stolz und Hilflosigkeit

28 Oktober 2022


Daniel Richter
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Australian Indigenous Life Writing: Analysing Discourses with Word Embedding Modelling

Australian Indigenous Life Writing: Analysing Discourses with Word Embedding Modelling

The genre of Australian Aboriginal autobiography is a literature of significant socio-political importance, with authors sharing a history different to the one previously asserted by the European settlers which ignored or misrepresented Australia's First People.

28 Oktober 2022


Ekaterina Kamlovskaya
Article
Paper and ink in the Soviet camp 188 in Tambov: capturing the camp life of Luxembourger conscripts

Paper and ink in the Soviet camp 188 in Tambov: capturing the camp life of Luxembourger conscripts

In the talk by Inna Ganschow, the camp experience in the Soviet Union will be treated as a consequence of the forced conscription, namely in its artistic processing. Secretly written diaries and letters of Luxembourg Wehrmacht soldiers or poems of deceased comrades learned by them by heart, they also reached their homeland.

27 Oktober 2022


Inna Ganschow
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Native Borderland Children in the Belgian-German and Polish-German Borderlands. Comparing Verification and Nationalisation Narratives After the Second World War

Native Borderland Children in the Belgian-German and Polish-German Borderlands. Comparing Verification and Nationalisation Narratives After the Second World War

27 Oktober 2022


Machteld Venken
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Presenter: Friends and/or Enemies? Conflicting Loyalties among Soldiers Fighting Both in the German Army and the Allied Forces

Presenter: Friends and/or Enemies? Conflicting Loyalties among Soldiers Fighting Both in the German Army and the Allied Forces

27 Oktober 2022


Machteld Venken
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Konsumgüterwerbung und Popkultur in den „langen“ 1960er Jahren: eine transnationale Perspektive

Konsumgüterwerbung und Popkultur in den „langen“ 1960er Jahren: eine transnationale Perspektive

27 Oktober 2022


Matthias Höfer
Article
Wie erzählt man Geschichte(n) für ein breites Publikum? Minett-stories.lu als ein Versuch des Transmedia Storytellings

Wie erzählt man Geschichte(n) für ein breites Publikum? Minett-stories.lu als ein Versuch des Transmedia Storytellings

26 Oktober 2022


Stefan Krebs
  • Public history
Article
Memorial of the Shoah Luxembourg

Memorial of the Shoah Luxembourg

This Memorial is bridging stories and memories of victims and survivors of the Shoah.

24 Oktober 2022


Denis Scuto
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Virtual exhibition
Impacting the computerization and Digitalization in Luxembourg: the case of teachers and education

Impacting the computerization and Digitalization in Luxembourg: the case of teachers and education

21 Oktober 2022


Carmen Noguera
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Advertising media artifacts and their impact in the French youth magazine “Salut les Copains” (1960s)

Advertising media artifacts and their impact in the French youth magazine “Salut les Copains” (1960s)

21 Oktober 2022


Matthias Höfer
Article
How do researchers collect new sources? Interviewees in Oral History. The Voices of the War.

How do researchers collect new sources? Interviewees in Oral History. The Voices of the War.

At the core of our data collection method in our project “Testimonies from the war” is collecting interviews with displaced population, forced to leave Ukraine because of the Russia’s invasion. Interviewing is a qualitative method of data collection whose results are based on intensive engagement with respondents. In our case, the topic is forced migration and the change of peoples’ lives from 24th February till today. Strategies for engaging interview participants.

20 Oktober 2022


Kateryna Zakharchuk
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article

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