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This special issue is the result of an open call launched two years ago in connection with the activities of the Robert Schuman Initiative, led at the University of Luxembourg by Prof. David Howarth. Our call for papers invited scholars to historically analyse the relationship between the EU single market and the internet from a critical perspective. This interdisciplinary issue mainly analyses how the development of the Internet has created major regulatory challenges at the EU level.

It seemed fitting to break away from a conference bringing together American and European scholars and researchers working on digital humanities for an old-fashioned face-to-face conversation about Yiddish. During a conference on Digital Hermeneutics at the German Heritage Institute in Washington, DC, I sat down to talk with Gerben Zaagsma, who is an assistant professor at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg.

In der Geschichtsschreibung zu Ostbelgien hat das 19. Jahrhundert über Jahrzehnte ein Schattendasein gefristet. Den Schatten warfen drei geschichtliche Momente: der Staatenwechsel von 1920, die bewegten Jahre bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs und die anschließende Säuberung. Häufig wurden Geschichte und Geschichtsbilder zu bloßen Argumenten, um die Angliederung Eupen-Malmedy-Sankt Viths an Belgien 1920 zu verteidigen bzw. zu verdammen. In dieser Folge von „100 Jahre Ostbelgien“ möchten wir wir erklären, wie aus dem so genannten langen 19.

This paper deals with a question that is becoming increasingly important for historians who work with digitised cultural heritage: what are the politics of digitisation and what are its implications for historical research? Is the often-lauded democratising potential of digitisation also offset by risks, inherent in selection processes that might privilege the digitisation of heritage corresponding to existing national master narratives, the availability of funding and/or the priorities set by cultural policies and certain research agendas?

Despite the promise that foreign Jews who had resided in Luxembourg before the war and had to flee nazi persecution, could come back after the war, Luxembourg authorities restricted the return of the foreign Jews who had survived and made an application to return and settle in the Grand-Duchy. The article is based on the analysis of a database of more than 3.000 foreign Jews who had resided in Luxembourg in the 1930s. More than 400 foreign Jews tried to return after the war.

Intervention sur l'archivage du Web en déclinant/discutant l'argumentaire de la séance– Les garanties des libertés numériques (notamment sur les enjeux de souveraineté nationale / l'interopérabilité des données etc.) Argumentaire de la séance : L’effectivité des droits et libertés numériques constitue une condition nécessaire de la confiance des citoyens dans les biens et services numériques. Créer les conditions de l’effectivité des libertés numériques représente à l’évidence un enjeu central pour les prochaines années.

Déi zwee Historiker erzielen iwwer den FORUM Z, organiséiert vum C2DH, deen haut iwwer den Theema Holocaust: History and Memory, geet. De Forum zu Mondorf an der Orangerie vum Thermalbad ass agedeelt an dräi Deeler: 1. The Holocaust and Jewish life in Luxembourg: filling the gaps 2. Holocaust research in the digital age 3. Combating anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe

Roundtable Combating anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe What is the state of anti-Semitism in Europe, and Luxembourg, today? How can it be situated within the broader context of rising hate speech and crime, online and offline? What methods are being proposed to combat it? How does it relate to politics and the broader memory battles that are being fought in Europe today? These will be the themes addressed during a round table discussion with the following participants:

Through the steel industry (developed since early 19th century), Luxembourg manages to join the great po­litical circuit, to insert itself as a founding member of the institutions (and to) defend and promote its national interests

A blog post reporting on a lecture about the use of word embeddings in humanities.

The globalisation of the digital economy is indicative of a changing multidimensional paradigm driven by a number of factors: the primacy of intangible assets in value creation; a growing transnational and international dimension in the production and consumption of goods and services; the transition from human labour to artificial intelligence; the increasing dominance of networks of stakeholders over individual players; the emergence of new forms of sharing, creation, collaboration and innovation; and the need to harmonise rules, standards and policies (including in the area of taxation)