Digitale Geschichte und Historiographie

Ostbelgien 1920-2020 ist eine virtuelle Ausstellung über die Geschichte der Region Eupen-Malmedy-Sankt Vith seit dem Staatenwechsel von 1920. Das Projekt ist das Resultat einer Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens, dem Zentrum für Ostbelgische Geschichte und des C²DH.

A hands-on demonstration of the Kinora Viewer Replica. This public online event shows the fruits of a recent successful collaboration between the C²DH and the Department of Engineering. Combining historical inquiry with a hands-on and technical approach - involving the latest 3D modelling and desktop manufacturing engineering techniques - a media historian and two engineers joined forces to produce a working replica of a very special object in the history of (early) cinema: the Kinora viewer.

This online workshop organized by the OPERAS (a European research infrastructure for the development of open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities) community aims at revisiting digital knowledge infrastructures from an organisational and governance perspective, through their history, their stakes and achievements, as well as their challenges and obstacles.

On 17-18 December 2019, the first workshop of the DEMA project - Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory - project took place at the C²DH. For this workshop, specialists from the fields of media history, art history and the history of science were invited to share best practices and experiences in documenting hands-on and experimental research.

During the summer semester we co-taught a course called The Recurated Museum, which explored the evolving role of museums in digital spaces. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic mid-semester and the subsequent explosion of movements like #MuseumAtHome and #CultureChezNous, we directly confronted many of the ideas we featured in class in a way that we could not have previously imagined.

4th RESAW remote conference, hosted by the C²DH.

This workshop centred on digital methods for working with oral history and provided a survey of emerging practices for better discoverability within and across oral history collections. It facilitated sharing of approaches for oral history work at multiple stages, for collections published for posterity and for ongoing research projects.

Guest lecture by Lincoln Mullen (Department of History and Art History, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University) in the framework of the DTU-DHH Master Class “Digital History and Hermeneutics”.

Capturing Europe in Digital Sources: New Approaches for European Integration History?

Guest lecture by Dr. Mareike König (German Historical Institute Paris) in the framework of the DTU-DHH Master Class “Digital History and Hermeneutics”.

After much consideration and in light of the developing situation concerning Covid-19, we had to decide that the HNR conference in Luxembourg will no longer take place on 16-19 June 2020, but has been rescheduled to summer 2021. The exact date for the conference will be announced as soon as possible. Keynotes will however be streamed on 19 June 2020.

What better place to share the opportunities inherent in the digitisation of newspapers collections than an online event?