Public history

Lecture by Markus Lay, office manager of Saarland’s historical commission. The online event is part of the REMIX lecture series.

Who were the Luxembourgish legionnaires? What were they doing in France? Why did they decide to enrol? How were they portrayed and remembered?

The international online symposium brought together scholars, museum professionals and heritage practitioners to discuss how participatory history is constructed, developed, and implemented in museums.

On 18 December 2020, the second workshop of the DEMA project - Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory - project took place at the C²DH. For this workshop, participants from various fields, including media history, art history, musicology, history of science, sensorial ethnography, contemporary composition and sound art were invited to share experiences on how to perform historical re-enactments and how experimental research can serve or operate in artistic practice.

Workshop organised by the “Remixing Industrial Pasts” team.

Dronetv.lu is a plurilingual platform on the history of military, industrial and educational television.

Fl’Esch Back, un groupe de discussion Facebook sur le passé d’Esch-sur-Alzette, ses habitants, ses lieux, et son patrimoine culturel.

Workshop led by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg, 17-18 June 2021. Submission deadline: 21 April 2021

There is more than just one East Berlin. People made very different experiences with the capital of the GDR. Hence there are also plenty of different memories of the East German capital. An exhibition on the history of East Berlin has to take these different perspectives into account and should be based on shared authority.