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Online Virality

Online Virality

The book Online Virality, edited by Valérie Schafer and Fred Pailler (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), aims to provide a comprehensive examination of online virality. It explores the many ways we can think about this modern phenomenon and analyse the circulation, reception, and evolution of viral born-digital content. Virality and content sharing always intertwine material, infrastructural, visual and discursive elements. This involves various platforms, stakeholders, intermediaries, social groups and communities that are constantly (re)defining themselves.

18 Juillet 2024


Valérie Schafer, Fred Pailler
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MODERN CITY. BOURGEOIS MIDDLE-CLASSES IN ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE (1842-1922)

LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MODERN CITY. BOURGEOIS MIDDLE-CLASSES IN ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE (1842-1922)

The middle classes have had more internal clashes than external. A plethora of intermediary categories is necessary to understand this historical period. And these go beyond the “black and white”nobility/middle-class and the rest. Everywhere the slightest division of the intermediary layers could pave the way to new social discriminations. What did this vast middle-class have in common? Despite their differences, industrialists, merchants, rentiers, high school teachers, higher civil servants what united them?

16 Juillet 2024


Suzana Cascao
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Environmental science and happiness

Environmental science and happiness

The interconnections of the environment and human beings have been largely researched by scientists. This chapter provides an overview of different concepts and theories on environmental science, happiness and wellbeing as well as their interconnections; looking at past, present and potential future development. The past section covers the evolution of the concepts: ‘environment’ and ‘environmental sciences’, and the development of the disciplines in relation to happiness and wellbeing.

16 Juillet 2024


Aida Horaniet Ibanez
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Luigi Einaudi: Economist, Statesman and Public intellectual. A Portrait of an Eminent European.

Luigi Einaudi: Economist, Statesman and Public intellectual. A Portrait of an Eminent European.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Einaudi, this event will reflect on his legacy for Europe today. As Prof. Giovanni Farese stated in his research paper dedicated to this outstanding Italian intellectual '' Economist, professor and senator before the Second World War governor of the Bank of Italy (1945-1948) and minister of the budget (1947-1948), after the war Einaudi was also the first president of the Italian Republic (1948-1955). In these capacities he was a strong advocate of European integration: he even imagined a common currency and a central bank.

9 Juillet 2024


Elena Danescu
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Die Personenstandsaufnahme und das Vetorecht der Quellen. Teil 4: Überlegungen zur völkischen Politik

Die Personenstandsaufnahme und das Vetorecht der Quellen. Teil 4: Überlegungen zur völkischen Politik

The "Personenstandsaufnahme" of 10 October 1941, a census conducted by the German occupier in Luxembourg with additional questions on nationality, mother tongue and ethnicity, is one of the best-known historical events in Luxembourg's contemporary history. Together with the strike against forced recruitment in August/September 1942, it remains an integral part of the culture of remembrance and historiography to this day.

6 Juillet 2024


Philippe Blasen
Article
Reassembling Marseille’s mosaic: urban planning in service of a post-World War II imagined identity

Reassembling Marseille’s mosaic: urban planning in service of a post-World War II imagined identity

Socio-spatial divisions between districts in the North and South have marked the port-city of Marseille since the post-World War II urban reconstruction period. This article analyses the decades spanning the 1940s to the 1960s Vieux Port area as well as the HLM (Habitation à Loyer Modéré, or rent controlled properties) building projects in the North of the city. This reveals a dual strategy deployed by urban planners as well as municipal and national government officials in response to an increasing immigrant workforce involving relocation into HLMs and (re-)designing public spaces.

3 Juillet 2024


Eliane Schmid
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Politics of Digitisation Session

Politics of Digitisation Session

This session will delve into the politics of digitisation and its relevance to the field of public history. What does the digitisation of cultural heritage offer historians and the public, and what do the politics of digital cultural heritage look like? We will first delve into different forms of cultural heritage digitization, from bottom-up community archiving to mass digitization and state-funded efforts.

2 Juillet 2024


Gerben Zaagsma
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Decolonizing Through Public History - Introduction

Decolonizing Through Public History - Introduction

Decolonization is the subject of an abundant literature, both as a historical event and as a contemporary process. In relations with the past, debates have risen about issues such as colonial monuments, museum collections, and repatriation. Rather than dealing with a specific type of space, institution, or material, this special issue in International Public History offers a discussion on the many links between decolonization and public history.

1 Juillet 2024


Thomas Cauvin
  • Public history
Article
Public History and Decolonisation

Public History and Decolonisation

1 Juillet 2024


Thomas Cauvin
  • Public history
Article
Hermeneutic Modeling of Detail in Textual Zoom and Literary Texts

Hermeneutic Modeling of Detail in Textual Zoom and Literary Texts

This chapter focuses on the dynamic nature of detail as an esthetic category and the hypothesis that interpretation in the digital medium encompasses a certain degree of modeling, understood in its double sense of building representations of objects and shaping figures in a plastic material.

28 Juin 2024


Florentina Armaselu
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Grüne Mauern und der Mythos der "ausgebliebenen Proletarisierung" - Periphere Arbeiterstraßen in der industrialisierten Kleinstadt Esch/Alzette zwischen Urbanität und Ruralität (1890-1935)

Grüne Mauern und der Mythos der "ausgebliebenen Proletarisierung" - Periphere Arbeiterstraßen in der industrialisierten Kleinstadt Esch/Alzette zwischen Urbanität und Ruralität (1890-1935)

26 Juin 2024


Daniel Richter
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Von der Personenstandsaufnahme zur Erhebung des Volkstums. Teil 3: Drohungen, Strafgelder, Schläge, einer Kartei halber

Von der Personenstandsaufnahme zur Erhebung des Volkstums. Teil 3: Drohungen, Strafgelder, Schläge, einer Kartei halber

The "Personenstandsaufnahme" of 10 October 1941, a census conducted by the German occupier in Luxembourg with additional questions on nationality, mother tongue and ethnicity, is one of the best-known historical events in Luxembourg's contemporary history. Together with the strike against forced recruitment in August/September 1942, it remains an integral part of the culture of remembrance and historiography to this day.

22 Juin 2024


Philippe Blasen
Article
2023 C²DH Annual Report

2023 C²DH Annual Report – now online

The C²DH is delighted to share with you its 2023 Annual Report, which looks back on a memorable year of pioneering research in digital and public history.

18 Juin 2024


Isabelle Voegeli
Report
Élections européennes: Enjeux, résultats, regards d’avenir

Élections européennes: Enjeux, résultats, regards d’avenir

"Élections européennes: Enjeux, résultats, regards d’avenir" - conférence-débat avec Martine Reicherts (Présidente du FNR Luxembourg), Jim Cloos (Secrétaire général TEPSA), Anne Calteux (Représentante de la Commission européenne au Luxembourg)

18 Juin 2024


Elena Danescu
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
C2DH Annual report

C²DH Annual Report 2022

A review of the C²DH's activities in 2022 - in digital format.

17 Juin 2024


Isabelle Voegeli
Report
La viralité, un défi patrimonial et archivistique

La viralité, un défi patrimonial et archivistique

Cette présentation aborde les potentialités mais aussi limites des archives du Web liées à la viralité (hashtags, mèmes, etc.) pour aborder les communautés politiques et leurs affects et émotions.

13 Juin 2024


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Presenter: Designing a best practice digital workflow in times of war. Insights into the launching of the U-CORE project

Presenter: Designing a best practice digital workflow in times of war. Insights into the launching of the U-CORE project

This paper provides an insight into the ongoing interdisciplinary research aimed at designing a best practice digital workflow for the collection, research, and archiving of audio testimonies related to the Russian full-scale invasion in Ukraine. As the first and largest international documentation project of testimonies on this war, it serves as a continuous guide for similar smaller documentation initiatives. The documentation project, known as ’24.02.2022, 5am.

7 Juin 2024


Inna Ganschow
Article
Le numérique, une opportunité pour tous et TOUTES

Le numérique, une opportunité pour tous et TOUTES

Cet atelier souhaite contribuer à penser l’éducation au numérique pour toutes et tous, et notamment en s’affranchissant des contraintes techniques ou en dépassant les stéréotypes de genre. L’atelier mêlera des éclairages théoriques et des exercices pratiques. Il proposera notamment de revenir sur l’histoire des femmes dans l’informatique des années 1950 à aujourd’hui. Il offrira également des pistes à explorer et des activités pour la mise en pratique d’une éducation au numérique inclusive dans les classes (de l’école au lycée).

6 Juin 2024


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Mentorship for early career scholars in web archive studies

Mentorship for early career scholars in web archive studies

This session aims to create a space for open discussion and networking for early career scholars (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers). Organised by three advanced scholars with strong expertise in web archives, this 90-minute session will focus first on the role and place of web archives in research, including how case studies, close and distant reading, and different tools and methods may be used, refined, and presented in research.

6 Juin 2024


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Playing the Imitation Game: Human-AI Simulators in Pedagogic Design

Playing the Imitation Game: Human-AI Simulators in Pedagogic Design

The aim of the study is to address the question of using generative AI in creative writing assignments starting from the hypothesis that preliminary simulations of AI-based pedagogic scenarios can help instructors to better understand the inner mechanisms of these technologies and their possible impact on the learning, assignment completion and evaluation processes. The paper presents a set of experiments with simulated student-agent interactions generated by AI chatbots and proposes a formal framework for assessing this form of “imitation game” and its possible applications in real teaching-learning environments.

5 Juin 2024


Florentina Armaselu
  • Digital history & historiography
Article

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