Data

Cette séance de séminaire est consacré aux enjeux de préservation, patrimonialisation, approche des CD-ROMs, en faisant une place particulière aux questions de conservation, d’archéologie des médias, de contextualisation et de lecture appuyées sur des cas d’études concrets.

Participation to a panel organised by Mats Fridlund (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) : Towards Responsible DH: Practices of Critical and Caring DH (short presentation and discussion) Valérie Schafer explores how researchers can balance the objectives of historical documentation with ethical considerations in digital heritage research, particularly when dealing with personal data and born-digital materials.

Am Kader vum 80. Anniversaire vum Enn vum Zweete Weltkrich invitéieren d’Diddelenger Geschichtsfrënn, als Ofschloss vun hirer Assemblée Générale, op eng spannend Konferenz vun der Historikerin Dr. Inna Ganschow. Am Laf vum Mäerz wäert och hiert neit Buch "Keiner weinte, es gab keine Tränen mehr: Ukrainische, russische und belarussische ZwangsarbeiterInnen in Luxemburg im Zweiten Weltkrieg aus transnationaler Sicht" erauskommen.

The article treats the unpublished manuscript of the memoirs of forced labor in Differdange was called “History of My Generation” by its author, Maria Talpa (1926-1997) from Ukraine.

This monograph examines the interrelationship between politics and modernist architecture in interwar Belgium, focusing on political, architectural, and administrative elites as propagators of new ideas of governance. While Belgium was strongly influenced by neighbouring France and Germany, it also developed its own avant-garde approaches to socio-political problems. In the second half of the 1930s, the country was the scene of a remarkable political and architectural experiment involving an ambitious plan for the large-scale construction of modernist government office buildings.

Abstract

Entre 2013 et 2023, un collectif d’historiens a publié une série de six volumes sur l’histoire de la Communauté germanophone de Belgique, entité fédérée dans l’Etat fédéral belge située à la frontière avec l’Allemagne, les Pays-Bas et le Luxembourg (1). Le volume 4, paru en 2019, traite de la période 1919-1945 qui comprend les trois changements de nationalité de 1919-20/1940/1944 du territoire alors connu sous la désignation d’Eupen-Malmedy entre l’Allemagne et la Belgique.

The contribution of CD-ROMs to the media and technology landscape is often overlooked, although it was highlighted in the fields of creativity (Lessard, 2018) and video gaming (Therrien, 2019). Their role as bridge technology is one aspect that has received little attention, while their impact was significant: CD-ROMs were pivotal connectors facilitating early Internet and Web access (Schafer, 2022).

This doctoral thesis examines the consequences of desertion and draft evasion on the families of Luxembourgish young men enrolled in the Reichsarbeitsdienst and Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It explores the repressive measures imposed on them by the Nazi authorities, focusing on the underlying mechanisms, ideological frameworks and objectives, as well as the roles and interactions of various power structures involved.

Lecture in the Introduction to Digital Humanities seminar for Master in Digital Humanities at the University of Athens.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s an era of “new media” opened, full of the promises of multimedia, while databases emerged as the new “symbolic form” (Manovich, 2002), and interactivity turned into a buzzword. Our proposal revisits this history through one “transmedia” and “boundary” object: CD-ROMS in Print books. These catalogs of more than a thousand pages aimed to list, classify, and describe all available CD-ROMs of the time.

This presentation aims to explore key issues of web archives and social media analysis, drawing on findings and experience from the collective HIVI project (A History of Online Virality, hivi.uni.lu), which concluded in 2024. The focus is on the challenges, opportunities and limits that arise when using born- digital sources to trace the evolution of “Internet phenomena” over time. The presentation will first examine questions related to Sources and Corpora – specifically, the challenges of preservation and of