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Layering Public Park Histories: Using GIS to Uncover Socio-Spatial Inclusion and Exclusion in Post-war Germany and the U.S.

Layering Public Park Histories: Using GIS to Uncover Socio-Spatial Inclusion and Exclusion in Post-war Germany and the U.S.

This paper proposes a lens of analysis for studying the history of public urban parks as spaces that fostered specific codes of conduct. The two case studies of post-war public urban park development in Richmond, Virginia (United States) and Hamburg (Germany) exemplify restoration ideas and ideals implemented by urban planners, politicians, and residents. This paper focuses on two historical contexts, which launched radical structural changes throughout the built environment in each case study.

1 Septembre 2024


Eliane Schmid
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Der trügerische Blick auf den Anderen. Die Beziehungen zwischen Siebenbürger Sachsen und Luxemburgern in der Zwischenkriegszeit

Der trügerische Blick auf den Anderen. Die Beziehungen zwischen Siebenbürger Sachsen und Luxemburgern in der Zwischenkriegszeit

1 Septembre 2024


Philippe Blasen
  • Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Article
Digital Archival Literacy and Historical Research Practices

Digital Archival Literacy and Historical Research Practices

An Interactive Panel Discussion on History, Technology, and the Transformation of the Archive, convened by Milan van Lange and Gerben Zaagsma.

22 Août 2024


Gerben Zaagsma
  • Contemporary history of Europe
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Infrastructuring public history: When participation deals with the past

Infrastructuring public history: When participation deals with the past

In this paper, we relate participatory design (PD) scholarship with public history (PH) research, deepening the understanding of the relationship of PD with history, focusing on "history with PD". The latter refers to when history itself is explicitly the object of participation, and we discuss it by presenting a secondary analysis of a PH project, HistorEsch, conducted through the conceptual lens of infrastructuring. In this way, we show how PD and PH practices consider the past of a place and how they relate to public formation, intermediation, and proliferation.

11 Août 2024


Thomas Cauvin
  • Public history
Article
Using kiara to Improve Research Transparency and Support Digital Literacy in Historical Research

Using kiara to Improve Research Transparency and Support Digital Literacy in Historical Research

This poster will introduce DHARPA (the Digital History Advanced Research Accelerator project) and its innovative data orchestration tool, kiara, demonstrating its applications for digital history through the research projects of three associated PhD students, exemplifying its application in practical research. It also aims to demonstrate the software’s ability to formalise research transparency and critical reflection of humanities datasets.

8 Août 2024


Luca Federico Cerra, Eliane Schmid
Article
Assembling a Teaching Toolkit for Digital History: Omeka S, Tropy and GenAI in the Undergraduate Classroom Creators

Assembling a Teaching Toolkit for Digital History: Omeka S, Tropy and GenAI in the Undergraduate Classroom Creators

In our digitally evolving world, educators of history face the challenge of preparing students for an unpredictable future of rich and overwhelming data amidst a society of rapidly evolving technologies. This panel advocates for incorporating advanced tools at early educational levels to meet contemporary undergraduate teaching challenges and promote historical thinking. It is divided into three papers, each dedicated to a specific digital tool: Omeka S, Tropy, and GenAI. We argue that these tools provide invaluable

7 Août 2024


Eliane Schmid, Tugce Karatas
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
A Multi-Layered and Interdisciplinary Approach to Online Virality and its Temporalities

A Multi-Layered and Interdisciplinary Approach to Online Virality and its Temporalities

Introduction of the book Online Virality. Spread and Influence (edited by Schafer and Pailler)

5 Août 2024


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
‘All your image are belong to us’: heritagization, archiving and historicization of memes

‘All your image are belong to us’: heritagization, archiving and historicization of memes

From the ‘Dancing baby’, ‘All your base are belong to us’ and the ‘Hampster dance’ in the second half of the 1990s to Bernie’s mittens at the US presidential inauguration, through to ‘Disaster girl’ and ‘Distracted boyfriend’, among others, memes have become an important part of our (visual) digital culture over the last 20 years. This article demonstrates why memes should be considered a critical part of our born-digital heritage, by examining their connections to digital histories and trajectories, as well as their role in pop, visual and digital culture.

1 Août 2024


Valérie Schafer
  • Contemporary history of Europe
Article
Using GIS to Analyze the Development of Public Urban Green Spaces in Hamburg and Marseille (1945 - 1973)

Using GIS to Analyze the Development of Public Urban Green Spaces in Hamburg and Marseille (1945 - 1973)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a powerful tool for spatial analysis. In historical research GIS are used for mapping, georeferencing, and data analysis. Layering information offers new ways to evaluate historical data and construct arguments. But GIS offer a myriad of choices for data modeling and visualization, so users should remain critical and conscious of their entire workflow processes. In the following, I employ the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis framework to systematically evaluate the implications of using GIS in historical research.

26 Juillet 2024


Eliane Schmid
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800, edited by Tracey A. Sowerby and Jan Hennings

Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800, edited by Tracey A. Sowerby and Jan Hennings

23 Juillet 2024


Luca Federico Cerra
  • Digital history & historiography
Article
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
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
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
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
Creating the Urban Citizen in Hamburg and Marseille: A Trans-Urban History of Public Urban Green Spaces during the Postwar Period (1945-1973)

Creating the Urban Citizen in Hamburg and Marseille: A Trans-Urban History of Public Urban Green Spaces during the Postwar Period (1945-1973)

This PhD project explores the ways in which public urban green spaces (PUGS) shaped an urban citizenry. As mirrors of societal relations, PUGS reflect the relationship between government officials, city planners and urban citizens, labor and recreation. Set in the aftermath of WWII and continuing until the First Oil Shock in 1973 this study captures a time of urban restructuring and rebuilding in Western Europe. The focus lies on public parks around the port areas of Hamburg and Marseille. Both cities are marked by the specific labor/lifestyle related to port cities: People are in flux.

4 Juillet 2024


Eliane Schmid
  • Digital history & historiography
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
Public History and Decolonisation

Public History and Decolonisation

1 Juillet 2024


Thomas Cauvin
  • Public history
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

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