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Can large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) unlock the secrets hidden within historical documents, such as showpeople periodicals? This question propelled researchers from the universities of Antwerp, Luxembourg, and Marburg to explore the potential of LLM/AI in a one-day workshop.

This talk was aiming at highlighting the main findings of the first stages of the oral history project "The role of women in European and international relations in Luxembourg, with a specific focus on elucidating the emergence and role of female figures in building Luxembourg's diplomatic relations after the Second World War, through the lens of oral history.

As outlined in the call for papers, the field of digital humanities is marked by a shared aspiration to advocate and push for ethical, sustainable, and inclusive methodologies and approaches, articulated through manifestos, theoretical approaches, and concrete implementations within infrastructures, while it simultaneously grapples with a multitude of individual and collective paradoxes.

A Russland gëtt vun haut u bis e Sonndeg een neie President gewielt. Datt deen nei wäert sinn, dovunner geet allerdéngs keen Observateur aus. Och net d'Fuerscherin op der Uni Lëtzebuerg, d'Inna Ganschow, mat där de Jacques Ganser geschwat huet.

Since March 2020, the Warlux project at C²DH has been delving into the experiences and narratives of Luxembourg's 'forced recruits' and their families during the Second World War. The aim is to break with the traditional historiography surrounding the 'forced recruits' and to critically examine established narratives within the country's overarching historical discourse.

Alors qu’elles constituent la moitié du genre humain, les femmes ont été longtemps absentes du récit transnational du passé et invisibles dans la sphère des relations internationales. La professionnalisation de la diplomatie au XIXe siècle a fait de ce domaine un bastion du pouvoir masculin où l’accès des femmes ne fut qu’aléatoire et discrétionnaire. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la reconnaissance par l’ONU des droits des femmes (1946) sensibilise progressivement les opinions publiques et incite les États à l’action politique.

The reality of the past is complex in its many facets and perspectives; however, dominant historical narratives have overtaken the representation of the past through a simplified version from a single perspective. Academics are complicit in this process, not only by emphasizing some types of (historic) source material over others but also by claiming authority over the past. Sharing the authority to narrate the past is therefore a crucial step to allow uncertainty back into the historical narrative.

This guide was created as part of the ATTRACT project Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS), funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR)

We have a special episode today from DePOT affiliates at the University of Luxembourg examining the steel crisis in Luxembourg in the 1970s and the deindustrialization of East Germany's steel sector after 1990. Stefan Krebs, the head of the project Confronting Decline (CONDE) is joined by two PhD students, Zoé Konsbruck and Nicolas Arendt to discuss their research into the impacts industrial closure had on steel towns, with a particular emphasis on transnational comparisons.