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The history of the National Telecommunications Network for Technology, Education and Research, born in 1993, had its roots in the 1980s, when scientific actors started to build networks in France, in a simultaneous but still dispersed way. From the beginning, Renater was original: local initiatives preceded the implementation of a national infrastructure that became part of world exchanges.

Économiste et juriste, homme politique et diplomate, acteur de marque de la construction européenne et notamment de l’intégration monétaire, participant à l’édification du Luxembourg contemporain, membre des milieux académiques, très présent dans les réseaux économiques européens et outre-Atlantique et intellectuel catholique militant, Pierre Werner (29 décembre 1913 – 24 juin 2002) a traversé le XXe siècle.

This article is part of the Forum special issue about the relations between Luxembourg and the United States. In this context, 'Says Who?' analyses the complex reception of the work of Luxembourg born American artist and curator, Edward Steichen, in his native country.

Série de trois séminaires consacrés aux problématiques liées à la guerre froide, accompagnés de séances méthodologiques sur l’utilisation de ressources documentaires (photographies, caricatures, documents audiovisuels, archives d'époque, infographie) concernant les grandes crises entre l'Est et l'Ouest depuis la fin de la Seconde guerre mondiale.

Ce chapitre à partir des exemples historiques interroge le rapport à la technique d'équipes d'ingénieurs ayant travaillé à l'Inria.

After a period of intensive work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, the memory – or rather the trauma – of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire research field. The Holocaust is furthermore increasingly understood as constitutive of a global memory community which transcends national memories and mediates universal values.

The "Bitter Years" was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its 50th anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 193541 as part of Roosevelts New Deal. The Great Depression of the 1930s defined a generation in modern American history and was still a vivid memory in 1962.