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Filant la métaphore culinaire, cet article interroge le « changement de régime » qu’entraîne le recours aux archives du Web.

Digital technologies may impact the practices of historians at every stages of their research, from retrieving archives, building a corpus to writing and editing. Digital tools have influenced spaces for scientific dialogue and free flow of ideas within the historians' community. As such, Digital Humanities are challenging the shaping of history, but they could also become an object of history. Therefore, we will analyse such an hybridization that may enrich our field of study.

In this interview, Professor Andrew Prescott describes his beginnings as a librarian and how this profession brought him to the field of digital humanities. He emphasizes more broadly the role of curators in this field including the role of metadata and the configuration of collections in a new way. Andrew Prescott also historicizes the digital turn in humanities and explores the most exciting trends for the future.

Cette intervention se propose d’observer - de la collecte à l’exploitation par les chercheur.e.s, différents aspects, paradoxes, défis et enjeux de l’archivage du Web et de ses archives.

Die Geschichte Eupen-Malmedys erscheint aus einer reinen Innenperspektive komplex. Ohne Rückgriffe auf die belgischen und deutschen diplomatischen Archive ist sie kaum zu entschlüsseln. Zusätzliche Informationen können die Historiker aus Quellen schöpfen, die weitere Blicke und Einschätzungen von außen preisgeben. Die diplomatischen Archive der französischen, britischen und US-amerikanischen Botschaften bieten sich da an.

The analysis of UNESCO’s audio-visual archives for their digitization has brought to light a forgotten album of 38 contact sheets and accompanying texts by Magnum photographer, David “Chim” Seymour – a reportage made in 1950 for UNESCO on the fight against illiteracy in Italy’s southern region of Calabria. A number of his photographs appeared in the March 1952 issue of UNESCO Courier in an article written by Carlo Levi, who had gained worldwide fame with his novel Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945).

This article explores a novel way to understand the process of diasporic identity formation by comparing the discursive structure of Italian diasporic newspapers published in the United States with the baseline of public discourse in Italy. It uses as its evidence Italian language newspapers published in the United States from 1898 to 1920 (ChroniclItaly) and the Italian newspaper La Stampa published in Italy between 1867 and 1900.

Der dreimalige Wechsel der staatlichen Souveränität im heutigen Ostbelgien war für die Bürger eine Herausforderung. Bisher haben die Historiker eher die einzelnen Zäsuren von 1920, 1940 und 1944/45 untersucht. Können sie diese Übergangszeiten aber auch vergleichen und dabei den historischen Realitäten noch gerecht werden?