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This issue of VIEW provides a critical survey of new digital humanities (DH) methods and tools directed toward audiovisual (AV) media. DH as a field is still dominated by a focus on textual studies (studies of word culture) that are largely “deaf and blind” in their capacity to search, discover, and study AV materials. The mandate to improve these capacities is clear and unquestioned, though the pathways are fecund and numerous.

Data visualization is a powerful tool for digital scholarship yet not without its pitfalls. Based on the dissertation “Visualizing Gender Balance” comparing ten computer science conferences, several visualization techniques and tools undergo a critical review. The dataset underlying the visualizations contains data researchers encounter daily: bibliographic information. Analyzing larger sets of authors writing and publishing for conferences in computer science changes our perception of the gender (im)balance in this academic research area.

Die diplomatischen Diskussionen über die 1920 abgetretenen Kreise Eupen und Malmedy füllen viele Regalmeter. Welche Bedeutung Eupen-Malmedy im deutsch-belgischen Verhältnis zukam, ist jedoch nicht so leicht zu sagen: Zwar übernahm Belgien 1920 die Souveränität, ließ aber immer wieder Einmischungen der deutschen Politik bis 1940 auch bewusst zu. Das belgische Interesse an der Region erwachte nach der Annexion von 1940 erst wieder 1944.

This pilot project aimed at building an online portal that provides informa tion about the intersec tion of Jewish Studies and Digital Humani ties. The prototype website that we created (internal only) will be further developed in 2020 with a second stage grant.

My contribution includes a sample of testimonies containing the life stories of Jews born in the aftermath of World War II in two countries (Czechoslovakia and Luxembourg). At that time, Czechoslovakian Jews were living through the era of de-Stalinisation, and their narratives offer new insights into this segment of Jewish postwar history that differ from those of Jews living in liberal democratic European states.

The course presentation contains the concept of the bilateral seminar for the students of the University of Luxembourg and the University of Tambov which was conducted 2018-2019 in Luxemburg and Tambov on site and 2020 online. The historical connection between two cities through the prisoners of war and the civil forced labourers from 1942 until 1944 and their exchange in 1945 created a base for the deeper research in this intersection and the search for the other ones.

Der Zeitraum zwischen 1914 und 1945 wird eingerahmt durch die beiden größten militärischen Konflikte, die die moderne Welt gesehen hat. Auch in Eupen-Malmedy zogen Tausende junge Menschen in den Ersten oder Zweiten Weltkrieg, fielen oder kehrten verwundet an Körper und Seele heim. Doch nicht nur die Kriege und die Opfer, sondern auch die Erinnerung an den Krieg und der Militärdienst in der vermeintlich friedlichen Zwischenkriegszeit waren wichtige politische und soziale Einflussgrößen für die ostbelgische Gesellschaft.

Since the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of electrical/electronic communication and information circulation: from telephone, radio, and television to the internet. This volume reveals these connecting technologies’ geopolitical importance and their crucial relationships with culture, commerce, and communities.

This article reflects on the history of media history, e.g. its main topics, methodologies and conceptual approaches. It ends on a series of ideas how to develop the field in the age of digital tools and technologies.

Letošní ročník červnové konference v prostorách středověkého hradu Sovinec v Severomoravském kraji spojená s workshopem byla tradičně zaměřena na prezentaci právě probíhajících projektů realizovaných metodou orální historie. Účast na setkání byla podmíněna aktivním příspěvkem s délkou maximálně dvaceti minut.

The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) plays a crucial part in historical and political discourse for the construction of a Ukrainian national identity and contributes to the myth of the ‘two Ukraines’: a Pro-European Western Ukraine that glorifies the OUN as heroes of independence on one hand, and pro-Russian Eastern Ukraine defaming them as ‘Nazi-collaborators’ and ‘russophobic’ agents on the other.