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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jewish scouting is a phenomenon that has not been properly investigated, even though Czechoslovak and French Jewish scouts used to work on hundred places in Czechoslovakia and France. Despite this fact, we know very little about their membership, structure and roles. Besides the usual scout program, Jewish organizations in Czechoslovakia had something unique — Zionist education as a prerequisite for resettling their members in Palestine.

In the heated times of the Cold War, two hypothetical schoolboys – Johnny in the United States and Ivan in the Soviet Union (USSR) – were both promised a school where they would learn in a new way. This new way – the technology of programmed instruction – was developed by the American behavioral psychologist Burrhus F. Skinner. It became popular globally over the 1960s and was promoted passionately in the United States and the USSR alike.

In line with our earlier work, we will take the material object – the technological device – and, more specifically, the sensorial and experiential dimensions expressed in media use as a point of departure for our reflections. Why would the sensorial and experiential dimensions of media use be a relevant point of departure for such reflections? And, by extension: why would such reflections help to theoretically frame media newness?

This contribution aims to shed light on how serving on the boards of local sporting associations enables some leaders to access the elite of international sport. The case of three international leaders (Louis Daugé, Teddy Kriegk, and Melchior de Polignac) is observed through a sociography of the presidents of sports clubs in the city of Reims, the regional sports capital of Champagne-Ardenne, where they were prominent figures and local elites.

ARPANET’s story is part of the Internet’s official heritage, as a first crucial step in its development. Janet Abbate’s seminal work Inventing the Internet (1999) has extensively covered its history and is still a landmark in this area. However, the 50th anniversary of ARPANET provides an opportunity to reflect on existing histories and to open up the debate to new perspectives and approaches. If we consider ARPANET as a first step towards the Internet, how did it determine – and how does it continue to determine – our current understanding of the Internet?

Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early-twentieth-century Luxembourg.