Enseignement et l'apprentissage

First summer school to be organised in the EUROPAST training programme led by the C²DH.

The Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, the C²DH, Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre, the International Federation for Public History, and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to participate in the sixth Public History Summer School to be held in hybrid format.

This MA course focuses on transnational European history during the Cold War and its aftermath and is available as an Open Educational Resource.

New book edited by Michelle Margolis, Amalia S. Levi, Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup and Gerben Zaagsma. 

Inaugural colloquium / Iнавгураційний колоквіум. 1st of August 2022 / 1 серпня 2022

As the C²DH celebrates its fifth anniversary, we asked one of our first PhD students, Max Kemman, about his memories of his time at the centre.

The Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, Poland, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg (C²DH), Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre, the International Federation for Public History, and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to participate in the fifth Public History Summer School to be held in hybrid format (on-site and on-line), 6–10 June 2022.

Former C²DH PhD candidate Vitus Sproten’s thesis on the history of free radios in the Netherlands, Belgium and North Rhine-Westphalia wins the ‘excellent thesis award’ granted by the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Together with students, the WARLUX team researches the personal side of the history of Luxembourgers, born between 1920 and 1927, who were enrolled into German services during the Second World War. To uncover the individual experiences of these men, women and families, the team of WARLUX collects ego documents and personal interviews of this generation. As one of the last surviving witnesses, Madame Jacoby-Sheehan welcomed Dr Nina Janz and Cristina Sobral to talk about her war experience.

Traitement et analyse des déclarations d’arrivée des étrangers au Luxembourg à travers les archives de la commune de Dudelange, par le biais de l’utilisation de l’outil de l’interprétation et visualisation des données Nodegoat.

Visiting Research Fellow, Nicole Basaraba, examined how historians and anthropologists can remix industrial history into a mobile application designed for public engagement.

During the summer semester we co-taught a course called The Recurated Museum, which explored the evolving role of museums in digital spaces. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic mid-semester and the subsequent explosion of movements like #MuseumAtHome and #CultureChezNous, we directly confronted many of the ideas we featured in class in a way that we could not have previously imagined.

On 13 May 2020, the C²DH hosted a first Webex study day for MA students on the “Displacement, resettlement, verification and nationalization after the Second World War” course taught by Professor Machteld Venken and Professor Denis Scuto.

Seminar für Bachelor- und Masterstudierende der Universität Luxemburg und der Derzhavin-Universität Tambow.

Premiere of the interactive documentary produced on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.

The C²DH announces a Summer School co-organised with the European University Institute (Florence) and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt), to be held at the Maison Robert Schuman in Luxembourg City from 22 to 26 June 2020. This Summer School invites participants to test digital tools and methods for oral history and stresses how digital oral sources contribute to narratives in European Integration History.

On 14 and 15 November 2019, the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt am Main organised a research symposium on “Open Practices in Education (OPINE)”. The symposium raised fundamental questions about open science, open education and open scholarship.

The impresso team has prepared a guide for scholars on using collections of digitised newspapers as historical sources, published on the PARTHENOS platform.

Report of the summer school run by the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation – Global Campus of Human Rights.

The members of the DTU-DHH were welcomed by fellow Digital Humanists at the Trier Center for Digital Humanities. Two things everybody knew after our stay: who Arthur Schnitzler was and what the German word “Brötchen” means!