Thinkering

Historesch Gesinn is a platform that aims to build a bridge between researchers and the general public. It has now been enriched with an “Identify” feature.

The “Dancing Esch” research project studies the festive sociabilities of the Luxembourgish mining basin during the 1920-1980. It focuses on popular balls in Esch-sur-Alzette, a town shaped by the mining and steel industry.

How does one visualize the tragic past of the Hoheneck imprisoned forced laborers, a reality that remained unseen for years? Three German directors, Volker Schlecht, Max Mönch, and Alexander Lahl, took on this daunting task by conducting extensive oral history research and transforming their findings into the award-winning animation “Kaputt.”

Thoughts about the animation film "Mariupol. A Hundred Nights" by Sofiia Melnyk and Andrii Palatnyi portraying a young girl who loses her family and home in Mariupol following the Russian invasion in 2022.

Time travelling on the Belval campus through an innovative new card game.

The ‘lovó’ project aims to use oral history and art to put forward several voices of Portuguese speaking grandmothers who live in the city of Esch sur Alzette and have made this place their home.

This guide offers a method to develop more collaborative public projects on the history of cities, towns, neighborhoods, with local communities.

Can large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) unlock the secrets hidden within historical documents, such as showpeople periodicals? This question propelled researchers from the universities of Antwerp, Luxembourg, and Marburg to explore the potential of LLM/AI in a one-day workshop.

The VYSH project uses various artificial intelligence technologies to create embroidery designs for the stage costumes of the Luxembourg dance group Berehyni, which popularizes historical Ukrainian dances.

Dataset from the research project Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA) was recently published on Europeana, the online platform of cultural heritage.

The aim of the oral history programme about Luxembourg diplomacy, conducted by the C²DH with the support of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is to document the development of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Luxembourg’s foreign policy since the end of the Second World War.

Tropy is a digital tool designed specifically for managing and annotating digital images.

This Thinkering project draws upon Daniel Richter’s knowledge about the local history of Esch-sur-Alzette, Aida Horaniet Ibanez’s expertise in data visualization, and Joëlla van Donkersgoed’s experience in public engagement.

Memory has its own pitfalls, and to provide a more tangible environment for remembering, it was decided to perform oral history interviews for the ongoing research about the “Schueberfouer” funfair on site at the fairground. The assumption was that the space of the “Schueberfouer” could trigger memories and reflections that would otherwise not emerge. However, navigating through a noisy present can prove challenging.

Escher Kaffi is an experimental public history project funded by the C²DH’s Thinkering Grant to study ordinary sociality in a (post)industrial city undergoing fast infrastructural, urbanistic, demographic, and cultural transformations.

A contribution on office culture by BUREU team member Marco Ninno.

The newly started research project BUREU has the purpose to develop a transnational and multidisciplinary framework for the analysis of EU administrative buildings.

Five years C²DH – Five ways of innovating and sharing history.

“Deep Data Science of Digital History” (D4H) is a new Doctoral Training Unit funded through the FNR’s PRIDE programme, that will launch in autumn 2022.

This Hard Minett Land – Eine besondere Entdeckungsreise durch Luxemburgs Süden.