Projects

The year 2019-20 marks the 100th anniversary of the three cantons Eupen, Malmedy, and Saint Vith becoming Belgian. This virtual exhibition will retell this century by means of a multimedia story aiming at reaching users with varying interests and degrees of expertise.

This project aims to study the potential of hands-on experimentation so as to better understand and experience the materiality of old media technologies and their practices of use. It will provide a systematic reflection on the methodological underpinnings of experimental media archaeology as a practical and sensorial approach to media...

The REPAIR project will be the first systematic historical study of repair practices, networks and infrastructures in the short 20th century. By revealing when, why and how technical objects were maintained, repaired or scrapped, the project will provide crucial insights into the historical and political contexts of the emergence of consumer...

The research project “Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age: Sounds, Images, Ecologies, Practices and Materialities in Space and Time” will be a sustainable contribution to the “European Capital of Culture Esch 2022” programme. Six sub-projects will explore the history of cultures, populations and territories of the Minette region...

Following its participation in the European Commission call for proposals in 2017, the University of Luxembourg was selected as a partner to run a Europe Direct Information Centre (EDIC) for the period 2019-2021. Based in the Luxembourg Learning Centre (LLC) on Belval Campus, EDIC is coordinated by the C²DH.

As a result of the digital turn the humanities are currently in a process of rapid transformation, with consequences that reach far beyond the confines of academia. This lecture series explores how the digital turn is changing research, teaching and dissemination in the humanities. The series will also endeavour to historicise and contextualise...

This project aims to document oral history content, methods, and uses in current C²DH projects and Luxembourg archives. With a focus on improving content management for both individual researchers and large repositories, the project will evaluate infrastructure and tool development needs for oral history preservation, storage, management and...

The aim of the project 'Competition, convergence, harmonisation – a comparative analysis of taxation in Benelux states (1945-1992)' is to perform a comparative historical analysis of the development and specific characteristics of taxation in Luxembourg in a multidimensional context – national (Luxembourg), regional (relations with...

The FNR-funded project will examine foreign workforce flows, mobility and networks in the cross-border steel basin of the Minette during the inter- war period.

This project looks back at the history of the Société nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL).

The project combines the theoretical aspects of historical, historiographical, linguistic and literary studies with digital tools and methods for text analysis and visualisation to analyse scale variations as manifested in historical discourse. Two types of corpora will be used: historiographical (historical writings that blend micro and global...

'The history of justice in Luxembourg – HISTJUST' is a research project in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and the National Archives. It aims to cover 200 years of justice history in Luxembourg by producing a virtual exhibition.

'Populärkultur transnational - Europa in den langen 1960er Jahren' - This interdisciplinary research group composed of members of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), the Institute for History at the University of Luxembourg and Saarland University will investigate transnational transfers of popular culture in...

Resistance and dissent in former socialist Europe 1945-1989 constitutes a remarkable chapter of Europe’s recent past, which not only informs in a decisive way the identities of post-socialist societies, but has also reshaped the continent as a whole and still provides an important reference for contemporary social movements worldwide. The main...

In 2017, POST Luxembourg celebrated its 175th anniversary. The project aims to trace the institution’s history from its early days as the state-owned Postal Administration to its current status as the country’s largest private employer, through a virtual exhibition and a PhD thesis.

The transmedia documentary “A Colônia Luxemburguesa” is designed to offer an interactive experience and a journey of discovery of the so-called Colônia Luxemburguesa, exploring a century of common industrial, cultural and social heritage. Supported by the C²DH, Samsa Film, and the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel...

The projects marks the centenary of BGL BNP Paribas in Luxembourg with a virtual exhibition tracing the bank’s history.

The aim of the project “Impresso: Media monitoring of the past. Mining 200 years of historical newspapers” is to link digitised corpora of newspapers from Switzerland, Luxembourg, France and Germany and to develop new methods to analyse them. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). See the impresso website for...