The idea for the FAMOSO projects originated in May 2010 when Dr Karin Priem, the principal investigator of the FAMOSO projects, was introduced to a huge holding of 2,251 glass plates archived at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) in Dudelange.
The initiatives for the Great War Centenary have offered an unprecedented chance to re-engage with an important but understudied period in Luxembourgish history. Based on research carried out by historians at the University of Luxembourg and with the support of the Ministry of State, in February 2016 the C²DH began developing a digital exhibition on the Great War in Luxembourg.
The persecution of the Jews by the Nazi regime occurred in occupied Luxembourg virtually throughout the Second World War. This event has been the focus of research for many years, but more recently historians have begun to look at the attitude of the Luxembourg authorities to the Jewish population. Following on from a number of publications on the topic, the C²DH will be running a research project intended to analyse “Luxembourg State policy towards from the 1930s to the 1950s”.
The field of digital humanities opens up a host of new possibilities for advancing knowledge in traditional humanities disciplines. But the implementation of new digital infrastructures and technologies does not always keep pace with their initial development; often researchers are required to spend time exploring the potential of these tools and learning how to use them effectively. The aim of the “Digital History & Hermeneutics” Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) is to address these methodological and epistemological challenges.
Historical newspapers are an essential source for scientific research, and new digitisation techniques can facilitate access to this material. But in practice, their use is often restricted by imperfect text recognition software, missing metadata and complicated search functions. These are the challenges being addressed by the research project impresso.
BLIZAAR is a research project on novel visualisation techniques for data generated in the fields of humanities and biology. The digitised sources in the CVCE’s collections on the European integration process contain a wealth of information on the interplay and relationships between thousands of people, institutions and locations. All these relationships can be seen as part of a large, highly complex network. The project uses this network to create new ways to search, explore and evaluate the content of the underlying collection.
Source criticism is a vital part of historians’ work, and it generally features in all historiography syllabuses. But how should historians approach the many digital sources that are now available to them online via countless servers – sources that often have no paper version and no precise archive location to help trace their origins and verify their authenticity?
Multimedia collections can provide researchers and the general public with vast quantities of written and audiovisual material – but exploring these reams of data in an effective way is not always an easy task.
The BENELUX nations' role in Early Cold War Europe-an Security Strategy (1948-1960)
The American impact on the European integration process in the early Cold War (Visiting Scholar appointment at the institute if European Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
A public history project on Italian and Portuguese migration memories
Migration paths from Luxembourg to Brazil (1920-1965)
Populärkultur transnational - Europa in den langen 1960er Jahren