Research projects

New projects launched in 2018

04-201802-2022 (47 months )

Popkult60

A new 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 Europe in the 1960s.

leader Andreas Fickers —  Dietmar Hüser  
members Richard Legay —  Jessica Burton —  Vitus Sproten —  Benoît Majerus  
06-201812-2021 (43 months )

The history of justice in Luxembourg

At a press conference on 29 January 2018, Andreas Fickers (C²DH) and Félix Braz (Ministry of Justice) signed an agreement to launch a research project on the history of justice in Luxembourg.

leader Denis Scuto  
members Vera Fritz —  Elisabeth Wingerter —  Nina Janz  
06-201805-2022 (48 months )

100 years of BGL BNP Paribas in Luxembourg

leader Benoît Majerus  
09-201808-2022 (48 months )

Foreign workforce in the Minette during the inter-war period

Flows, mobility and networks of the foreign workforce in the cross-border steel basin of the Minette during the inter- war period
leader Arnaud Sauer  
09-201809-2019 (13 months )

Building a Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities online portal

leader Gerben Zaagsma  
08-201812-2022 (53 months )

75 ans de la Société Nationale des chemins de fer Luxembourgeois

leader Denis Scuto  
members Sebastien Moreau  
09-201812-2022 (53 months )

Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age: Sounds, Images, Ecologies, Practices and Materialities in Space and Time

leader Stefan Krebs  
01-201806-2021 (42 months )

Fiscal competition in the Benelux states – FISCOLUX/FISCOBENELUX

leader Elena Danescu  

Ongoing projects

07-201506-2020 (60 months )

Éischte Weltkrich

The digital exhibition Éischte Weltkrich: Remembering the Great War in Luxembourg is a project developed by the C²DH with the aim of addressing an important but neglected and understudied period in the country’s history.

leader Denis Scuto —  Andreas Fickers  
coordinator Sandra Camarda  
members Daniele Guido  
09-201708-2020 (36 months )

Impresso

Impresso is a 3-year collaborative research project between the Digital Humanities Laboratory at EPFL, the Institute for Computational Linguistics at Zurich University and the C²DH, fully funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

leader Marten Düring  
members Estelle Bunout —  Daniele Guido —  Lars Wieneke —  Thijs van Beek —  Paul Schroeder  
09-201508-2020 (60 months )

Memorecord

The Memorecord crowdsourcing initiative is part of the PhD research project entitled “Shaping a digital memory platform on migration narratives: A public history project on Italian and Portuguese migration memories in Luxembourg”, conducted by Anita Lucchesi at the University of Luxembourg’s Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund.

leader Anita Lucchesi  
09-201708-2021 (48 months )

Intertwined destinies, strengthened ties

Migration paths from Luxembourg to Brazil (1920-1965)
leader Dominique Santana  
10-201708-2021 (47 months )

Le goût de l'archive numérique

leader Frédéric Clavert  
10-201709-2021 (48 months )

175 Jahre Post & Telekommunikation in Luxemburg

leader Aurélia Lafontaine  
03-201708-2023 (78 months )

Digital History and Hermeneutics

leader Andreas Fickers  
coordinator Tim Van Der Heijden  
11-201611-2019 (37 months )

Walking the Line between Supervision and Promotion? Financial Regulation in Luxembourg, 1930s-1990s

leader Benjamin Zenner  
07-201701-2019 (18 months )

Podcasts about Pierre Werner

leader François Klein  
05-201512-2100 (1029 months )

Digital History Lab

leader Andreas Fickers  
members Andy O'Dwyer —  Max Kemman  
08-201408-2019 (60 months )

DARIAH

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
leader Andreas Fickers  
09-201608-2019 (36 months )

The Power of Non-Powers

The BENELUX nations' role in Early Cold War Europe-an Security Strategy (1948-1960)
leader Spero Paravantis  
01-201606-2019 (42 months )

BLIZAAR

Hybrid Visualization of Dynamic Multilayer Graphs
leader Marten Düring  

Projects completed in 2018

09-201408-2018 (48 months )

Fabricating modern societies (FAMOSO)

Industries of reform as educational responses to societal challenges

leader Karin Priem  
members Irma Hadzalic —  Frederik Herman —  Ira Plein —  Françoise Poos  
06-201611-2018 (30 months )

RANKE.2

Ranke.2 is a teaching platform that offers lessons on how to critically assess and work with digital historical sources.

leader Andreas Fickers  
members Stefania Scagliola —  Daniele Guido  
07-201606-2018 (24 months )

Luxembourg State Policy Towards Jews (1930s to 1950s)

leader Denis Scuto  
members Marc Gloden —  Marten Düring —  Narveen Kaur —  Vincent Artuso —  Jakub Bronec  
07-201406-2018 (48 months )

Devenir sage-femme, les enjeux de la professionnalisation des sages-femmes au Luxembourg -1800-1940

leader Manon Pinatel  
12-201609-2018 (22 months )

The BENELUX role in the development of a European Security Strategy (1950 to 1960)

leader Spero Paravantis  
members Branimir Stanimirov  

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