PhD theses
5 PhD(s) launched in 2021
Digital cultures and their development in Luxembourg (the 1990s to the present day)
Keywords:
Internet, Internet history, web history, web archives, digital cultures, digital humanities, digitalization, national domains
Experiencing the economic change in the “Belgian” departments united to France. Craftsmen and their social relationships facing the abolition of the guilds (1795-1814)
Keywords:
corporations; craftsmen; Ancien Régime; Low Countries; Belgium; Benelux; Abolition; Suppression; Social History; Economic History; Liberalism
Historical Data Visualization: Luxtime – A case study.
Keywords:
data visualization, data science, exposome, environmental cheminformatics, ecohydrology, interdisciplinary research
Lebensläufe von Patient*innen – Heterogenität der Institutionen
Keywords:
history from below, psychiatry, deinstitutionalization, Belgium, Brussels, 20th century, life paths, mental health
Navigating polyvocality in the historical museumscape: a study of public participation in historical and cultural institution
Keywords:
Public participation, historical museum, historiography, polyvocality, public history
13 on going PhD(s)
Bypassing Interwar Borders: Alteration, Transgression, and Subversion in the Minett Region
Keywords:
Borders, clandestinity, iron and steel industry, interwar years, immigration police, interwar communism
Called to arms – Coping strategies of soldiers and recruits from Luxembourg in WWII
Keywords:
Second World War, German occupation, Luxembourg, forced recruits, forced recruitment, gender, Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, RAD, KHD, Weiswampach, Schifflange, Bettembourg, statistics, war letters, biographies
Communication infrastructures in the context of maintenance and repair practices: the Luxembourg telephone system
Keywords:
telephone, repair andmaintenance, Luxembourg, networks
Flows, mobility and networks of the foreign workforce in the cross-border steel basin of the Minette during the inter- war period
Keywords:
Digital Humanities, Frontier, Nationality, Mobility, Immigration, Migration
History of investment funds in Luxembourg (1929-1989)
Keywords:
investment fund, UCITS, OPC, loi Holding, closed-end fund, open-end fund, mutual funds, European Union
La spoliation des biens juifs au Luxembourg pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale
Keywords:
spoliation, holocaust, Jewish, microhistory, quantitative, shoah
Laying the foundations of a modern city. Immigrant entrepeneurship and bourgeoisie in Esch-sur-Alzette. 1900-1940.
Looking for Luxembourg financial center : A urban inquiry 1945-2010
Keywords:
Financial center, Advanced Business Services, Economic clusters, Urban history, Financialization
Modelling Technocratic Reasoning in Dutch Parliamentary Debates (1917-2017)
Keywords:
technocracy, conceptual history, political history, nlp
Reconstructing Streets of Esch: Micro-History of a Living and Lived Space
Keywords:
Esch-sur-Alzette, Microhistory, Social History, Deep Mapping
Staying home - Families of Luxembourgish recruits and soldiers during the Nazi occupation (1940-1945)
Keywords:
Umsiedlung, Familienunterhalt, Repression, Support, Liminality, Situational Opportunism
Talking borders. From local expertise to global exchange
Keywords:
Citizen Science, Border Studies, History of Transformation, Eastern Europe, post-Soviet space
The Development of Urban Repair Networks: the City of Luxembourg and Esch-sur-Alzette
Keywords:
Repair, Everyday Life, Public History, Oral History
9 PhD(s) completed in 2021
Cultural and Educational Activities of the Jewish Population in Czechoslovakia and Luxembourg in (1945 -1990): Comparative study
Keywords:
Jewish history, Oral history, Contemporary history of Europe, Cultural studies
Emotional Design for Digital Cultural Heritage
Keywords:
human-computer interaction, user experience, cultural heritage, museums, user interfaces
Handel und Transport in Gallien, Germanien und Rätien
Keywords:
Handel, Transport, Wirtschaft, Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Römisches Reich, Gallien, Germanien, Rätien, Antike
Historical Network Analysis
Keywords:
Network Analysis, Machine Learning, Hermeneutics, Digital History, Computational Social Science
Text mining a corpus of Australian Aboriginal autobiographies (working title)
Keywords:
Natural language processing, text mining, digital humanities, topic modelling, word embeddings, vector space model
The epistemology of historical representations in digital environments
Keywords:
digital history, philosophy of the social sciences, epistemology, philosophy of mind, big data, visualizations
The history of the épuration in Luxembourg. Strategies of purge and denazification through the example of justice and police
Keywords:
archives, collaboration, history of justice, nation-building, post-war era, social history, transnationalism, contemporary history of Luxembourg
Visualizing Visions: Re-viewing the seventeenth-century genre of 'constcamer' paintings
Keywords:
Digital humanities, art history, datasets, museum collections, interactive visualizations
“The pleasure which one feels in recognizing an agreement with his own views in the mind of a distinguished man at a distance”. A transnational perspective on psychiatric knowledge dissemination across Europe (1840s-1925)
Keywords:
Transnational history, History of psychiatry, History of medicine, Knowledge circulation, Digital history, Social Network Analysis, Visualisation, Text mining