C²DH Scholarly events

International conference #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age. Organised, introduced and moderated by Gerben Zaagsma (C²DH). Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University).

Presentation of De Gruyter New Book Series Migrations in History. Organised by the American History Association in cooperation with Machteld Venken (C²DH).

REPAIR, a project presentation. Research seminar with Stefan Krebs, Rebecca Mossop, Thomas Hoppenheit (C²DH).

Pandemic Digital Archives, Metadata, and Ethics in a Post-Truth Age. Hands on History session with Marc Tebeau (Arizona State University).

Exhibition Between Shade and Darkness. Created by the Musée National de la Résistance, the exhibition was displayed at the Maison du Savoir.

From digitised sources to digital data: Behind the scenes of (critically) enriching a digital heritage collection. Research seminar with Lorella Viola (C²DH).

Towards critical web archive research. Hands on History session with Dr. Anat Ben-David (The Open University of Israel).

International online conference Exhibiting European History and Memories in the Digital Age. Organised, introduced and moderated by Elena Danescu (C²DH & EDIC). In partnership with: the House of European History, the European Parliamentary Research Service, Europeana, the Representation of the European Commission in Luxembourg, the European Museum Schengen and Europe Direct Schengen. Speakers: Constanze Itzel (Museum Director of the House of European History), Etienne Deschamps (Historian in the European Parliamentary Research Service), Douglas McCarthy (Collections Engagement Manager at the Europeana Foundation). Concluding remarks – Ludovic Delepine. 

Pandemic Digital Archives, Metadata, and Ethics in a Post-Truth Age. Hands on History session with Mark Tebeau (Arizona State University) - online event.

Scholars as Bricoleurs: The Plurality of Digital Humanities. Lecture by Dr. Smiljana Antonijević. The event was part of the C²DH lecture series 'New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities'.

Inaugural workshop of a new ERC project, “Social politics in European borderlands, 1870s–1990s: A comparative and transnational study” (SOCIOBORD). C²DH Professor Machteld Venken leads a work package within the project.

Workshop: At work in the library: intellectual and material practices of historians in the 20th century. Organised by the Gilbert Trausch research group at the University of Luxembourg.

Les sociétés industrielles et les pouvoirs publics face à la question du logement ouvrier. Remix guest lecturer: Antoinette Lorang.

Berlin: The Rome of Contemporary History. Research seminar with Hanno Hochmuth.

International online conference L’Union économique belgo-luxembourgeoise (UEBL) - Leçons du passé, perspectives d’avenir. Organised, introduced and moderated by Elena Danescu (C²DH & EDIC). In partnership with: the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Belgium Ambassy in Luxembourg. Welcome by Andreas Fickers (C²DH). Speakers: André Biever (Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs), Franz Clément, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, S.E.M. Thomas Lambert, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to the Grand-duchy of Luxembourg).

A trading zone? Collaborative work and the UNSURE project. Organised by Lars Wieneke (Internal event).

International online conference Librorum : My life as a woman in politics by Astrid Lulling. Jointly organised by the Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg and the European Parliament office in Luxembourg. Speakers: Astrid Lulling (former member of the European Parliament), Monica Baldi and Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (European Parliament), Elena Danescu (University of Luxembourg).

Wissenschaftliches Symposium Geschichte der Burg St.Vith. Organised by C2DH.

Material Cultures of Psychiatry. Webinar to discuss the book 'Material Cultures of Psychiatry' edited by Monika Ankele and Benoît Majerus and published with Transcript.

"A Malignant Destiny": Recovering from Ireland's National Archival Tragedy of 1922 through the 'Beyond 2022'. Hands on History session with Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin) - online event.

D'Groussherzogin Marie Adelheid: Hir politesch Roll vun 1912 bis 1919. Conference with Josiane Weber, organised by Let's talk about History! with the support of the C²DH.

Big Data, Little Data, or No Data? Scholarship, Stewardship, and Humanities Research. Lecture by Prof. Dr Christine L. Borgman (Center for Knowledge Infrastructures at UCLA). Closing lecture in the C²DH lecture series 'New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities'.

The Coaching in an interdisciplinary research centre. Research seminar with Hervé Muller.

International online conference Luxembourg Diplomacy at Work: Memoirs of Ambassadors. Organised, introduced and moderated by Elena Danescu (C²DH& EDIC). In partnership with: the C²DH, the Luxembourg Cercle Diplomatique and the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Luxembourg. Speakers: Hubert Wurth (Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg), François Klein (research specialist at the C²DH, coordinator of the oral history research project “Memories of Ambassadors”), Manuel Gomes Samuel (Consul General of Portugal to Luxembourg).

Conference "Romania and Luxembourg - Connecting Memory, Sharing History(es)". Organised by Elena Danescu (C²DH& EDIC).

Digital Cultural Heritage: the case of the Rijksmuseum’s past, present and future. Lecture by Saskia Scheltjens, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, about the role of information and data science within cultural heritage. The lecture is the 3rd event in the lecture series "New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities" by the C²DH.

A Migrant’s Story: Digital Archives, the Other, and the Wokeward Shift. Hands on History session with Adam Crymble (University College London) - online event.

Luxembourg, the first capital of a united Europe. 1st edition of the EDIC's "Robert Schuman Lecture". Organised, introduced and moderated by Elena Danescu (C²DH& EDIC). In partnership with partners based in based in Luxembourg – the Representation of the European Commission and the European Parliament Liaison Office in Luxembourg, the Fondation du Mérite Européen, the European Movement, the Robert Schuman Initiative for European Affairs (University of Luxembourg), the Robert Schuman House in Luxembourg (University / Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History), the European Museum Schengen and EDIC Schengen, and wit partners based in Europe – the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence, Europeana Digital Library, the European Parliament Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services, the Archives of the European Parliament, the European Parliament Network of Political Houses and Foundations of Great Europeans, the Robert Schuman House in Scy-Chazelles and the Moselle département (France). Keynote speaker: Sylvain Schirmann (honorary director of Sciences Po Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Robert Schuman House in Scy-Chazelle). Video message by Xavier Bettel (Prime Minister of Luxembourg). Speakers: Stéphane Pallage (rector of the University of Luxembourg); Étienne Deschamps (historian in the European Parliamentary Research Service), Dieter Schlenker (director of the Historical Archives of the European Union, Florence), Martine Reicherts (president of the Luxembourg National Research Fund), Stephan Koppelberg (acting representative of the European Commission in Luxembourg).

Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, The State and Everyday Life in Socialist and Post Socialist Romania. Lecture by Jill Massino, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Organised by Adelina Stefan (C²DH) as part of the Europe Seminar Talk Series.

Immigration et représentations sociales. Approches socio-historiques. Webinaire du Dr. Piero-D. Galloro dans le cadre de "FLUXUS – Série de conférences au sujet des migrations et des frontières dans l’espace de la Grande Région".

Sound-writing machines and pneumatic gramophones: unearthing histories of use and tacit skills for the DEMA project. Research seminar with Aleksander Kolkowski.

Towards the UniGR-CBS Working Group 'Border Temporalities'. Seminar UniGR-Center for Border Studies in cooperation with the C²DH.

Erasmus Plus annual online conference. Organiser and keynote speaker Elena Danescu (C²DH& EDIC). In partnership with: Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, the University of Göttingen (Germany), the University of Luxembourg, the University of Coimbra (Portugal),  Universiy of Iasi (Romania),  the University of Vigo (Spain).

Presentation of the Journal of Digital History. Workshop organised by Frédéric Clavert at the University of Sussex.

'Sesame Street' and the transnational archive(s): digital, analogue, messy. Hands on History session with Helle Strangaard Jansen (Aarhus University) - online event.

Immigration et représentations sociales. Approche socio-historique. FLUXUS conference with Piero E. Galloro (Université de Lorraine - Metz)

Inaugural workshop of a new ERC project “Social politics in European borderlands, 1870s–1990s: A comparative and transnational study” (SOCIOBORD) organised by European University Institute (EUI) in partnership with C²DH. Organised by Machteld Venken (C²DH).

International round table Different Cultures in Digital History organised by C²DH in partnership with the Center for Digital Humanities (Perm State University, Russia). Moderated by Frédéric Clavert (C²DH) and Nadezhda Povroznik (Center for Digital Humanities). Speakers: Valérie Schäfer (C²DH), Leonid Borodkin (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Hannu Salmi (University of Turku), Peter Gautschi (University of Teacher Education, Luzern), Mareike König (German Historical Institute, Paris).

Europe Seminar Talk Series: Superstate or Tool of Nations? Rethinking the History of European Union by Kiran Klaus Patel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Organised by Adelina Stefan.

Collecting Craft Beer History at the Smithsonian. Hands on History session with Theresa McCulla (Smithsonian Museum) - online event.

Workshop Digitising Industrial Heritage organised by the REMIX team (C²DH). Venue: University of Luxembourg and online. Speakers: Viktoria Boretska, Christoph Brüll, Maxime Derian, Julia Harnoncourt, Stefan Krebs, Irene Portas, Daniel Richter, Lars Schoenfelder, Werner Tschacher and Jens van de Maele (C²DH), Patricia Marx (Ministry of Higher Education and Innovation), Lidia Gryszkiewicz and Giny Laroche (The Impact Lab), Stefan Moitra (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum), Stefan Siemer, Martin Munke (Technische Universität Dresden), Anastasia Kholiavka and Iryna Sklokina (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv). Final comment: Hanno Hochmuth (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam).

Mainstream vs marginal content in Web history and Web archives. 4th RESAW Conference. Remote conference organised by the C²DH.

Online conference Luxembourg: from steel to the knowledge economy and beyond. Organised, introduced and moderated by Elena Danescu (C²DH& EDIC). In partnership with:  the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and the Luxembourg national innovation agency Luxinnovation. Speakers: Franz Clément (LISER), Elena Danescu.

From Kinora to Small-Gauge: An Experimental Media Archaeological Approach to Early-Twentieth Century Home Cinema. Research seminar with Tim van der Heijden.

'The Romanticism of Hell'. Environmental History of the Saar-region in the 19th-century. Lecture by Markus Lay, office manager of Saarland’s historical commission. The online event is part of the REMIX lecture series.

"Tensions of Europe" online workshop Data as a new resource? Similarities and differences of data vs. material resources organised by C²DH and Eindhoven University of Technology. Organiser for the C²DH: Valérie Schafer.

International conference The emergence of the new Luxembourgish diplomacy – challenges, strategies, key figures. Organised, introduced and moderated by Elena Danescu (C²DH& EDIC). In partnership with: C²DH, the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Luxembourg National Archives and the Luxembourg Cercle Diplomatique. Speakers: Corinne Schroeder (Luxembourg National Archives -ANLux), Paul Schmit (Ambassador), Georges Santer (Ambassador, former General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs), Emmanuelle de Foy (First Counsellor at the Belgian Embassy in Luxembourg).

The C²DH hosted the 6th Historical Network Research conference „Historical Networks – Réseaux Historiques – Historische Netzwerke“. Co-organised by the Historical Network Research Community and Réseaux et Histoire. Organiser for C2DH: Marten Düring.

"Tensions of Europe" online workshop "Web archiving of the COVID crisis in Europe. Infrastructures, agencies, challenges and tension" organised by WARCnet and C²DH. Organiser for the C²DH: Valérie Schafer.

Journées d'étude Déposséder/Dépossédé. Journées d’étude internationales consacrées aux mécanismes de dépossession et à leur représentation en Europe pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Événement organisé conjointement par le C²DH et le Centre national de littérature (Mersch). 

Neue Perspektiven auf die Geschichte des Bergbaus an der Saar (Werkstattbericht). Lecture by Birgit Metzger, cultural scientist and historian. The online event is part of the REMIX lecture series.

International Migration Research Network Annual Conference “Crossing Borders, Connecting Cultures” co-organised by the C²DH. Lorella Viola and Machteld Venken (C²DH) organised the panel series “Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age: Theories, Concepts and Methods”.  Speakers: Arnaud Sauer, Machteld Venken and Lorella Viola (C²DH), Gunnar Thorvaldsen (Arctic University of Norway), Cristina Blanco Sío-López (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Outi Kähäri (University of Oulu) and Kristel Edelman (Tallinn University), Marijke van Faassen (Huygens ING) and Rik Hoekstra (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam ),  Koen Leurs (Utrecht University), Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics), Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan University), Akram Khater (North Carolina State University), Jana Keck (German Historical Institute Washington. Venue: University of Luxembourg.

The Representation of Borders in Industrial Films on the Saarland’s Heavy Industry (1931-2019). FLUXUS webinar by Isis Luxenburger; a doctoral researcher in the International Research Training Group “Diversity. Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” at Saarland University, the University of Trier and the University of Montreal. Organised by Arnaud Sauer (C²DH).

International workshop Histories of Maintenance and Repair organised by the research team “Repairing Technology – Fixing Society. History of Repair in Luxembourg” (C²DH). Introduction by Stefan Krebs (C²DH) and Mark Thomas Young (University of Bergen). Speakers: Thomas Hoppenheit (C²DH) Sangwoon Yoo (Hanbat National University), Liliana Gil (The New School), Kostas Latoufis (National Technical University of Athens), Aristotle Tympas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), and Yovanna Pineda (University of Central Florida), Laura Meneghello (Siegen University), Martin Meiske (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) and Amanda Mcmillan Lequieu (Drexel University).

Laying the foundations of a modern city. Middle-classes/Bourgeoisie and entrepreneurship in early 20th century Esch-sur-Alzette (1900-1940). Research seminar with Suzana Lopes Ferreira Cascao.

The European Union Pavilions in Word Expos, 1958-2010. 'Europe' seminar with Anastasia Remes, European University Institute. Organised by Oana Adelina Stefan (C²DH)

Public History in der Lehre. Workshop veranstaltet von Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers (C²DH, Universität Luxemburg), Irmgard Zündorf (ZZF Potsdam) in Kooperation mit der AG Angewandte Geschichte/Public History.

Eichmann in the Cold War - a DVD film project. Hands on History Lecture with Irmgard Zündorf, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF).

Gerschenkron’s Blind Spot: Secret Reserves and the Relevance of Internal Financing in the German Chemical Industry, c.1885–1904. By Frédéric Steinfeld. C²DH Finlux Seminar.

International Workshop "Zwangssoldaten, Malgré-Nous, Zwangsrekrutéiert? - Terms, Numbers and Statistics" organised by WARLUX team (Nina Janz, Michel R. Pauly) and Denis Scuto. Speakers: Denis Scuto, Christoph Brüll, Michel R. Pauly (C²DH), Peter M. Quadflieg (Hesse State Archive, Wiesbaden), Jean-Noël Grandhomme (University of Lorraine), Paul Dostert (Grand Ducal Insitute), Eva Maria Klos (University of Trier), Erny Lamborelle (Fédération des enrôlés de force), Thierry Grosbois (University of Luxembourg), Fréderic Stroh (University of Strasbourg).

The Aesthetics of Smoke in Interwar Luxembourgish Literature. Lecture by Dr Anne-Marie Millim, Assistant Professor in English Studies at the University of Luxembourg. The hybrid event is part of the REMIX lecture series.

Intellectual and Material Practices of an Historian in the 20th Century: The Case of Gilbert Trausch. Research seminar with Renée Wagener and Wolfgang Freund.

Luxembourg and Ireland in Global Financial Networks: Analysing the Changing Structure of European Investment Funds. By Dariusz Wójcik. C²DH Finlux Seminar.

L’accès aux archives publiques en France: retour sur les dernières évolutions. Hands in History avec Prof. Raphaëlle Branche, professeure d’histoire contemporaine à l’Université de Paris Nanterre et membre de l’Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique (CNRS).

Rëm.xx: Rumelange, a post-industrial town and its cultural heritage revisited. Lecture by Giny Laroche , co-founding partner of The Impact Lab. The hybrid event is part of the REMIX lecture series.

A Europeanisation of the Comics Industry: The Franco-Belgian School as a Foundation of a European Cultural Identity through Media in the 1960s. Research seminar with Jessica Burton, PhD candidate at the C²DH.

Producing & Interpreting Networks of Journal Articles in Psychology, 1887-1902. Hands on History session with Prof. Dr. Christopher Green, professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

EU DataViz is an international conference on open data and data visualisation organised by the Publications Office of the European Union, in partnership with the C²DH.

Peripherien im Zentrum. Schulbildung im Grenzland im Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit. Webinar von Machteld Venken im Rahmen von «FLUXUS - Série de conférences portant sur les migrations et les frontières dans l’espace de la Grande Région».

Global Correspondent Banking in the 20th century: the position of Luxembourg. By Thibaud Giddey and Catherine R. Schenk. C²DH Finlux Seminar.

L’essor de la sidérurgie luxembourgeoise du XIXe siècle au début du XXe siècle. Les conditions de développement technique et économique du Bassin Minier. Conférence de Jacques Maas, assistant de recherche au C²DH. L'événement hybride fait partie de la série de conférences REMIX.

Book presentation "Geschichte und Architektur Stadtführer Esch/Alzette“ with the authors Denis Scuto, Georges Büchler, Jean Goedert, Antoinette Lorang and Antoinette Reuter. Organised by Denis Scuto (C²DH).

Book presentation Histoire de la justice au Luxembourg (1795 à nos jours) with Denis Scuto, Vera Fritz, Denis Scuto et Elisabeth Wingerter (C²DH). Organised by C²DH in partnership with the Luxembourg Ministry of Justice.

Luxembourg in Europe and in the world – a historical overview of the country’s socio-economic development from the 19th to the 21st century. C²DH Winter Online Lecture Series on Europe with  Franz Clément (LISER) as guest lecturer.

International online conference Participation and public interpretations: How to navigate multiple historical narratives in museums?. Organised and moderated by Thomas Cauvin (C²DH). Scientific Committee: Thomas Cauvin, George Lawson, Camilla Elisa Portesani, Valérie Schafer, Lars Wieneke (C²DH), Anna Adamek (Ingenium Canada), Blandine Smilansky (House of European History, Belgium), Emilie Sitzia (Maastricht University). Funded by an ATTRACT grant from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR).

Internatonal online conference Brexit Reality Portraits. Organised, introduced and moderated by Elena Danescu (C²DH-EDIC). In partnership with: the C²DH,  the Young European Movement UK, the European Movement Luxembourg, the European Parliament and the EPP Group in the European Parliament. Speakers: Thomas Cauvin and Elena Danescu (C²DH) , Christophe Hansen (Luxembourgish politician), Catherine Léglu (University of Luxembourg), Martine Reicherts (European Movement), Alexiane Terrochaire-Barbançon (Young European Movement UK).

International workshop Talking stock an European Memory Policy. Co-organised by the Research Service of the European Parliament, the House of European History and the European Observatory on Memory (EUROM) (Elena Danescu).

Workshop: A socio-historical database of Dudelange, 1870s-1930s, Lorella Viola, Machteld Venken (C²DH).

Art in the construction of a European identity – a case study from the Court of Justice of the European Union. C²DH Winter Online Lecture Series on Europe with guest lecturer Sara Afonso Ferreira, Art Historian at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJUE).

Construire des politiques sociales dans un contexte frontalier: le cas des ouvrier·e·s belges dans le Nord de la France. Webinaire du Dr. Claudine Marissal (EUI) dans le cadre de "FLUXUS – Série de conférences au sujet des migrations et des frontières dans l’espace de la Grande Région".

The European Investment Bank (EIB), an unknown player in the European integration process?. C²DH Winter Online Lecture Series on Europe with guest lecturer: Bruno Rossignol, Head of Programme for Climate and Heritage at the EIB Institute.

Eastern Europe 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union: Hopes and disappointments of the democratic transition. C²DH Winter Online Lecture Series on Europe with guest lecturer: Dr Andrey Grachev, Russian journalist.

Making History Together: Public Participation in Museums. International online symposium organised by C²DH.