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Research projects

In 2022, the centre launched 12 new projects in contemporary and digital history, pursued 22 projects and closed 2 projects. All the projects are approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together historians, data scientists and web developer together to co-design new forms and formats of historical knowledge. 

12 new projects launched in 2022

→ (10 months)
A Colônia Luxemburguesa & [L]aço
Leader: Dominique Santana
Member: Dominique Santana
→ (49 months)
L’histoire coloniale du Luxembourg
Leader: Denis Scuto
Members: Denis Scuto, Kevin Goergen
→ (36 months)
Making shell companies visible. Digital history as a tool to make fiscal optimisation historically tangible.
Leader: Benoît Majerus
Members: Lars Wieneke, Victoria Mouton
→ (36 months)
Bureaucracy by Design? EU Office Interiors as an Interface Between Architectural “Hardware” and Managerial “Software”, 1951-2002
Leader: Andreas Fickers
Members: Andreas Fickers, Jens van de Maele
→ (78 months)
Data Science of Digital History
Leader: Andreas Fickers
Members: Andreas Fickers, Gerben Zaagsma, Frédéric Clavert, Marten Düring, Florentina Armaselu, Valérie Schafer, Sean Takats
→ (36 months)
Facing the past. public history for a stronger Europe
Leader: Thomas Cauvin
Members: Ghislain Sillaume, Thomas Cauvin
→ (24 months)
Histoire de la Chambre des Salariés (1924-2024)
Leader: Denis Scuto
→ (48 months)
Mémorial digital de la Shoah au Luxembourg
Leader: Denis Scuto
Member: Denis Scuto
→ (13 months)
Exposition sur l'architecture et l'évolution urbaine de la Ville de Esch-sur-Alzette
Leader: Denis Scuto
Member: Denis Scuto
→ (48 months)
Spoliation et vie juive au Luxembourg (1920-1960)
Leader: Andreas Fickers
Members: Denis Scuto, Benoît Majerus, Christoph Brüll
→ (48 months)
The Transformation of ARBED 1973-2001. A trans-European business and labour history
Leader: Machteld Venken
Member: Nicolas Arendt
→ (12 months)
The Hard Minette Land
Leader: Denis Scuto
Member: Denis Scuto

22 ongoing projects

→ (60 months)
Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator
Leader: Sean Takats
Members: Sean Takats, Clare Jaquith, Lorella Viola, Mariella De Crouy Chanel
→ (60 months)
Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past
Leader: Thomas Cauvin
Member: Stefan Krebs
→ (59 months)
Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age: Sounds, Images, Ecologies, Practices and Materialities in Space and Time
Leader: Stefan Krebs
Members: Denis Scuto, Karin Priem, Christoph Brüll, Valérie Schafer, Maxime Derian, Viktoria Boretska, Julia Harnoncourt, Irene Portas, Daniel Richter
→ (241 months)
Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
Leader: Andreas Fickers
Member: Andreas Fickers
→ (48 months)
Projet Scientifique Gilbert Trausch
Leader: Andreas Fickers
Member: Lars Wieneke
→ (48 months)
Repairing Technology – Fixing Society? History of Maintenance and Repair in Luxembourg (1918-1990)
Leader: Stefan Krebs
Members: Stefan Krebs, Thomas Hoppenheit, Rebecca Mossop
→ (78 months)
Digital History and Hermeneutics
Leader: Andreas Fickers
Members: Jan Lotz, Jakub Bronec, Sytze Van Herck, Antonio Fiscarelli, Shohreh Haddadan, Kaarel Sikk, Sam Mersch, Thomas Durlacher, Marleen De Kramer, Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Floor Koeleman, Eva Andersen, Juliane Tatarinov
→ (49 months)
Soldiers and their communities in WWII: The impact and legacy of war experiences in Luxembourg
Leader: Denis Scuto
Members: Denis Scuto, Nina Janz, Michel Romain Pauly
→ (49 months)
Who Cares in Europe?
Leader: Benoît Majerus
→ (48 months)
Tri-national doctoral school Docteuropa / L'histoire internationale par l'interdisciplinarité : Perspectives franco-allemandes et européennes au XXe siècle
Leader: Andreas Fickers
→ (36 months)
Histoire institutionnelle de l’Inspection du Travail et des Mines
Leader: Denis Scuto
→ (49 months)
Histoire de la spoliation des biens juifs au Grand Duché de Luxembourg (années trente - années cinquante)
Leader: Denis Scuto
Members: Denis Scuto, Blandine Landau
→ (37 months)
Soviet Forced Labourers in Luxembourg during the WW2
Leader: Inna Ganschow
→ (34 months)
Building the RRCHNM / C2DH Strategic Alliance
Leader: Andreas Fickers
→ (36 months)
Historiographien, Praktiken und Ästhetiken einer Entgrenzung
Leader: Benoît Majerus
Member: Benoît Majerus
→ (36 months)
Populärkultur transnational - Europa in den langen 1960er Jahren
Leader: Andreas Fickers
→ (48 months)
Luxembourg Time Machine
Leader: Andreas Fickers
Members: Andreas Fickers, Lars Wieneke
→ (36 months)
A history of online virality
Leader: Valérie Schafer
→ (60 months)
SOCIAL POLITICS IN EUROPEAN BORDERLANDS. A COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDY, 1870S-1990S
Leader: Machteld Venken
→ (56 months)
Europe Direct Centre at the University of Luxembourg
Leader: Elena Danescu
Members: Elena Danescu, Sonia Golini
→ (48 months)
Augmented Artwork Analysis, Computer-aided Interpretation device for art images
Leader: Lars Wieneke
→ (49 months)
Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change
Leader: Frédéric Clavert

2 projects completed in 2022

→ (48 months)
Populärkultur transnational - Europa in den langen 1960er Jahren
Leader: Andreas Fickers
Members: Benoît Majerus, Andreas Fickers, Richard Legay, Jessica Burton
→ (54 months)
Intertwined destinies, strengthened ties: Migration paths from Luxembourg to Brazil (1920-1965)
Leader: Denis Scuto
Member: Dominique Santana