Contemporary history of Europe

In recent years the buzzword in historical research has been "transnational history". Although over the past 15 years some historians have begun to integrate this perspective into the history of medicine and psychiatry, especially with respect to colonial history, this research area remains underdeveloped. It goes without saying that there have been transnational contacts and transfers of knowledge in the psychiatric field - translations of books, international conferences, correspondence, memberships in associations, international travel - but research on these processes remains rare. This raises the urgent question of how to approach research on psychiatric history with a transnational framework in mind.

Konferenz von Bodo Mrozek (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam)

The aim of the conference was generate and trace the “Provenance of Knowledge” as a core element in documentation. Provenance and Knowledge set a goal to verify the origins of the information and knowledge about an object which correlates to an idea in order to reconstruct the whole chain of creation, use, interpretation and dissemination of particularly information.

Le C²DH, l'Université Rennes 2 et l'Association des Archivistes français organisent le 14 novembre aux Archives Nationales (France, site de Pierrefitte-sur-Seine) une journée d'étude autour du livre en ligne, Le goût de l'archive à l'ère numérique.

Hartmut Kaelble is Emeritus Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Il y a des gens dont, pour le dire en termes crus, la gueule ne me revient pas. Sans que je sache nécessairement pourquoi. Un d’entre eux, avec sa gueule, ne me lâche pas depuis mes vacances en Italie cet été. Je n’arrive pas à m’en débarrasser. Il s’agit de l’homme politique italien d’extrême droite Matteo Salvini, chef de la Lega (Nord) et depuis juin vice-premier ministre et ministre de l’Intérieur.

The aim of the “Contemporary history in the digital era – sources, methodologies and criticism” day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018), the result of a partnership between the Universities of Lausanne and Luxembourg, the infoclio.ch website and the International Association of Contemporary History of Europe (IACHE), was to encourage collective reflection on the role of technological innovation in historical research, especially its influence on the historian’s relationship with primary sources.

The Tensions of Europe conference is organised biennially by an interdisciplinary community of scholars who study the shaping of Europe through the lens of technology and material culture. The 9th edition of the conference will be organised by the C²DH around the theme ‘Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age.

Vortrag von Dr. Kolja Lichy, organisiert von Let’s Talk about History!, mit Unterstützung des Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) und des Instituts für Geschichte der Universität Luxemburg.