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Digital history & historiography

The C²DH examines the consequences of the digital turn on historical research in a critical, experimental and interdisciplinary way. Cutting-edge research on new tools and practices of digital historiography is combined with new forms of public engagement and online presentation of research results.

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1 January 2022

written by :
Andreas Fickers

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory

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1 January 2022

written by :
Lorella Viola

DeXTER: A post-authentic approach to heritage visualisation

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Interdisciplinary Data Visualization

9 December 2021

Interdisciplinary Data Visualization

Research seminar with Aida Horaniet Ibanez.
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1 December 2021

written by :
Petros Apostolopoulos

What is the Public of Public History? Between the Public Sphere and Public Agency

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25 November 2021

written by :
Andreas Fickers

Wissenschaft heißt, Unsicherheit erzeugen, nicht Bekanntes zu reproduzieren… Ein Interview mit Andreas Fickers, Direktor des Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) in Luxemburg

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17 November 2021

written by :
Thomas Durlacher

Scientific Models, Computer Simulations, and Agent-Based Models. Hermeneutic and Analytic Perspectives.

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25 October 2021

written by :
Jakub Bronec

TRANSFORMATION OF JEWISH IDENTITY IN POST-WAR CZECH AND LUXEMBOURG GENERATIONS (1945-1990)

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Journal of Digital History logo

13 October 2021

written by :
Frédéric Clavert

Presenting the Journal of Digital History

The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is a joint initiative of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg and the De Gruyter publishing group. As an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal, it will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.
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Mandelbrotset part

5 October 2021

written by :
Florentina Armaselu, Andreas Fickers

Zoomland. Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities

Call for papers / Workshop & book project. The book will explore the epistemological dimensions, hermeneutic methods, empirical tools and aesthetic logic pertaining to the notion of scale in digital history and humanities, and will be published in open access with De Gruyter as part of the 'Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics' series.
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4 October 2021

written by :
Gerben Zaagsma

Keynote lecture: Exploring Jewish History in the Digital Age

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1 October 2021

written by :
Andreas Fickers, Frédéric Clavert

On pyramids, prisms, and scalable reading

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1 October 2021

written by :
Florentina Armaselu

The Digital Humanities Classroom as a “Node”. From Toolbox to Mindset?

The paper describes a framework for digital pedagogy and evaluation that combines different approaches – theoretical, application-oriented and project-based –, underpinned by a view of the digital humanities classroom metaphorically defined as a “node”.
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Trading Zonesof Digital History by Max Kemman

28 September 2021

written by :
Max Kemman

New publication: ‘Trading Zones of Digital History’ by Max Kemman

Volume 1 in the series 'Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics' published by De Gruyter Oldenburg.
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23 September 2021

written by :
Christopher Morse

Museum Meaning-making: Experience Design for Digital Cultural Heritage

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20 September 2021

written by :
Gerben Zaagsma

Exploring the History of Digital History

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16 September 2021

written by :
Gerben Zaagsma

Review of Adam Crymble: Technology and the Historian. Transformations in the Digital Age

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Eichmann in the Cold War - a DVD film project

9 September 2021

Eichmann in the Cold War - a DVD film project

Hands on History Lecture with Irmgard Zündorf, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF).
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Digital Roots cover

9 September 2021

written by :
Valérie Schafer

New publication: Digital Roots. Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age

Volume 4 in the series 'Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics' published by De Gruyter Oldenburg.
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30 August 2021

written by :
Florentina Armaselu

HISTORIAE, History of Socio-Cultural Transformation as Linguistic Data Science. A Humanities Use Case

The paper proposes an interdisciplinary approach including methods from disciplines such as history of concepts, linguistics, natural language processing (NLP) and Semantic Web, to create a comparative framework for detecting semantic change in multilingual historical corpora and generating diachronic ontologies as linguistic linked open data (LLOD).
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IMISCOE 2021 report

25 August 2021

written by :
Machteld Venken, Lorella Viola

Conference Report: Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age: Theories, Concepts and Methods

Lorella Viola and Machteld Venken (C²DH) organised the panel series “Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age: Theories, Concepts and Methods” at the International Migration Research Network Annual Conference (IMISCOE) on 7-9 July 2021 at the University of Luxembourg. The aim of the panel series was to explore how digital technologies have impacted migration history research.

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