Public history

The C²DH is organising a temporary history lab on the Place de la Résistance in Esch-sur-Alzette. The lab will host a number of participatory events to explore the history and identity of the Minett: participants can take a picture of themselves and learn more about the exciting history of the selfie, record a text for a loved one with our sound postcards and learn about this forgotten history and technology, and experience a fascinating video installation with “Historical Voices from Esch”.

A hands-on demonstration of the Kinora Viewer Replica. This public online event shows the fruits of a recent successful collaboration between the C²DH and the Department of Engineering. Combining historical inquiry with a hands-on and technical approach - involving the latest 3D modelling and desktop manufacturing engineering techniques - a media historian and two engineers joined forces to produce a working replica of a very special object in the history of (early) cinema: the Kinora viewer.

On 17-18 December 2019, the first workshop of the DEMA project - Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory - project took place at the C²DH. For this workshop, specialists from the fields of media history, art history and the history of science were invited to share best practices and experiences in documenting hands-on and experimental research.

During the summer semester we co-taught a course called The Recurated Museum, which explored the evolving role of museums in digital spaces. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic mid-semester and the subsequent explosion of movements like #MuseumAtHome and #CultureChezNous, we directly confronted many of the ideas we featured in class in a way that we could not have previously imagined.

En 2017, POST Luxembourg a célébré son 175e anniversaire en tant qu’institution nationale autonome. Voilà le point de départ d’une collaboration entre l’établissement public et le C²DH, visant la création d’une exposition virtuelle retraçant l’histoire des postes et des télécommunications au Grand-Duché.

Immersion virtuelle dans le monde des timbres, du courrier, des télécommunications, satellites… et des hommes et femmes au service des citoyens luxembourgeois depuis 1842.

What better place to share the opportunities inherent in the digitisation of newspapers collections than an online event?

Andreas Fickers und Christoph Brüll sind die Autoren der achtteiligen Sendereihe „100 Jahre Ostbelgien“ die jeden 3. Mittwoch im Monat im BRF ausgestrahlt wird.

Earlier this year the REPAIR team invited fellow historians and friends to their first hands-on workshop: Repairing old radios and sensing history.

Why is history important? Why does society need history and historians? Read Fabio Spirinelli's personal answer as a historian and citizen.

Today, April 10, C²DH researchers launched the digital memory bank covidmemory.lu. The platform #covidmemory offers people living or working in Luxembourg the opportunity to share their personal experiences with one another and to archive them for future generations.

In this short Facebook-live video, Thomas Cauvin will present his forthcoming 5-year project on developing participatory practices in public history.

«Guide historique et architectural Esch-sur-Alzette»: à la découverte de l’histoire et du patrimoine architectural de la capitale du Bassin minier luxembourgeois.

The French national Thomas Cauvin, currently Professor of History at the University of Colorado and President of the International Federation for Public History, will join the C²DH at the University of Luxembourg thanks to an FNR ATTRACT fellowship endowed with 2 million euros (over five years).