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    Popular Modernism: Edward Steichen as Curator-Artist

    13 May 2025

    Popular Modernism: Edward Steichen as Curator-Artist

    Talk by Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History, New York University Abu Dhabi, in the framework of the 70th Anniversary of “The Family of Man” exhibition and the FoMLEG Project.
    Event
    The Family of Man. Photo by Romain Girtgen

    21 January 2025

    What is the relevance of Edward Steichen’s ‘The Family of Man’ today?

    Talk by Dr Claude Ewert at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
    Thinkering
    Public History and Arts: How to Approach “Difficult” Histories by Myriam Dalal

    20 January 2025

    written by :
    Myriam Dalal

    Public History and Arts: How to Approach “Difficult” Histories

    Recording of the Research seminar with Myriam Dalal (15 January 2025).
    Thinkering
    Kaputt © Volker Schlecht 2016

    7 June 2024

    written by :
    Ira Yeroshko

    Forced labor at GDR prison - animated in award-winning “Kaputt” animation

    How does one visualize the tragic past of the Hoheneck imprisoned forced laborers, a reality that remained unseen for years? Three German directors, Volker Schlecht, Max Mönch, and Alexander Lahl, took on this daunting task by conducting extensive oral history research and transforming their findings into the award-winning animation “Kaputt.”
    Thinkering
    Mariupol. A Hunder Nights

    7 June 2024

    written by :
    Ira Yeroshko

    Mariupol. A Hundred Nights - A Story Not Yet Forgotten

    Thoughts about the animation film "Mariupol. A Hundred Nights" by Sofiia Melnyk and Andrii Palatnyi portraying a young girl who loses her family and home in Mariupol following the Russian invasion in 2022.
    Forum Z
    A Hands-On exploration through Luxembourg’s virtual and real landscapes of digital developments in Education, Research and Culture

    1 February 2019

    written by :
    Juliane Tatarinov

    A Hands-On exploration through Luxembourg’s virtual and real landscapes of digital developments in Education, Research and Culture

    Who’s afraid of the Digital? This was the leading question of C²DH’s first Forum Z in 2019, organised by the Digital History Unit of the centre. Museum curators, schoolteachers, researchers and professional educators presented their projects in the House of Startups in Luxembourg City in the form of hands-on workstations followed by an round table discussing the merits of new digital projects with the audience in a casual atmosphere.
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    Hands on History logo

    11 January 2018

    The Historical Art of Projection. Digital and experimental approaches to the archaeology of the screen

    Hands-on History session with Karin Bienek and Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (University of Trier).
    Thinkering
    Video games as a real object of study: Some lessons from the Gamescom Congress 2017

    29 August 2017

    written by :
    Fabio Spirinelli

    Video games as a real object of study: Some lessons from the Gamescom Congress 2017

    Can video games be a serious research topic or are they only entertainment products? At the Gamescom Congress in Cologne, a series of talks and panel discussions were dedicated to video games from many different perspectives. In this blogpost, I will discuss some of them illustrating that video games can and should be taken seriously.
    Thinkering
    Rediscovering Pompeii digitally

    8 May 2017

    written by :
    Floor Koeleman

    Rediscovering Pompeii digitally

    Pompeian wall paintings as a source of inspiration for neo-classical domestic interior decorations; a digital approach to art history.