Border studies

The interdisciplinary conference centralises the temporal dimension of borders, borderlands, and border regions in and beyond 19th and 20th century Europe. Organised by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN).

Research seminar with Irene Portas Vazquez, doctoral researcher at the C²DH.

Conference organised by the C²DH and the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN) on 15-16 December 2022 in Belval. Deadline for submission: 1 September.

On 24-25 March, the C²DH welcomed archivists and digital humanists to discuss collections informing the history of cross-border cooperation in the Greater Region.

Research seminar with Johanna Jaschik (PhD Candidate at the C²DH).

Report of the WARLUX workshop from 14 October 2021.

Aufzeichnunng des Webinars mit Machteld Venken vom 24. November 2021.

On 27 October, Machteld Venken was interviewed about her newest monograph ‘Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe’ on the New Books Review

Webinar von Machteld Venken im Rahmen von «FLUXUS - Série de conférences portant sur les migrations et les frontières dans l’espace de la Grande Région».

C²DH Professor Machteld Venken’s latest monograph: “Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe” (Berghahn Books, 2021) was published in March 2021 in golden open access.

Workshop organised by the WARLUX project team.

Randy Widdis, Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Regina in Canada, was invited to the C²DH in February 2020 for a “Hands-on History” lecture followed by a two-day workshop.

On 13 May 2020, the C²DH hosted a first Webex study day for MA students on the “Displacement, resettlement, verification and nationalization after the Second World War” course taught by Professor Machteld Venken and Professor Denis Scuto.