Industrial history

The Rust & Research Team, consisting of four doctoral candidates working at the C²DH, was awarded the Thinkering Grant earlier this year to develop a card game based on time travelling through the Luxembourg University campus of Belval. Since then, our in-house game creators have been hard at work.

Presentation of Current Research Projects by Zoé Konsbruck and Nicolas Arendt.

Research seminar with Philippe Blasen.

Time travelling on the Belval campus through an innovative new card game.

Film screening and lecture by Matteo Saltalippi and Greca Campus in the series "Confronting decline: Challenges of deindustrialisation in Western societies since the 1970s".

In June 2025, the C²DH will be hosting the international conference "Confronting Decline (CONDE) – Challenges of Deindustrialization in European Societies since the 1970s".

Lecture by Prof. Philipp Ther in the series "Confronting decline: Challenges of deindustrialisation in Western societies since the 1970s".

Research seminar with Nicolas Arendt.

Lecture by Prof. Tim Strangleman in the series "Confronting Decline: Challenges of Deindustrialisation in Western Societies since the 1970s".

Research seminar with Zoe Konsbruck.

In this SloMemoTalk Stefan Krebs will share his experience of organising the online exhibition Minett Stories, in conversation with Elisabeth Boesen.

The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) has awarded the 2023 Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits to the “Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age”-team for the online exhibition Minett Stories.

Second workshop in the framework of the CONDE research project.

Lecture series.

Auf diesem Forum Z erkunden wir Reparaturpraktiken gestern und heute.

Do you want to hear what scientific data sounds like? Eager to discover the fascinating links between science and music? Then Rockhal on Saturday, December 3rd, is the place to be for the final event of the Esch2022 project “The Sound of Data – Science meets Music”.

Am 17. Oktober 2022 hatte das C²DH alle Interessierten zu einem Forum Z zum Thema Industriekultur in die Mine Cockerill im Ellergronn eingeladen. Der Veranstaltungsort selbst war Programm: die historischen Gebäude, die jetzt die Naturverwaltung beherbergen, waren früher Teil der Grube Katzenberg.

Projection du documentaire sur la sidérurgie et les mines en présence de son réalisateur Emmanuel Graff.

Le patrimoine industriel : local – régional – international

On 9 and 10 June 2022, the C²DH hosted an international conference on the history of industrial regions.