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Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
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As an interdisciplinary research centre of the University of Luxembourg, the C²DH is committed to high-quality research and public dissemination in the field of contemporary history with a particular focus on digital methods and tools. @uni.lu #c2dh
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Our virtual exhibition about GILBERT TRAUSCH won the Jury Prize Digital Design at the Luxembourg Design Awards 2025 😀🏆
Congratulations to the designers from Bunker Palace and our researchers 👏
Visit the exhibition: trausch.uni.lu
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Ne manquez pas la conférence de Denis Scuto ce soir sur le club de foot Jeunesse Esch pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale ⚽
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Une tournée tragique de la Jeunesse en Europe de l’Est
Conférence dans le cadre du projet "Jeunesse Esch Musée.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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We’re thrilled to announce that our work has been honoured with the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award at the 2025 FNR Awards! 🎉🏆😀
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Winners of the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award Winners of the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award
We’re thrilled to announce that: our work has been honoured at the 2025 FNR Awards! Prof. Andreas Fickers (C²DH), together with Prof. Sonja Kmec (FHSE) and Prof. Dietmar Hüser (Saarbrücken University)...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Doctoral candidate Emilia Sánchez González reflects on the challenges of collecting personal memories of visiting the photography exhibition “The Family of Man” when it toured the world 70 years ago
@cnalux.bsky.social #EdwardSteichen#OralHistory #TheFamilyofMan
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Memory Quest: Reflections on crowdsourcing international testimonies
Collecting memories of visiting the photography exhibition “The Family of Man”  when it toured the world seventy years ago.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Happening TODAY: the first HISTORY FESTIVAL in #Belval!
Games, activities, projects fairs and film screenings on the programme 📜🎞️
Whether you're a history nerd or just curious, we'd love to see you here 🤝
More info: www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Join us today at 11.30 am on-site or online for a History@Play lecture with Marc Bonner, University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern
Link and info: www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
#storytelling #publichistory
October 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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The Scientific Unit of the Chamber of Deputies released a study exploring #Luxembourg ’s tax competitiveness. The report’s 4th chapter offers a critical history of the Grand Duchy’s financial centre and was co- written by Benoît Majerus
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Study exploring Luxembourg’s tax competitiveness co-written by Benoît Majerus
The Scientific Unit of the Chamber of Deputies released a study exploring Luxembourg’s tax competitiveness. The historical chapter was co-written by Benoît Majerus.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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We are preparing to bring history to life with HISTOFEST, the first history festival in #Belval! A vibrant mix of activities, stories, and surprises is waiting for you on 15 October.
Full programme 👉 www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
#publichistory #histofest #historyfestival #Esch
September 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Rejoignez-nous le 1er octobre pour un Forum Z consacré à la médiatisation des inégalités sociales et économique au #Luxembourg.
Organisé en partenariat avec @csllux.bsky.social
Plus d'infos: www.uni.lu/c2dh-fr/even...
#ForumZLU #PublicHistory
September 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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🎡 The Schueberfouer is back! Beyond rides & lights, one sound stood out in the 1960s: the voices of the Recommandeurs (barkers).

Research by our own Véronique Faber (@c2dh.uni.lu) + Dr. Vanessa Toulmin from @sheffielduni.bsky.social dives into this art of showmanship.

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Echoes of the Schueberfouer: Voices from the Fairground
Exploring the theatrical and multilingual art of fairground “Recommandeurs” in the sensory chaos of the Schueberfouer during the 1960s.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Open call for PhD candidates, Post-Docs and Senior Researchers
We offer 3 fellowships for visiting researchers in 2026
Seize the opportunity and apply before 15.10.2025
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July 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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#IndustrialHistory in Action!
We followed the traces of Belval Blast Furnace C to China
Both countries deal with similar challenges when it comes to reusing old industrial sites. What should be preserved? How can these places be made meaningful again?
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Industrial History in Action
Report of a research trip to China to follow the traces of Blast Furnace C, originally part of Luxembourg’s steel industry in Belval.
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July 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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#CfP Conference in Northern Luxembourg on 26-27 February 2026 on the topic of national-socialist internment sites in Western Europe
Deadline for submission: 15 September
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#Holocaust #WW2 #HistoricalSites
CfP: Transit zones: Western European internment sites in the interspaces of Nazi persecution
International conference organised by the C²DH / University of Luxembourg and the Centre Cinqfontaines / Zentrum fir politesch Bildung (ZPB) on 26.-27. February 2026.
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July 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Were you a listener of Radio #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 ❓
⏩️ Send your short voice message to info@radio.lu
❗️ Immersive Experience Opening Spring 2026 @ Villa Louvigny @cityluxembourg.bsky.social
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July 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR FIRST HISTORY FESTIVAL
📅 15 October 📍 Belval
We’re bringing history to life with a vibrant mix of activities,
films and surprises. Whether you're a history buff, a curious local, or just looking for something fun to do—HISTOFEST is for YOU!
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HISTOFEST. History on Full Blast
The first history festival in Belval, featuring hands-on activities, project's fair, exhibition, hologram display, film screenings.
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July 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Félicitations à Alinéor Gandanger, récompensée par une bourse Gerda Henkel, pour ses travaux sur la Grande Guerre.
Lire la suite: www.uni.lu/c2dh-fr/news...
#ww1 #GrandeGuerre #storytelling
July 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Einführung zu Tag 1 der gemeinsam mit @c2dh.uni.lu organisierten Tagung „Challenges of Deindustrialization in European Societies since the 1970s“ mit Martina Steber, Stefan Krebs & Christian Marx. Die ersten Panels beleuchten die Folgen der Deindustralisierung für Industrieproduktion und Umwelt.
June 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Opening of the 'Confronting Decline (CONDE) – Challenges of #Deindustrialization in European Societies since the 1970s' conference in Luxembourg
Welcome address by Andreas Fickers (C²DH) and Andreas Wirsching @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
Programme: www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
June 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Les sacrifiés de l' #IA: prisonnières en Finlande, réfugiés ukrainiens, travailleurs en lutte au Kenya, exploitation du lithium en Amérique du Sud
🎬Projection du film, suivie d'une discussion avec son co-auteur Antonio A. Casilli
📅2.7. 📍 Rotondes
#IntelligenceArtificielle
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Dans les coulisses de l'intelligence artificielle
Projection du documentaire « Les sacrifiés de l’iA » (2025) | Présentation et discussion avec Antonio A. CASILLI, Professeur, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, et co-auteur du film
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May 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The #DIGISHELL project starts in 2026 and will use digital tools to study millions of pages of multilingual, unstructured data.

More about the story and what’s next 👇

#AI #ERC #DigitalHistory #Luxembourg #Research
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How researchers use AI to reconstruct history of offshore shell companies
Benoît Majerus, a history professor at the University of Luxembourg, will soon be launching a groundbreaking research project on global tax networks,
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June 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Workshop History of Digital History between East and West (5-6 February 2026)
📣❗ Extended deadline for abstracts: 27 June
#digitalhistory #dhist #digitalhumanities
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Call for Papers: Workshop History of Digital History between East and West
This workshop will address these blind spots by focusing attention on the question of how the local and the transnational intersected in the technology-inflected reshaping of historical research pract...
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June 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Share your story about the #FamilyofMan photo exhibition! 📣

#EdwardSteichen #photography @cnalux.bsky.social

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May 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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🎧 New SciLux: History isn't just what happened – it's who gets to tell the story.

Dr. Joëlla van Donkersgoed (@c2dh.uni.lu) shows how communities from Luxembourg to Indonesia are reclaiming their narratives & reshaping historical research.

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#PublicHistory #SciLux
May 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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C²PhD PODCAST 🎙️
Camilla Portesani launched the Participatory #PublicHistory Lab at the House of #EuropeanHistory. She shares her reflections on the project, the skills she had to developed, and the juggling act of doing hands-on work while writing a #PhD #thesis
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May 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Les sacrifiés de l' #IA: prisonnières en Finlande, réfugiés ukrainiens, travailleurs en lutte au Kenya, exploitation du lithium en Amérique du Sud
🎬Projection du film, suivie d'une discussion avec son co-auteur Antonio A. Casilli
📅2.7. 📍 Rotondes
#IntelligenceArtificielle
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Dans les coulisses de l'intelligence artificielle
Projection du documentaire « Les sacrifiés de l’iA » (2025) | Présentation et discussion avec Antonio A. CASILLI, Professeur, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, et co-auteur du film
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May 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM