Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History

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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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.

#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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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.

#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

Were you a listener of Radio #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 ❓
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❗️ Immersive Experience Opening Spring 2026 @ Villa Louvigny @cityluxembourg.bsky.social
@c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu @cnalux.bsky.social @samsafilms.bsky.social

HISTOFEST. History on Full Blast The first history festival in Belval, featuring hands-on activities, project's fair, exhibition, hologram display, film screenings.

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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Félicitations à Alinéor Gandanger, récompensée par une bourse Gerda Henkel, pour ses travaux sur la Grande Guerre.
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#ww1 #GrandeGuerre #storytelling

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.

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...

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

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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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,

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
#uni_lu @c2dh.uni.lu

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...

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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Your contributions will help us better understand the many ways in which The Family of Man has resonated with individuals and communities over time.

Whether you visited the exhibition during its original world tour, encountered it in Clervaux, or feel a personal or cultural connection to its themes, your perspective matters to us.

Share your story about the #FamilyofMan photo exhibition! 📣

#EdwardSteichen #photography @cnalux.bsky.social

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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.

Powered by @researchluxembourg.org

#PublicHistory #SciLux

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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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

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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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.

70 years #FamilyofMan

We have the pleasure of welcoming Prof Shamoon Zamir for a talk about the famous photo exhibition

📅 21 May 🕔 5-6 pm (CET) 📍 C²DH, MSH, Belval

#EdwardSteichen #photography @cnalux.bsky.social
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Faces of the C²DH: Myriam Piguet Postdoctoral researcher Myriam Piguet is interested in how international organisations act as spaces where actors collaborate and interact with each other, and the real impact their decision-making po...

Meet Myriam Piguet, Vice-Head of the Contemporary European history #research group.
How do international organisations act as spaces where actors collaborate and interact with each other? What's the real impact of their decision-making powers?
@uni.lu #facesoftheC2DH
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Talking history on YouTube In his presentation, Robin Maillard will explore some thoughts on popularising history on Youtube, one of the most popular social networks.

How can videos be used to talk about history on the Internet? What are the issues, processes and problems involved? How are these videos received by the public?

Join us 📍 online at 🕚11 am (CET) today for a talk with Robin Maillard

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#PublicHistory #socialmedia

#8May 1945: end of #ww2 for Europe
How did Luxembourgers experience the War period and how did they enter the post-war period?
Our online exhibition ww2.lu sheds light on this chapter of #Luxembourg history
More info: www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

Luxembourg Urban Garden (LUGA) 2025: Embedded in Western European green space heritage On the occasion of LUGA 2025, Luxembourg's first major open-air garden exhibition, Eliane Schmid (doctoral researcher at C²DH, University of Luxembourg) draws parallels between this event and understu...

On the occasion of #LUGA 2025, the first major open-air garden exhibition in #Luxembourg, C²DH doctoral researcher Eliane Schmid draws parallels between this event and understudied Western European greening initiatives dating back to the 1950s 🌷🌼
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Open Day at the Schuman House in Luxembourg

NEW SCHEDULE 🕐 2-5 PM 📅 9 May
🇪🇺 Day at the Schuman House in Clausen
Enjoy an afternoon full of discoveries and encounters in this unique historic place #EuropeDay #Luxembourg #RobertSchuman #EuropeanHistory #opendoors #VilleDeLuxembourg @uni.lu

Talking history on YouTube In his presentation, Robin Maillard will explore some thoughts on popularising history on Youtube, one of the most popular social networks.

History on Youtube. Robin Maillard “Histoire avec une grande Hache” will talk at @uni.lu about why and how to develop historical contents on #Youtube. Tuesday May 13 at 11h, on site or online with @c2dh.uni.lu ,
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@labelherodote.bsky.social #PublicHistory #skystorians

History meets Arts. Compiling the work that Myriam Dalal and I have been doing with artists in the last month at @c2dh.uni.lu at @uni.lu www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/rese... #PublicHistory #Arts

Open Day at the Schuman House in Clausen

Save the date!
🇪🇺 Day at the Schuman House in Clausen
📅 9 May 🕐 1-5 PM
Enjoy an afternoon full of discoveries and encounters in this unique historic place
#EuropeDay #Luxembourg #RobertSchuman #EuropeanHistory #opendoors #VilleDeLuxembourg

Rejoignez-nous le 23 avril pour ce Forum Z dédié aux projets initiés par @uni.lu pour préserver l’héritage de Gilbert Trausch, figure emblématique de l’historiographie luxembourgeoise

Infos: www.uni.lu/c2dh-fr/even...

#ForumZLU #PublicHistory #Luxembourg

Faces of the C²DH: Inna Ganschow Research scientist and migration scholar Inna Ganschow’s publication on forced labourers from the Soviet Union in Luxembourg during World War II was released early this month.

Meet C²DH researcher Inna Ganschow, a storyteller who is raising voices for individuals in overlooked communities
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@uni.lu #Research #facesoftheC2DH

What happens when science goes off the rails, and how do digital games bring this to life?

Arno Görgen explores how systems theory can help us understand the portrayal of “Mad Science” in video games.

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#VideoGames #PublicHistory @pachuki.bsky.social

An Infrastructure for Reparative Democracy: An Agenda for Evidence From Below Talk by Jo Guldi, Full Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory University, Atlanta.

We're looking forward to the talk by Jo Guldi about the role of technology and data in modern governance.
📅 Join us on 25 April at 11 am in #Belval
#DigitalHumanities #AccessToKnowledge #Democracy #history #QuantitativeMethods
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