C²DH Innovating & Sharing History

In fifth episode of the podcast Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds – A Radio Luxembourg Story , Friso & Marie, students from the Master in Digital and Public History of the University of Luxembourg,  explore the lesser known history of Radio Luxembourg during times of conflict, how the station was controlled and used for propaganda and information. Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds – A Radio Luxe...

In the episode "Jingle sells", Elvira & Snejana, students from the Master in Digital and Public History of the University of Luxembourg, delve into how the station shaped musical tastes and how its iconic ads had a lasting impact on listeners. Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds – A Radio Luxembourg Story is a student podcast series developed in connection with the Master in Digital and...

In this episode of the podcast Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds – A Radio Luxembourg Story , Caroline & Zhuojia, students from the Master in Digital and Public History, explore the people who made up Radio Luxembourg’s audience and what kept them tuning in. Find out more about the station’s winning formula and how it managed to keep so close to its audience over the decades. Selling Happiness,...

Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds – A Radio Luxembourg Story is a student podcast series developed in connection with the Master in Digital and Public History programme at the University of Luxembourg. It explores the power of radio, DJ culture, seductive advertising, global audiences, and the thin line between information and propaganda.  In this episode, hosted by Nouha & Monyck, they tell th...

DJ Culture Hosted by: Magnus & Nicole In this episode, we zoom in on the voices behind your parents’ or your grandparents’ teenage rebellion: the DJs of Radio Luxembourg. Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds – A Radio Luxembourg Story is a student podcast series developed in connection with the Master in Digital and Public History programme at the University of Luxembourg. It explores the power of...

In this fifteen-minute conversation, host Véronique Faber speaks with Dr. Vanessa Toulmin, Professor at the University of Sheffield and founder of the National Fairground and Circus Archive, to explore the tradition of “barking” or “telling the tale” at the fairground. Coming from a show people family herself, Dr. Toulmin shares both historical insights and personal memories of this vocal performa...

Le 9 mai, aujourd’hui "Journée de l’Europe", rappelle les débuts de l’Europe communautaire. Lorsque Robert Schuman, à l’époque ministre français des Affaires étrangères, propose le 9 mai 1950 la mise en commun de la production du charbon et de l’acier sous une haute autorité supranational, le projet n’est pas acquis d’office. La genèse de la déclaration Schuman est racontée à travers les...

Camilla Portesani – On participatory public history, working with museums, and writing a thesis along the way In our fourth episode, we are joined by Camilla Portesani , a doctoral candidate working on the PHACS Project (Public History as the new Citizen Science of the Past) since 2021. As part of her PhD, Camilla launched the Participatory Public History Lab , a pilot project developed in collabo...

C ² PhD -  the podcast series that looks at ('sees to') the doctoral researchers among the members of C²DH and explores the stories, ambitions, and ideas that have shaped and continue to shape their thesis journey at C²DH. Through short ten- to fifteen-minute conversations, you get a short glimpse of what doing a PhD at our research centre looks like In our third episode, we are joined b...

C ² PhD -  the podcast series that looks at ('sees to') the doctoral researchers among the members of C²DH and explores the stories, ambitions, and ideas that have shaped and continue to shape their thesis journey at C²DH. Through short ten- to fifteen-minute conversations, you get a short glimpse of what doing a PhD at our research centre looks like. In our second episode, we are joined...

C ² PhD -  the podcast series that looks at ('sees to') the doctoral researchers among the members of C²DH and explores the stories, ambitions, and ideas that have shaped and continue to shape their thesis journey at C²DH. Through short ten- to fifteen-minute conversations, you get a short glimpse of what doing a PhD at our research centre looks like. For this very first episode, public...

Since the 1970s, deindustrialisation has fundamentally changed Western societies. Interestingly, Luxembourg has confronted the decline of its steel industry in a particular way. The CONDE project seeks to explore deindustrialisation in a systematic historical perspective and place it in wider political, economic, social and cultural contexts. The project is led by the Leibniz Institute for Contemp...

Since March 2020, the Warlux project at C²DH has been delving into the experiences and narratives of Luxembourg's 'forced recruits' and their families during the Second World War. The aim is to break with the traditional historiography surrounding the 'forced recruits' and to critically examine established narratives within the country's overarching historical discour...

The Minett Stories virtual exhibition explores the history and identity of the Minett, the industrial region in southern Luxembourg , in 21 stories. For a century (approx. 1870-1970) the Minett was shaped by iron ore mining and the iron and steel industry. Rapid economic and population growth, urbanisation and labour migration had a major impact on the history of the region, which has also been sh...

For the C²DH, 2022 was a particularly fruitful and intense year for our ongoing research on Web archives: two year-long projects came to an end, one in partnership with the DataLab of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, entitled Buzz-F, and another with the Canadian Archives Unleashed team, AWAC2, which looked at Web archives related to the COVID-19 crisis. In autumn 2022, the final conference o...

In all humanities disciplines, scholars find themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing availability of digital resources, new technologies to interrogate and analyse them, and the question of how to engage with these developments. The field of Jewish studies is no exception. The C²DH aims to use the potential of digital technology to foster research in Jewish studies. Various projects have...

One hundred years ago, the Luxembourg-based steel giant ARBED – today ArcelorMittal – inaugurated its Brazilian subsidiary in the State of Minas Gerais. Hundreds of Luxembourgish migrants settled in João Monlevade to work at the plant, bringing their social and cultural mores with them. An innovative transmedia documentary traces the history of the city and its inhabitants as well as the links for...

History shapes towns and cities and the people who live in them. Esch-sur-Alzette has an extremely rich, sometimes forgotten history, one that is reflected in its buildings and heritage and above all in the lived experiences of its residents. Thomas Cauvin, head of the “Public History and Outreach” research area, and Joëlla van Donkersgoed, a post-doctoral researcher at the C²DH, spoke to Hanna Si...

The DEMA (“Doing Experimental Media Archaeology”) project studies the potential of hands-on experimentation as a means of better understanding and experiencing the materiality and use practices of old media technologies. Musician Aleksander Kolkowski, media historian Tim van der Heijden and C²DH Director Andreas Fickers spoke to Hanna Siemaszko, the producer of the SciLux podcast on science in Lux...