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Associate Professor of Public history at C2DH at University of Luxembourg. International Federation for Public History. Co-production, citizen science. #publichistory #Citizenscience https://www.uni.lu/en/person/NTAwMzk5NTZfX1Rob21hcyBDQVVWSU4=/

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C²DH Scholar at Risk Fellowship 2026 – Dr. Hanan Alawna The C²DH is looking forward to welcoming Dr. Hanan Alawna as Scholar at Risk Fellow in 2026.

Looking forward to welcoming Dr. Hanan Alawna for her project "Digital Resistance: Palestinian Women’s Activism in Online Spaces" as 2026 @c2dh.uni.lu Scholar at Risk Fellow
Dr. Alawna works at the intersection of Memory Studies, Archives, Journalism, and Gender Studies

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16.02.2026 06:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CfP: AI through History, History through AI The Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History hosted by the C²DH in Belval will revolve around Artificial Intelligence in the historical disciplines.

Call for Participation to the conference: AI through History, History through AI

(deadline for application March 1 ; Conference will take place in Luxembourg on June 15, 2026)
@uni.lu @c2dh.uni.lu #AI #Digital #History
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

06.02.2026 05:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Critically Historical 3D History@Play lectiure by Erik Champion entitled "Critically Historical 3D".

New (hybrid) event in the History@Play series led by Sandra Camarda
Erik Champion will explore "how #digital technologies such as #virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, together with semi-serious #games, are transforming cultural #heritage visualization."
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
@c2dh.uni.lu

29.01.2026 06:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scripting Genocide : Book Launch with author Nicholas K. Johnson Launch of the book 'Scripting Genocide' with the author Nicholas K. Johnson.

Book launch (online) Scripting Genocide Wednesday February 11.
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
Plus, the book is in FULL open access through our Book Series "Public History in European Perspectives" with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Details in the link below. #WWII #Genocide #Television #PublicHistory

27.01.2026 05:32 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Best gift ever. Love my colleagues at @c2dh.uni.lu

21.01.2026 08:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New PHACS Collaboration in the United Kingdom: The Pub Museum Pilot The Public History as a New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) project has the pleasure to announce a new collaboration with Charo Havermans, public historian and historic pub tour guide in London, t...

A new Pub museum? Helping Charo Havermans in her quest to make, preserve and share histories of Pubs.

@ncph.bsky.social @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Pub #Beer #London
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

19.01.2026 06:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Community Archiving in Egypt and the Challenge of Getting the “Everyday People” Involved Status check of the partnership between the University of Luxembourg and Shubra's Archive in Cairo.

Community archiving in #Shubra (#Egypt). Everyday people in #PublicHistory

www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/arti...

12.01.2026 06:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scripting Genocide by Nicholas K. Johnson.
First review of the 3rd volume of our collection "Public History in European Perspectives" with @dgb-history.bsky.social

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Reminder that all our books are in full open access. #PublicHistory #Genocide #Media #WWII

07.01.2026 06:33 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Navigating Public History: In Contestation with Japan’s Historical Revisionism In this article, we examine the phenomenon of ‘historical revisionism’ (HR), a movement to construct a ‘bright’ historical narrative of Japan often by denying and minimizing its wrongdoings under Impe...

Beyond ‘Authority’: Collaborative Resistance to Revisionism in Japan. #Japan #PublicHistory @emitozawa.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

06.01.2026 09:33 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Irish as first slaves in America?
Read about the work of a #PublicHistory student from @qubhistory.bsky.social publichistoryonline.org/january-proj...
@ncph.bsky.social @aaslh.org @olwenpurdue.bsky.social #Slavery #Irish

06.01.2026 06:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Open access article on the consequences of rising nationalism on historical narratives and heritage in India. @sharmashalini.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#India #PublicHistory #Memory #Nationalism
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social

05.01.2026 06:46 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
ポスターセッション報告者募集のお知らせ“Cross-Border Dialogues in Digital Humanities × Public History― Doing Digital Public History & Public-Facing Digital Humanities ―” | 国文学研究資料館 国文学研究資料館は、国内各地の日本文学とその関連資料を大規模に集積し、日本文学をはじめとする様々な分野の研究者の利用に供するとともに、それらに基づく先進的な共同研究を推進する日本文学の基盤的な総合研究機関です。

Call for Participation
Cross-Border Dialogues in Digital Humanities × Public History

Symposium in Tokyo on March 2 with keynote from Andreas Fickers. @c2dh.uni.lu
#PublicHistory #DigitalHumanities #Japan
www.nijl.ac.jp/news/9720/?f...

01.12.2025 06:48 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Conservative Public History: Special Section Introduction

Conservative #PublicHistory?
Open access article by Caroline Silveira Bauer, Tunde Decker, Jerome de Groot, and Jimena Perry with examples from North and South America, Europe, Asia...
#Conservatism #FarRight @ncph.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

20.11.2025 06:51 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University

#Job Professorship in #PublicHistory at @au.dk Aarhus University
Deadline for application December 9.
international.au.dk/about/profil...

19.11.2025 05:47 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Open Archives, Accessible Research, and Public History.

November 18, 2025, 13:00 to 17:00 CET
on ZOOM (lu-se.zoom.us/j/64779939772)

#PublicHistory #Archives @c2dh.uni.lu

14.11.2025 06:29 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Public History in Mexico: Memories, Displacements, and Intimacies This collection of chapters explores how history is created, shared, and contested in urban and marginalized spaces by examining memory, displacement, resilience, and community-driven historical inter...

New book on international public history

www.routledge.com/Public-Histo...

13.11.2025 07:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Call for Nomination DELEGATE | PRESIDENT | SECRETARY IFPH Steering Committee The International Federation for Public History (IFPH) invites nominations for three open positions on the Steering Committee of the IFPH,...

Want to join the Steering Committee of the International Federation for Public History? The call is open until November 22.
#PublicHistory

ifph.hypotheses.org/6812

13.11.2025 06:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Playing with Fire: Confronting History's Dark Past Playing with Fire: Confronting History's Dark Past For this year’s participation in Game On, History@Play turns its attention to video games that confront difficult history and heritage.

This week end in #Luxembourg, organised by our colleague

#Game #VideoGame #PublicHistory
@uni.lu @c2dh.uni.lu
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

11.11.2025 06:21 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Interview with Khalid Albaih: Public History and Arts series
Interview with Khalid Albaih: Public History and Arts series YouTube video by University of Luxembourg

Learn about Sudan history through cartoon, arts, and storytelling. An interview of Khalid Albaih by Myriam Dalal and Nada Elshabrawy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDA0...

10.11.2025 10:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI assistants in the archive and the lure of ‘instant history’ AI assistants are increasingly used for navigating and analysing the contents of major archives. Applying Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to existing

Next week (19.11), @finolafinn.bsky.social 's presentation at @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu

#AI #Archive #DigitalHumanities

www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

10.11.2025 06:20 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Our first history festival was a big success. Check the testimonials from film directors, participants, and university colleagues.
What a success for Dora Komnenovic, the main organiser of the event.

www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... @uni.lu

06.11.2025 07:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Applications for our Master in Digital and Public History will open on February 2. Join the @uni.lu for two years and take advantage of the international project opportunities developed at the @c2dh.uni.lu

#PublicHistory #DigitalHistory #Master #Luxembourg
www.uni.lu/fhse-en/stud...

05.11.2025 06:16 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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New public history student project showcase. Joseph Lowen-Grey provided sound and digital tools to enhance public engagement with the historic place

#PublicHistory #heritage #York
publichistoryonline.org/project-show...

04.11.2025 06:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Between Fact and Fiction: Competing Historical Narratives and Social Media Instrumentalization in Contemporary Lebanon This lecture by Charles al Hayek contextualizes seven conflicting perspectives on Lebanese history and examines their instrumentalization through social media platforms

Competing historical narratives on social media, Charles H. al-Hayek will speak (online) about #Lebanon this Thursday at @uni.lu

#PublicHistory #SocialMedia @c2dh.uni.lu @ncph.bsky.social
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

03.11.2025 07:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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CfP: Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past Call for papers for an international conference hosted by the C²DH on 11 and 12 May 2026.

All but "amateurs". Join us in May 2026 for a conference on citizen history and people's commitment to preserve the past.
The call is open until December 20
Collaboration between @c2dh.uni.lu at @uni.lu and @uqam.ca |
#citizenscience #publichistory #preservation #heritage
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

29.10.2025 08:44 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
UN Careers United Nations

Job: Senior Research and Partnership Officer for the United Nations. Based in Luxembourg careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...

28.10.2025 13:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Public History and Participation | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core Public History and Participation - Volume 1

Open access article on making history more participatory through artistic research.
Based on collaboration with Portuguese speaking grand-mothers in #Luxembourg.
#Arts #PublicHistory
Thank you to @uni.lu for making it open access.
@ncph.bsky.social @c2dh.uni.lu
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

27.10.2025 06:40 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, a nice collective enterprise

22.10.2025 06:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Creating a Public History Programme International Guidelines for building sustainable and effective programmes Public History connects academic research with the wider world- from museums and archives to digital storytelling and comm…

How to create a new public history programme in your university?
Interested in developing courses, projects, a pathway, or even a full programme? Check at this step by step process.

publichistoryonline.org/creating-a-p...

#PublicHistory #University

22.10.2025 06:12 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Between Fact and Fiction: Competing Historical Narratives and Social Media Instrumentalization in Contemporary Lebanon This lecture by Charles al Hayek contextualizes seven conflicting perspectives on Lebanese history and examines their instrumentalization through social media platforms

Thursday November 6, Charles H. al-Hayek will talk about #PublicHistory #heritage and social media
Talk is hybrid so you can also attend online

@c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Lebanon
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

20.10.2025 06:54 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1