Programme : University of Luxembourg, Bachelor en Cultures Européennes , Histoire Coordinator: Jakub Bronec Developed by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, the IWalk is an interactive educational program that connects concrete physical locations with memories of historical events that took place at those locations. It is currently concentrating on … Continued
The aim of this blogpost is to review data analysis software. None of the qualitative software (nVivo, Atlas.ti, Maxqda, dedoose.) actually “analyse” the data for you in the way that quantitative software does. They are more applicable in systematically organising, coding, annotating, visualising, etc. rather than data analysis. In essence, the analysis is still the … Continued
Digital Hermeneutics at DH Benelux 2019 DTU-DHH offered three contributions at last week’s Digital Humanities Benelux conference in Liège (11-13 September), setting out to discuss interpretations of oral history video testimonies, digital humanities curricula, and overcoming OCR problems in distant reading techniques. On the first day, doctoral researcher Jakub Bronec conducted the workshop “Making sense … Continued
Jewish identity and cultural heritage observed from two different academic perspectives As if doing a PhD at one university was not hard enough, I opted for a cotutelle agreement between the University of Luxembourg and Charles University in Prague for my PhD project on Cultural and Educational activities of the Jewish minority in Czechoslovakia and … Continued
On May 28, the kick-off lecture of our new DTU Lecture Series “Digital History and Hermeneutics” was given by Jakub Mlynář of the Malach Center for Visual History in the Luxembourg Centre of Contemporary and Digital History. He spoke about the Sociological Aspects of Oral History in the Digital Age. The entire session was … Continued
On May 18, I took part in a very interesting workshop held by Jakub Mlynar from the Malach Centre for Visual History at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague. This association provides local access to the extensive digital archives of the USC Shoah Foundation – the Institute for Visual … Continued
Speaker: Jakub Mlynář, Malach Center for Visual History, Charles University 28 May 2019⎹ 10.00⎹ C²DH Lounge, MSH 4th floor Oral history can be defined as collecting the “memories and personal commentaries of historical significance through recorded interviews” (Ritchie 2015: 1). It is a sufficiently theorized and interdisciplinary field. Throughout its history … Continued
DTU PhD researcher Jakub Bronec recently published the article entitled “Jewish scouting during and after World War II in Czechoslovakia and France”. The article appeared in the volume Marginalia Historica: časopis pro dějiny vzdělanosti a kultury, which was published at Charles University, Prague, appearing in issue 3, vol. 2 (2018). Abstract “Jewish scouting is a phenomenon that has … Continued
My colleague Anastasia Badder and I participated in a conference dedicated to addressing urban Jewish heritage and the multi-layered issues inherent in urban Jewish heritage projects. The contributions to the conference ranged from tourism and sustainability to conservation and representation. The aim of the event was to bring together academics, policy makers, community leaders, and … Continued
The aim of the conference was generate and trace the “Provenance of Knowledge” as a core element in documentation. Provenance and Knowledge set a goal to verify the origins of the information and knowledge about an object which correlates to an idea in order to reconstruct the whole chain of creation, use, interpretation and dissemination … Continued