Doctoral Training Unit “Digital History & Hermeneutics”

Digital hermeneutics and the European Historic Towns Atlas project: The digital and interactive historical town atlas of Luxembourg City as a “trading zone”

“Digital cartography & mapping technologies” is one of the thematic areas of the DTU. In the DTU’s proposal to the…

Training the trainer: being a PhD supervisor of a digital historian in the making – A short opinion paper

The launch of the Doctoral Training Unit in Digital History and Hermeneutics (DTU-DHH) coincided with my joining a new research…

Experimental Media Ethnography

Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers (University of Luxembourg), Prof. Dr. Kristen Haring (Standford University), Dr. Jessica Mesman (Maastricht University) and Dr. Stefan Krebs (University of Luxembourg) This…

Digitising the analogue

Some time ago it suddenly hit us that it has been a while since we read an academic book or article in a physical format.…

The Historical Art of Projection

In the Hands-On History seminar on the 24th of May by Dr. Ludwig M. Vogl-Bienek and Karin Bienek from the University of Trier we were…

GIS-Analysis, Mapping & Cartography

Dr. Catherine Jones, Kerry Schiel and Kaarel Sikk (University of Luxembourg) Nowadays historians, geographers and social scientists have a myriad of digital resources (digital borne…

Automata and other interlocutors

The notion of the automaton extends at least as far back as antiquity, but successful implementation of simulated intelligence, and even life itself, continues to…

Algorithmic Critique

Prof. Dr. Pascal Bouvry, Prof. Dr. Frank Hofmann, Dr. Martin Rosalie (University of Luxembourg) The objective of this skills trainings was to make students familiar…