A Blog about History, Culture and Society
Last year, I published a journal article on school dismissals of young people at secondary schools during the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg, including both a […]
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The lack of affordable and adequate housing is one of the biggest challenges many countries, regions, and cities face. In Luxembourg, it has become one […]
Weiterlesen »Some weeks ago, I had the pleasure to give a guest lecture to students in a class organized by my colleague Dr Joëlla van Donkersgoed. […]
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In August 2022, I had the pleasure to participate in the conference of the International Federation for Public History at the Freie Universität in Berlin. […]
Weiterlesen »Initially planned to be held in Berlin in 2020, the conference of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) could only be organised in 2022. […]
Weiterlesen »Since 2018, I have given lectures on the history of cultural policy in Luxembourg on some occasions, as part of undergraduate or graduate courses, and […]
Weiterlesen »Over the past years, I have argued that Luxembourg’s cultural policy has transitioned from nation-building in the 19th and 20th centuries to nation branding in […]
Weiterlesen »La crise du logement est sans doute un sujet d’actualité au Luxembourg (et dans de nombreux autres pays). Une telle crise, pourtant, touchait le Grand-Duché […]
Weiterlesen »Over the past year, I played two video games that were developed twenty years apart and might not bear many similitudes in gameplay elements and […]
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The current pandemic and the global efforts to understand the disease and to develop a cure made me think back to an assignment I wrote […]
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