Housing issues everywhere: Impressions from the ISHF 2023
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 […]
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EU Cultural Policy: A Historical Overview
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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On the political uses of the past in Luxembourg
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 »On the International Public History Conference in Berlin in August 2022
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 »Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Cultural Policy History
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 »On nation branding in Luxembourg
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 au Luxembourg des années 1920
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 »The Player as an Explorer: An Archaeology of Imagined Worlds
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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Reflections on a Global History of Medicine
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 […]
Weiterlesen »Luxembourg as a nationalised intermediate space: A short postscript to my doctoral thesis
In a recent episode of the series on contemporary history aired on the Luxembourgian public radio 100komma7, the historian Denis Scuto discussed the idea of […]
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