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 […]
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 »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 […]
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Timelines are a popular way to present historical events and periods – and not a recent one. In 1769, the British scholar Joseph Priestley published […]
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The actions against statues of historic figures involved in colonialism and its derivatives highlight the importance of critically confronting our past and rethinking our public […]
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In October, I traveled to Prague for a workshop on the history of science and the Second World War. For the second time during my […]
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My research sometimes leads me onto unexpected paths. My travel to Koblenz counts without doubt among them.
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Historians like to write, and they write a lot. Throughout my studies in history, I was taught how to analyse sources and how to write […]
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