Twitter, l’événement du temps présent et l’historien-moissonneur. Une étude de cas du référendum grec de 2015

International audienceCette communication aborde la question plus large du rapport des historiens avec les sources nativement numériques du Web 2.0, en particulier celles issues de la plateforme du réseau social Twitter, à travers une étude de cas qui porte sur le référendum grec de 2015 et s'appuie sur une problématique autour du concept épistémologique de l'événement historique. La présentation insiste davantage sur cette problématique et décrit une partie des premiers résultats de l'analyse (concernant les hashtags collectés), dont l'ensemble (y compris l'analyse de réseaux et l'analyse textuelle) est actuellement en cours et sera intégré dans la version écrite de ce travail

Three Challenges in Developing Open Multilingual DH Educational Resources The Case of The Programming Historian

International audienceWhat are the necessary conditions for developing multilingual open DH educational resources? Drawing on the English, Spanish and French-speaking editions of The Programming Historian, the aim of this lightning talk is to discuss three challenges encountered while implementing linguistic and cultural inclusivity and access.The first challenge concerns the internationalization of the Editorial Board and our lessons. In 2016, a Spanish-language team was recruited in order to translate tutorials under the title The Programming Historian en español. In 2018, the Board recruited a French-language sub-team and in April 2019 it launched The Programming Historian en français. The Board also published a set of “Guidelines for writing for a global audience”: authors are encouraged to write tutorials that are as much accessible as possible, having in mind cultural differences. The second challenge is the translation process. The act of translating requires extensive teamwork and coordination across our editorial team. Our translations are adapted to the target audience and they usually contain new instructions that cover the necessary steps to process texts and data in Spanish or French. In addition, these new full-language initiatives have challenged our infrastructure as an Open Access scholarly publication. As we are committed to publishing openly reviewed tutorials to a high standard, there is an extensive set of technical, editorial and administrative processes and policies in place.The third challenge is the production of original lessons in Spanish and French. After translating more than 40 tutorials from English to Spanish, in April 2019, The Programming Historian en español has just released its first two original tutorials in Spanish. The design of a strategy to promote lessons that address research questions relevant for the Hispanic and Francophone communities seems a priority in the near future. Lessons that use alternative methods could contribute to increase the diversity of DH, especially if translated into English

Greece during the early Cold War: The view from the Western Archives: Documents

International audienceGreece‘s relation with the West during the Cold War era has constantly attracted theattention of Greek and international scholarship. In this relationship, continuities andbreaks become evident. The postwar era was marked by the continuation of theagonizing Greek effort to integrate in the West. Thus, there was an effort to bringrelations with the major Western European states (Britain, France, West Germany,Italy) back to a kind of normalcy. This, as could be expected, was a particularlydemanding endeavour, especially regarding the former Axis powers, against whichGreece had fought during the Second World War. The Cold War provided a contextor a medium which facilitated the rebuilding of bilateral contacts. There also were breaks, or at least novelties, pointing to the ascent of a newera of international relations. The US-Greek special relationship, forged during thedifficult years of the Greek civil war but also burdened by the memories of USpenetration in Greek policy-making in 1947-52, was a salient novel element. Greece‘sparticipation in NATO was an unprecedented event:this was the first time that thecountry allied formally with the major powers of the West. Last but not least,Athens‘s ambition to participate in supranational European integration resulted in the1961 Association Agreement with the European Economic Community, and openednew roads for Greece‘s internal development and international relations. This volume presents archival material from the West German, French, Italian,British and US national archives, as well as from the NATO Archives, addressingimportant aspects of this historical phenomenon. This multi-archival research wasundertaken by a large number of scholars, in the context of the Thalis project onGreece and the Cold War, coordinated by the University of Macedonia: KonstantinaE. Botsiou, Dionysios Chourchoulis, Christos Christidis, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou,Vaios Kalogrias, Periklis-Stelios Karavis, Manolis Koumas, Sofia Papastamkou, andIoannis Sakkas. All researchers also suggested documents for possible publication,thus creating a large pool of archival material. The editors then made the finalselection and prepared this volume.This volume cannot, of course, tell the whole story of Greece‘s relationshipwith the West in the postwar era. It aims to highlight important landmarks orperspectives, as seen by the other Western capitals. It is hoped, however, that it willcontribute to a widening of the debate on one of the most important aspects ofcontemporary Greek history

Report on C²DH Activities in Support of the Ukrainian Research Community

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th 2022 has triggered a worldwide wave of support and expressions of solidarity, also among C²DH staff. This report gives an overview of their past activities together with a preliminary review and recommendations for the year 2023. This does not cover private support activities undertaken by C²DH members. This report consists of three parts: First, a brief summary of the response of Luxembourgish research institutions, published already in June 2022. Second, a chronology of activities by C²DH staff since March 2022. Third, an overview of past and planned activities by C²DH. These activities we group in a) Collaboration and Training in support of Ukrainian researchers and b) Documentation and Preservation with a focus on cultural heritage and future research activities. At the time of writing, most do not expect the war to end any time soon. This makes it necessary to revisit past support activities regarding their success and effectiveness, to adjust measures according to the changed situation and to identify new opportunities for support also in light of their impact on the centre and its ongoing activities in research and teaching. Overall, the centre will continue and expand its support activities in light of the orientation towards the development of the future Ukrainian research landscape

Greece between Europe and the Mediterranean, 1981-1986: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Greek-Libyan Relations as Case Studies

International audienceThis article examines aspects of the foreign policy of Greece’s socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou regarding the Mediterranean from 1981 to 1986. The Mediterranean was one of the three circles of Papandreou's “multidimensional” approach in foreign policy, a conceptualized one that encompassed Greece's Arab policy, mainly from a third road point of view. Two case studies are considered, the Greek-Palestinian and the Greek-Libyan connections, principally from a European perspective. Opting for a global rather than a bilateral perspective allows to fully appreciate the evolution of Greek foreign attitudes at the time mainly from the perspective of their Europeanisation

French-Egyptian Relations Before the Suez Crisis (1954-1956)

International audienceIn 1954, Pierre Mendès France, head of the French government, sought to redefine France's policy in the Middle East in order to reinforce the country's international position. Israel, Syria and Egypt were thought to be the key countries. France and Egypt already held close economic and cultural ties but their opposition to the Baghdad Pact (Middle East Treaty Organization, later Central Treaty Organization), founded in 1955 by Turkey, Iraq, United Kingdom, Iran and Pakistan, gave common ground for further rapproachment and even development of military relations. However, what determined the French-Egyptian relations in the short term was the escalation of the Algerian war of independence. Indeed, Egypt's relations with the Algerian nationalists and the sharp divisions that arose within the French government over the question of whether to preserve military relations with Egypt and Israel at once, in combination with total disagreement between diplomats and the French defence establishment over general foreign policy goals, eventually undermined the French-Egyptian relations. By the time Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Company in the summer 1956, relations between France and Egypt had already collapsed after the Guy Mollet government silenced its opposition to the Baghdad Pact for the sake of French-British relations and intensified military relations with Israel through the secret Vermars agreement

Ranke.2 - Source Criticism in the Digital Age. Scholar-led Publishing of Multilingual Educational Resources for Historians

peer reviewedPresentation of Ranke.2, a project of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), OPERAS 2024 Conference, Zadar, Croati

La France et la Méditerranée : ambition de puissance, perceptions, interactions

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