A trip to Luxembourg: SHOT'25 and C2DH visit

Just a short update to say that earlier this month, I visited Luxembourg to attend the 2025 annual conference of the Society for History of Technology (SHOT), which was held at the University of Luxembourg in Belval.

I was grateful to present work alongside colleagues old and new in the panel, entitled ‘The analog in migration: when the world embraced “Multimedia”’.

I followed up the conference presentation with a visit to the CD-Hist project at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), graciously hosted by Prof Valerie Schaefer, Dr Fred Pailler, and Dr Alina Volynskaya. The first day was spent comparing notes on our shared interest area - CDs - and meeting other researchers at C2DH.

The morning of the second day, I gave a short workshop to C2DH researchers on using open source tools to enable the use of AI methods on digital collections of scanned printed documents. The workshop materials can be found online on GitHub.