Interview with Andreas Fickers (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)

Abstract

Andreas Fickers is Professor for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg and the Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), 3rd interdisciplinary center at the University of Luxembourg and head of its Digital History Lab. He's also prinicipal investigator of several projects such as Popkult60 (Populärkultur transnational - Europa in den langen 1960er Jahren) or LuxTime (Luxembourg Time Machine). Prof. Fickers focused on the hermeneutical foundations of Media and Television Studies, in publications such as Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events, before shifting his main interest to Digital History and Digital Humanities. Currently, he is the editor of the Journal of Digital History and co-editor of the book series Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Keywords

• Digital Humanities
• Digital Hermeneutics
• Digital History
• Multilingualism