Le 9 mai, aujourd’hui "Journée de l’Europe", rappelle les débuts de l’Europe communautaire. Lorsque Robert Schuman, à l’époque ministre français des Affaires étrangères, propose le 9 mai 1950 la mise en commun de la production du charbon et de l’acier sous une haute autorité supranational, le projet n’est pas acquis d’office. La genèse de la déclaration Schuman est racontée à travers les hommes de l’entourage de Schuman et de leurs actions. Ce podcast met en lumière les derniers jours, voire les dernières heures avant que Robert Schuman ne s’adresse dans sa fameuse conférence de presse le soir du 9 mai 1950 aux Européens.

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Dans cet épisode, nous avons utilisé, entre autres, les sons suivants :
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- The_Star-Spangled_Banner - Composition : John Stafford Smith Exécution : U.S. Army 1st Armored Division Band, Domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons

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Camilla Portesani – On participatory public history, working with museums, and writing a thesis along the way

In our fourth episode, we are joined by Camilla Portesani, a doctoral candidate working on the PHACS Project (Public History as the new Citizen Science of the Past) since 2021. As part of her PhD, Camilla launched the Participatory Public History Lab, a pilot project developed in collaboration with the House of European History in Brussels. Her work has meant working across departments, institutions, and mindsets, navigating the complex realities of collaborative frameworks in large cultural institutions, all while bringing together a group of students-turned-co-curators.

Tune in as Camilla shares her reflections on the project, what it’s like to collaborate with major institutions, the skills she had to develop along the way, and the juggling act of doing hands-on work while writing a PhD thesis.

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C²PhD - the podcast series that looks at ('sees to') the doctoral researchers among the members of C²DH and explores the stories, ambitions, and ideas that have shaped and continue to shape their thesis journey at C²DH. Through short ten- to fifteen-minute conversations, you get a short glimpse of what doing a PhD at our research centre looks like

In our third episode, we are joined by Zoé Konsbruck, a doctoral candidate working on the history of deindustrialisation in Luxembourg. Having pursued part of her undergrad studies in Luxembourg, she left for Munich, before returning to Luxembourg two years ago. While her research is Luxembourg-focused, as she looks into the impact of the steel crisis in towns throughout southwestern Luxembourg, her project is anything but local. From the onset, she took part in international networks of academics and historians such as the DEPOT and CONDE projects, before deciding to take things a step further and successfully applying for the Europaeum Scholars Programme, a two-year policy and leadership training course. Tune in as Zoé shares her insights on diversifying and shaping the PhD journey into your own, acquiring new skills and experiences, and what ice cream has to do with all of this.

Host Joé Voncken, historian and himself a doctoral researcher at the centre currently in the fourth year of his thesis project, initially came up this podcast project as part of a DESCOM internship in Science Communication which took place over the course of summer and autumn of '24. Since then, the project has developed a life of its own, with a total of four episodes to come out on a monthly basis between December '24 and March '25, and more in the works.

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