Current research
Research of the CEGES/SOMA
The research conducted at the CEGES/SOMA is twofold: on the one hand there is the research carried out by the permanent researchers and on the other the research projects which are limited in time and are funded with exterior resources, for the most part by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (see Scientific team). These research activities and projects are in the field of 20th century history and principally concern the two world wars.
Current research projects are:
- Justice and Society: The Socio-political History of Justice Administration in Belgium (1795-2005)
- Women in the Colonies. Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1885-1962
- War at the museum. To commemorate and exhibit the Second World War in Belgium, 1970-2010
- Children 'of the Wehrmacht' in Belgium
- The Children of Save. "Stolen or Saved ?"
- North Limburg and the Second World War
- European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)
- The murder of Julien Lahaut
- Transitional Justice
Project enquiry on oral history in BelgiumFollowing the study day Oral History in Belgium on 18 November 2011, the CEGES/SOMA is currently distributing an enquiry. If you were/are involved in a project on oral history, you can fill out this document (click here). The purpose is to obtain an overview of new Belgian projects on oral history between 2004 and 2012. Read more... |
Second Year of EHRI
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EHRI Fellowships in Holocaust Studies 2012
The EHRI fellowships are intended to support and stimulate Holocaust research by facilitating international access to high-level 'infrastructures of Holocaust research', i.e. key archives and collections related to the Holocaust. Read more... |
Transitional Justice after war and dictatorship (1945-2000)The Ceges/Soma and the Department of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will cooperate in an ambitious international project: Transitional Justice after war and dictatorship. Learning from European experiences (1945-2000). Together with the renowned sociologist Luc Huyse, who initiated the project, the Ceges/Soma provides the logistical and scholarly coordination. In 2012, a European workshop (January) and an international symposium (May) will be organised of which the proceedings will be collected in a final report.Read more... |
The Ceges/Soma has started scientific research on the murder of Julien LahautOn 16 May, the Ceges/Soma has started research on the circumstances of the murder of Julien Lahaut. The Centre had already been assigned this task by the Senate in December 2008, but the freezing of federal finances delayed the start of the inquiry. Read more... |
War in the museum. The commemoration and exhibition of the Second World War in Belgium, 1970-2010.This research project seeks to trace the way in which the Second World War, from 1970 until today, has been commemorated and exhibited in the public space in Belgium. It is a continuation of the project 'Collaboration and Resistance: mirror images or manipulated memories?' which in the past two years has been carried out in cooperation with Evert Peeters and has focused on (sub)national 'lieux de mémoire' between 1945 and 1970. In this new project, this subject will be studied in even more detail by concentrating on the last decades of the 20th century. Read more... |
The Ceges-Soma participates in the heritage project ‘North Limburg and the Second World War’Central in the heritage project 'North Limburg and the Second World War' are the wartime experiences of the population of Limburg. The focus is on the manner in which rural, relatively closed communities were confronted with a foreign presence as a result of the war, and how this was and is remembered. Read more... |
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)The first European historical project on the access to the judeocide archives On 16 November 2010, the European project 'European Holocaust Research Infrastructure' will be launched. Seventeen research centres from Europe and Israel joined forces to develop a European database of the archive collections on the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War. Making these sources available online is an important step towards the maximum open access of these data. |
About a year ago, on 16 November 2010, EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) was launched in Brussels. The project is financed by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. Led by NIOD in Amsterdam, 20 archives, museums, research centres and remembrance institutes from 13 countries will work together intensively for 4 years. CEGES-SOMA is the Belgian partner in EHRI. 
EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) invites applications for its fellowship programme for 2012.
