Events

Expo NAR – CNT - De sociale partners tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Les partenaires sociaux pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale - © FPS Employment

Exhibition

An exhibition on social partners during the war years

An exhibition on social partners during the war years opened on Wednesday, 4 February 2026 in the entrance hall of the Federal Public Service Employment, Labour, and Social Dialogue (FOD WASO/SPF Emploi). The exhibition is an...Read more

Conference

Breendonk. Een nieuwe geschiedenis.

Lecture and discussion in Dutch featuring guest speaker Dimitri Roden A conversation with Nico Wouters

Breendonk: What do we really know about this iconic site in Belgian history?

On 5 November,...Read more

Study day

Young Historians' Day – 27 November 2026

On Friday, November 27, 2026, CegeSoma/State Archives will honor a new generation of talented historians at its annual symposium dedicated to them. About twenty recent graduates from various universities across the country...Read more

Conference

Cinema in Occupied Belgium: Film, Audience, Propaganda, and Entertainment in World War II

Lecture and discussion in Dutch featuring guest speaker Roel Vande Winkel An interview conducted by Hans Vandevoorde

On Wednesday, December 9, CegeSoma and the Friends of CegeSoma (non-profit organization) are pleased...Read more

27 Oct 2026 Unique live recording of the podcast series *Weeral WO2?!* with Tom Simoens

22 Oct 2026 Debate: Simon Gronowski and Nico Wouters Discuss the 20th Convoy

09 Oct 2026 Baudouin, un roi face aux crises de son temps

22 Oct 2025 New critical Approaches on Communists and Communism in Belgium.

22 Oct 2025 Workshop report: New Critical Perspectives on Communists and Communism in Belgium.

26 Sep 2025 to 28 Jun 2026 Belgian Railways under Occupation: between Collaboration and Resistance

23 Sep 2025 Exhibition - Belgian Railways under Occupation: between Collaboration and Resistance

19 Sep 2025 The Korean War and Belgium

19 Sep 2025 Workshop Report: “The Korean War and Belgium”

17 May 2025 80 jaar na de Tweede Wereldoorlog: welk verleden voor de toekomst?

11 Feb 2025 Snitching, Denunciation, Collaboration: How and Why Citizens Choose to Support Dictators

11 Dec 2024 War after war: The Belgian occupation of the left bank of the Rhine (1918-1930).

18 Sep 2024 to 20 Sep 2024 Changing Perspectives on Resistance during the Second World War

11 Sep 2024 to 13 Sep 2024 Pathways to Empire? Belgian Global Expansion 1830 - 1930

30 Aug 2024 September 1944: Belgium is liberated. What next ?

17 Apr 2024 A social history of the Resistance in small Belgian communes

29 Mar 2024 Senate colloquium on Belgian Railways and deportations in WWII

15 Mar 2024 Archival Research into the Economic Aspects of the Cold War

13 Dec 2023 Hoeders van de Staat. Burgemeesters in bezet en bevrijd België en Noord-Frankrijk (1914-1921). (Guardians of the State. Mayors in occupied and liberated Belgium and northern France (1914-1921)).

22 Nov 2023 Ordinary anti-Semitism. Investigating police practices in Cureghem.

01 Nov 2023 Enfants de résistants. Belgique. 1940-1945. (Children of Resistance fighters. Belgium.1940-1945.).

12 May 2023 De Bende van Nijvel. De feiten, het onderzoek, de toekomst. (The 'Nijvel Gang'. The facts, the investigation, the future.)

10 May 2023 The Resistance in Antwerp during the Second World War

17 Oct 2022 Study Day on the Resistance at the State Archives in Liège

23 Jun 2022 to 25 Jun 2022 THE GREAT(ER) WAR OF MILITARY OCCUPATIONS IN EUROPE

17 Jun 2022 Minutes of the conference “The Cold War and Belgium”, CegeSoma (17 June 2022)

25 May 2022 The Far Right : Lessons from History

26 Oct 2021 Reading rooms of the State Archives exceptionally closed on Tuesday 26 October 2021

14 Sep 2021 SAVE THE DATE & CALL FOR POSTER

26 May 2021 to 27 May 2021 International conference: Chosen Portraits, Subjected Portraits

06 May 2021 to 07 May 2021 Colonisation/Decolonisation: multiple and multifaceted memories. The case of Mons.

25 Nov 2020 Regards d'historiens (Historians' viewpoints)

10 Dec 2019 Colloquium about the 75th anniversary of the Liberation and the 50th anniversary of CegeSoma

10 Dec 2019 Study day on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of CegeSoma and the 75th anniversary of the Liberation

03 Oct 2019 Guerre, famille et transmission

14 Jun 2019 A workshop on looted library materials in Belgium during the Second World War

20 Mar 2019 The impact of the first World War in a colonial context

20 Feb 2019 De overlevenden: de oorlog van de Belgische oud-strijders tijdens het interbellum

01 Jan 2019 CegeSoma Public History Meetings – Second World War (2019–2026)

01 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2025 Young Historian's Day (Promotions of 2019-2025)

26 Sep 2018 to 06 Jan 2019 Brussels, November 1918.

05 Feb 2018 The State Archives meet the Universities on the Theme of Digitisation (2018)

14 Oct 2016 to 02 Apr 2017 War in Short Pants, 14-18

12 Dec 2012 to 17 Feb 2016 Historikerdialog