Events

Bruno De Wever & Koen Aerts, copyrights Thomas De Boever

Conference

“Oorlogscafés”: Collaboration and repression in Flanders

On 24 November, Koen Aerts ( UGent /State Archives-CegeSoma) and Bruno De Wever ( UGent ) launched a new type of lectures in Gent titled “ Oorlogscafés ”. Partners are the Davidsfonds and the...Read more

Conference

The rescue of Antwerp diamonds in May '40.

Conference-debate (in Dutch) with Bruno Comer as guest speaker . A discussion led by Dirk Luyten (CegeSoma/Dtate Archives).

We are at the beginning of World War II in Belgium and the rapid advance of the Germans is causing havoc throughout the...Read more

16 Nov 2022 Fallen from the sky. The fate of pilots shot down in Europe, 1939-1945.

07 Nov 2022 to 08 Nov 2022 Media and cultural life in occupied Western Europe (1940-1945)

19 Oct 2022 The energy crisis: a sense of 'déjà vu'?

17 Oct 2022 The Resistance: New research tools, new approaches

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

17 Jun 2022 Belgium and the Cold War

08 Jun 2022 Ukraine : Clash of nationalisms during two world wars

25 May 2022 The Far Right : Lessons from History

24 May 2022 Military justice and executions in the context of post-World War II repression in Belgium: the results of the Postwarex research project

09 May 2022 Which future for the Journal of Belgian History?

05 May 2022 to 06 May 2022 Review of study day 'Young Historians' - Promotions of 2020- 2021

26 Apr 2022 Trains and the Holocaust. From a Symbol of Progress to a Genocidal Tool.

25 Apr 2022 The Resistance in Belgium during the Second World War

20 Apr 2022 Les prisonniers de guerre allemands en Belgique après la Seconde Guerre mondiale (German war prisoners in Belgium after the Second World War)

21 Mar 2022 Debate evening (ADVN): "No Flanders without Germany?"

17 Nov 2021 Interférences : Radios, collaborations et répressions en Belgique (1939-1949)

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

13 Oct 2021 Belgium, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. A Guide to Sources on of the History of Colonization. Towards a better shared heritage! (2021)

22 Sep 2021 Frantz Van Dorpe : a resistance member against liberal democracy.

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.

11 Mar 2021 National forgetting and memory : the destruction of 'national' monuments from a comparative perspective

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

11 Nov 2020 Join us online for the launch of the book 'Experiencing 11 November 2018: Commemoration and the First World War Centenary' (Routledge)

10 Nov 2020 11 November Lecture 2020

19 Oct 2020 First review of some ongoing research projects at CegeSoma (2020)

12 Mar 2020 to 13 Mar 2020 Cultures of Spectacle in German-occupied Belgium.

20 Feb 2020 Gurs, history and memory of the Spanish republican exile (1939)

22 Jan 2020 Book launch: Gerlinda Swillen, 'Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist unsere Wiege - Eine ostbelgische Geschichte (mit Zeitzeugenberichten von Wehrmachts- und GI-Kriegskindern)'

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

28 Nov 2019 Conference of ‘Young historians’ 2018-2019

03 Oct 2019 Guerre, famille et transmission

30 Sep 2019 When photography becomes a historical source in its own right

19 Jun 2019 Current challenges for a war museum?

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

16 May 2019 L'histoire d'espoir de la résistante armée Sarah Goldberg

25 Apr 2019 Editathon UGESCO

23 Apr 2019 The use of Violence in Times of 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

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