Cegesoma Newsletter
Conferences
From September to June, CEGESOMA regularly organises conferences and study days which aim to make recent research, sometimes concerning controversial topics, known to the public.
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International colloquium about Linked Data (ADOCHS project)
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Colloquium about the 75th anniversary of the Liberation and the 50th anniversary of CegeSoma
10 December 2019 – Senate Read more... |
“Children of the Resistance”: launch of the programme by Canvas at CegeSoma
This new series will be officially presented to the press and the public in the conference room of CegeSoma on the 1st of October 2019. Read more... |
Sixth Public History Encounter of the CegeSoma
'When photography becomes a historical source in its own right' Conference-debate (in French) on the occasion of the two new publications 'Bruxelles, ville libérée (1944-1945)' and 'La Wallonie libérée (1944-1945)' |
Colloquia of local history associations 'From Liberation to Victory' On 3 June and on 17 June, CegeSoma organised two colloquia, at the State Archives in Namur and at the State Archives in Ghent respectively, for anyone interested in local history about the period from the Liberation of the country in September 1944 to the final victory over Nazism in spring 1945. The following report presents an overview of the papers presented that can provide tools and guidance for further research about the subject, thereby also spreading the findings of the colloquium among those interested in local history. Read more... |
A workshop on looted library materials in Belgium during the Second World War On 14 June 2019, Dr Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (Harvard University) was invited as the main speaker to a workshop organised by CegeSoma and AMSAB - ISG about the Nazi's plunder of cultural heritage in Belgium during the Second World War. She is an internationally renowned expert who has been carrying out research on this issue for decades and still works on the subject. Read more... |
Conference in Leuven about archives and historical research
The theme of this year's conference is archives and scholarly research (Archive und wissenschaftliche Forschung). Read more... |
Workshop Plunder of Art and Heritage in Belgium during the Second World War - 14 June 2019 Recently Patricia Grimsted, the well-known American researcher on the history of the German looting of art and heritage in Europe during World War II, has addressed a number of Belgian researchers with a request to follow up on earlier research and publication projects.Read more... |
On Friday 22 November, the ADOCHS project (Auditing Digitalization Outputs in the Cultural Heritage Sector) organises an international colloquium about Linked Data at KBR (the Royal Library of Belgium). 
The heritage of the Second World War in Belgium. Future prospects for history? 
Following the high-profile TV-series “Kinderen van de collaboratie” (2017) and “Kinderen van de kolonie” (2018), the series “Kinderen van het verzet” will be broadcast on Canvas (VRT) from October 2019. 
Monday 30 September 2019 (12.30 pm – 2.00 pm) at CegeSoma
From 6 to 7 June, the yearly international archival symposium will take place in the Belgian State Archives in Leuven. 
