Cegesoma Newsletter
Welcome to CEGESOMA/State Archives of Belgium
CEGESOMA, Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Society, is the Belgian centre of excellence for the history of 20th century conflicts. It carries out research, organises public events and holds document collections. It is since 1 January 2016 the fourth Operational Directory of the State Archives. It is a platform for academic and public activities in Belgium and abroad, in particular with regard to the two World Wars.
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... |
New articles on the Blog of Belgium WWII What's new on the Belgium WWII-blog?A couple of months ago we announced the launch of the Belgium WWII-blog. Since then, new articles have been published online. They deal with current debates on the perception of the Second World War, the challenges with regard to remembrance of the war as well as new forms of interactions with the target audience of historical projects. Read more... |
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... |
New issue of the JBH out now
It contains four articles, a section about doctoral theses and a number of reviews. Earlier in 2019, the price of JBH issues was significantly lowered, so this first issue is available at a very reasonable price. Read more... |
Conference ‘TRANSMEMO’ (memories of collaboration and resistance)
During a full-day program TRANSMEMO will present the results of the research while political scientists, psychologists and historians will reflect on the legacy of this past. 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... |
International Conference ‘Holocaust Studies and Its Social Setting’
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The first issue of the JBH for the year 2019 has been published. 
On Thursday 3 October 2019 we will co-organize a conference of the research project TRANSMEMO in the senate of Belgium. In this project historians and psychologists investigate how Belgian families with a history of collaboration or resistance remember and experience the legacy of the Second World War. 
From 6 to 7 June, the yearly international archival symposium will take place in the Belgian State Archives in Leuven. 
To conclude the second phase of the project “European Holocaust Research Infrastructure”, with the State Archives/CegeSoma being one of its partner institutions, an international conference is going to be held in Amsterdam on July 3, 2019. 
