SHOC-member Leonie Vanlerberghe leads workshop on Gender in Personal documents
SHOC member Leonie Vanlerberghe recently led an engaging workshop on “Gender in Personal Documents” at the Spring Conference of the Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG), together with Stefan Kras (history teacher and PhD researcher) and Jessie Baerts (Master student Gender and Diversity Ghen...
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VACANCY DOCOTRAL RESEARCHER: FLOWS IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR. URBAN-ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES OF LABOUR, MATERIALS, AND MONEY
We are looking for 2 doctoral candidates to conduct research on the Brussels construction sector as a nexus of labour, materials, and capital, from the nineteenth century to the present.
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SHOC team wins VUB staff quiz!
Quiz champions! Once again, our SHOC members showed they’re experts in more than just history at the annual VUB staff quiz.
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TVO students present their posters on Faculty research day
On 26 May, the Faculty Research Day @VUB brought together PhD students from the Faculty of Languages and Humanities for a full day of exchange, inspiration and academic discovery. It was a great opportunity to connect with fellow researchers and explore each other’s work.
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SHOC celebrates third birthday with lecture by Andreas Malm
Last Tuesday, 19 May, SHOC celebrated its third anniversary with an inspiring lecture by Prof. Andreas Malm (Lund University).
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New article by SHOC member Brent Huygh
SHOC member Brent Huygh has published his first academic article, titled "Commercialisation from below: the Brussels gateway roads in the eighteenth century", in the History of Retailing and Consumption. Click here to read the publication. Abstract During the early modern per...
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Call for Papers: People on the Move in Late Medieval Europe
SHOC member Bart Lambert is guest editing a special issue of the peer‑reviewed, Web of Science–indexed journal Histories on late medieval human mobility.
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Vacancy: Doctoral Researcher in the History of Midwifery
1 – Working at Vrije Universiteit Brussel For more than 50 years, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has stood for freedom, equality and solidarity, and this is very much alive on our campuses among students and staff alike.
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Foragency's second podcast series: The Foragers: Engagements beyond the Human
Following the success of the podcast series ‘Introducing Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities ’, which ran from 25 November 2024 to 16 December 2024, the team behind the Foragency project is delighted to announce a new podcast series, which will run for the next four weeks.
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'Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen: Stadsgeschiedenis van Nederland en België' nominated for the Kleio Class Prize 2026!
In March 2025, the book “World Cities of the Low Countries: Urban History of the Netherlands and Belgium” was published, in which various authors, including SHOC historians Anne Winter and Klaas Van Gelder, wrote about fifty cities that were pre-eminently world cities.
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Portrait of SHOC colleague Nel de Mûelenaere in the exhibition “Women shaping Science”
Female scientists make a difference every day — in research, policy and society. With “Women Shaping Science”, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is putting them in the spotlight through a powerful photo exhibition.
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Among Fellows and Footnotes: Bart Lambert in Cambridge
From January to April, our colleague Bart Lambert is a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge — one of Cambridge’s institutes for advanced study, dedicated to supporting postgraduate researchers and international scholars.
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