Past events

South African professor Premesh Lalu gives a lecture about The Herds, a groundbreaking public art and climate initiative designed to inspire action and renew our bond with the natural world.

What was the State? Officiating and Litigating in Early Modern England Research into early modern state-building has developed quite a bit over the past decades, lending more depth and complexity to such processes.

SHOC is excited to share the conference programme for the upcoming International Conference of the Medieval Caucasus Network!

Intertextuality and The Wealth of Nations : Contextualizing Adam Smith In 1776 Adam Smith, the by-then famous author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments , published his Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations .

It was only a few weeks ago that SHOC had the honour of presenting the new publication of " Consent: Een geschiedenis van dwang en vrije wil en alles daartussenin (Lannoo, 2025)', co-edited by SHOC member Jolien Gijbels.

Air, Alleys, and Affection: The Politics of the Housing Survey between Basel, Liège, and Berlin This paper traces the emergence, circulation, and transformation of a survey method that gained prominence at the end of the nineteenth century through the interplay between the Belgian tradition of enquê...

  Welcome to the film screening of Neptune Frost, an Afrofuturist sci-fi musical about resistance, digital debris and reclaiming what’s been left behind.

This Friday, 23 January 2026, SHOC colleague Reinout Vander Hulst will give a presentation entitled "Missionaries and Violence", which is taking place as part of a series of lectures organised by MoSa and KADOC, focusing on the history of Protestant and Catholic missionaries in colonial and postcolo...