Upcoming events

You are welcome to join us for an inspiring evening with Sophie De Schaepdrijver as she presents Dance with a Bully: Occupied Brussels in the First World War, part of the Ties That Bind Us lecture series.

Staging Time and Rivalry: News Prints on Charles V's Roman Triumph in the Low Countries In April 1536, Charles V entered Rome in triumph, and the weeks that followed brought sharp political and diplomatic confrontation. This lecture looks less at what happened than at how it was told.

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Urban wellbeing and recovery: the case of fire disasters in the late medieval Low Countries The wide range of preventative spatial and material measures, vigilance around everyday dangers, and firefighting protocols could not avoid that incidents – small and large – happened from time to ti...

Resource Extraction, Commodity Cycles, and Environmentalism in Africa Industrialised mining and oil drilling have caused extreme and lethal environmental transformation across Africa in the twentieth century.

Seeing Stepfamilies in the Past This seminar will focus on a collaborative book project using material and visual culture to study commissioned artworks portraying families and everyday objects made by family members to consider who counted as part of the family and to see the cumulative, b...