Events

Conference

CegeSoma Public History Meetings – Second World War (2019–2026)

Find below an overview of the CegeSoma Public History Meetings related to the Second World War, from 2019 to the present.

2019 23 April 2019 : The use of Violence in Times of War...Read more

Exhibition

Belgian Railways under Occupation: between Collaboration and Resistance

On 25 September, the temporary exhibition ‘ Belgian Railways under Occupation: between Collaboration and Resistance ’ has open at Train World in Schaerbeek.

This exhibition is part of the NMBS/SNCB'...Read more

Expo NAR – CNT - De sociale partners tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Les partenaires sociaux pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale - © FPS Employment

Exhibition

An exhibition on social partners during the war years

An exhibition on social partners during the war years opened on Wednesday, 4 February 2026 in the entrance hall of the Federal Public Service Employment, Labour, and Social Dialogue (FOD WASO/SPF Emploi). The exhibition is an...Read more

Conference

Folterfabriek Buchenwald. Overleven en collaboreren in een Duits concentratiekamp. (The Buchenwald Torture Factory. Surviving and Collaborating in a German Concentration Camp)

Lecture and discussion in Dutch with guest speaker Jan Willem Stutje An interview by Widukind De Ridder

CegeSoma and the non-profit organization Friends of CegeSoma are...Read more

Graphopresse, storage of paintings by Lucas Cranach and Robert Campin during World War II, Augustus 1939 at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, silvergelatin print, 12.9 x 17.9 cm, Photo collection Ruth and Peter Herzog, inv. no.: L0025_F9 © Collection by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron Kabinett, Basel, 2025

Conference

Looted Art and the Art Market: Nazi Art Theft in Belgium, Europe, and Its Aftermath.

On 11-12 June 2026, the Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium will host an international conference entitled Looted Art and the Art Market: Nazi Art Theft in Belgium, Europe, and Its Aftermath. This conference is organized in...Read more

22 Oct 2025 New critical Approaches on Communists and Communism in Belgium.

22 Oct 2025 Workshop report: New Critical Perspectives on Communists and Communism in Belgium.

23 Sep 2025 Exhibition - Belgian Railways under Occupation: between Collaboration and Resistance

19 Sep 2025 The Korean War and Belgium

19 Sep 2025 Workshop Report: “The Korean War and Belgium”

17 May 2025 80 jaar na de Tweede Wereldoorlog: welk verleden voor de toekomst?

11 Feb 2025 Snitching, Denunciation, Collaboration: How and Why Citizens Choose to Support Dictators

11 Dec 2024 War after war: The Belgian occupation of the left bank of the Rhine (1918-1930).

14 Nov 2024 Brussels toponymy, past and future

18 Sep 2024 to 20 Sep 2024 Changing Perspectives on Resistance during the Second World War

11 Sep 2024 to 13 Sep 2024 Pathways to Empire? Belgian Global Expansion 1830 - 1930

30 Aug 2024 September 1944: Belgium is liberated. What next ?

17 Apr 2024 A social history of the Resistance in small Belgian communes

29 Mar 2024 Senate colloquium on Belgian Railways and deportations in WWII

15 Mar 2024 Archival Research into the Economic Aspects of the Cold War

13 Dec 2023 Hoeders van de Staat. Burgemeesters in bezet en bevrijd België en Noord-Frankrijk (1914-1921). (Guardians of the State. Mayors in occupied and liberated Belgium and northern France (1914-1921)).

22 Nov 2023 Ordinary anti-Semitism. Investigating police practices in Cureghem.

01 Nov 2023 Enfants de résistants. Belgique. 1940-1945. (Children of Resistance fighters. Belgium.1940-1945.).

12 May 2023 De Bende van Nijvel. De feiten, het onderzoek, de toekomst. (The 'Nijvel Gang'. The facts, the investigation, the future.)

10 May 2023 The Resistance in Antwerp during the Second World War

17 Oct 2022 Study Day on the Resistance at the State Archives in Liège

23 Jun 2022 to 25 Jun 2022 THE GREAT(ER) WAR OF MILITARY OCCUPATIONS IN EUROPE

17 Jun 2022 Minutes of the conference “The Cold War and Belgium”, CegeSoma (17 June 2022)

25 May 2022 The Far Right : Lessons from History

26 Oct 2021 Reading rooms of the State Archives exceptionally closed on Tuesday 26 October 2021

14 Sep 2021 SAVE THE DATE & CALL FOR POSTER

26 May 2021 to 27 May 2021 International conference: Chosen Portraits, Subjected Portraits

06 May 2021 to 07 May 2021 Colonisation/Decolonisation: multiple and multifaceted memories. The case of Mons.

25 Nov 2020 Regards d'historiens (Historians' viewpoints)

10 Dec 2019 Colloquium about the 75th anniversary of the Liberation and the 50th anniversary of CegeSoma

10 Dec 2019 Study day on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of CegeSoma and the 75th anniversary of the Liberation

03 Oct 2019 Guerre, famille et transmission

14 Jun 2019 A workshop on looted library materials in Belgium during the Second World War

20 Mar 2019 The impact of the first World War in a colonial context

20 Feb 2019 De overlevenden: de oorlog van de Belgische oud-strijders tijdens het interbellum

01 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2025 Young Historian's Day (Promotions of 2019-2025)

26 Sep 2018 to 06 Jan 2019 Brussels, November 1918.

05 Feb 2018 The State Archives meet the Universities on the Theme of Digitisation (2018)

14 Oct 2016 to 02 Apr 2017 War in Short Pants, 14-18

12 Dec 2012 to 17 Feb 2016 Historikerdialog