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1952 photo of a group of soldiers from the Belgian Korea Battalion (all rights reserved)
Workshop

The Korean War and Belgium

On 25 June 1950, troops from communist North Korea invaded capitalist South Korea. The civil war on the Korean peninsula soon turned into an international military conflict, in which also Belgian soldiers took part. Meanwhile...Read more

19/09 2025
Study day

New critical Approaches on Communists and Communism in Belgium.

On October 22, CegeSoma/State Archives, in collaboration with CArCoB/Dacob and MoSa 1800-2000 (KU Leuven) , is pleased to invite you to participate in an international workshop on the theme 'New critical Approaches on...Read more

22/10 2025
19 Jun 2025 Commemorating the Holocaust in green spaces: tensions and contestations in London and Amsterdam
22 May 2025 Appartements témoins. La spoliation des locataires juifs à Paris, 1940-1946.
23 Apr 2025 Borms, a family between collaboration and resistance.
13 Mar 2025 The Royal Military Museum: a lively place for history
26 Feb 2025 Mechelen 1940-1945. Biografie van een stad in oorlog.
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).
09 Dec 2024 International Chair for the History of the Second World War 2024-2025
28 Nov 2024 to 29 Nov 2024 Young historians have their say!
14 Nov 2024 Brussels toponymy, past and future
21 Oct 2024 Launch of the “Resistance in Belgium” national platform
10 Oct 2024 Stil verzet. De oorlogsjaren van August Vermeylen 1939-1945 (Silent Resistance: The war years of August Vermeylen 1939-1945)
26 Sep 2024 Het verzet in Antwerpen (The Resistance in Antwerp)
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 ?
19 Jun 2024 World War II in podcasts
05 Jun 2024 La Wallonie entre Noirs et Rouges. Un autre regard sur les tensions politiques de l'entre-deux-guerres.
28 May 2024 Ces Dames de Ravensbrück. Contribution au mémorial belge des femmes déportées à Ravensbrück, 1939-1945
15 May 2024 De afrekening. Geweld tegen collaborateurs in Antwerpen, 1918 en 1944-1945.
13 May 2024 On the margins of history. Current research, debates, challenges.
19 Apr 2024 Young Historian's Day (Promotions of 2019-2024)
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
16 Mar 2024 to 08 Sep 2024 War Damages 1940-1945. The scale of destruction in five Hainaut cities.
15 Mar 2024 Archival Research into the Economic Aspects of the Cold War
13 Mar 2024 Escaping Nazi Europe Understanding the experiences of Belgian soldiers and civilians in World War II
20 Dec 2023 Scènes de Crimes. La photographie policière, témoin de l'enquête judiciaire. (Crime Scenes Police photography, a witness to the judicial investigation)
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)).
29 Nov 2023 The last 242 executions in Belgium: military justice and executions as part of the repression of collaboration after World War II.
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.).
25 Oct 2023 Weg van ‘t Stad! De Antwerpse exodus naar West-Vlaanderen 1944-1945 (Away from the City ! The Antwerp exodus to West Flanders 1944-1945)
24 May 2023 Tu rendras un grand service à l'Angleterre, 1943-1945. L'odyssée de Jacques de Duve.
22 May 2023 German secret police and intelligence services in Belgium
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
22 Mar 2023 'Een Verzwegen Leven' (A covert life)
22 Feb 2023 Le mystère de la femme sans tête (The mystery of the headless woman)
25 Jan 2023 How did the Nazis manage to plunder so many works of art in Belgium?
21 Dec 2022 The rescue of Antwerp diamonds in May '40.
24 Nov 2022 to 24 Apr 2023 “Oorlogscafés”: Collaboration and repression in Flanders
16 Nov 2022 Fallen from the sky. The fate of pilots shot down in Europe, 1939-1945.
07 Nov 2022 to 08 Nov 2022 Media and cultural life in occupied Western Europe (1940-1945)
19 Oct 2022 The energy crisis: a sense of 'déjà vu'?
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)
08 Jun 2022 Ukraine : Clash of nationalisms during two world wars
25 May 2022 The Far Right : Lessons from History
24 May 2022 Military justice and executions in the context of post-World War II repression in Belgium: the results of the Postwarex research project
09 May 2022 Which future for the Journal of Belgian History?
06 May 2022 Overview of contributions related to the Cold War - Study day 'Young Historians' - Promotions of 2020 – 2021
26 Apr 2022 Trains and the Holocaust. From a Symbol of Progress to a Genocidal Tool.
25 Apr 2022 The Resistance in Belgium during the Second World War
20 Apr 2022 Les prisonniers de guerre allemands en Belgique après la Seconde Guerre mondiale (German war prisoners in Belgium after the Second World War)
21 Mar 2022 Debate evening (ADVN): "No Flanders without Germany?"
17 Nov 2021 Interférences : Radios, collaborations et répressions en Belgique (1939-1949)
26 Oct 2021 Reading rooms of the State Archives exceptionally closed on Tuesday 26 October 2021
13 Oct 2021 Belgium, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. A Guide to Sources on of the History of Colonization. Towards a better shared heritage! (2021)
22 Sep 2021 Frantz Van Dorpe : a resistance member against liberal democracy.
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.
11 Mar 2021 National forgetting and memory : the destruction of 'national' monuments from a comparative perspective
25 Nov 2020 Regards d'historiens (Historians' viewpoints)
11 Nov 2020 Join us online for the launch of the book 'Experiencing 11 November 2018: Commemoration and the First World War Centenary' (Routledge)
10 Nov 2020 11 November Lecture 2020
19 Oct 2020 First review of some ongoing research projects at CegeSoma (2020)
12 Mar 2020 to 13 Mar 2020 Cultures of Spectacle in German-occupied Belgium.
20 Feb 2020 Gurs, history and memory of the Spanish republican exile (1939)
22 Jan 2020 Book launch: Gerlinda Swillen, 'Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist unsere Wiege - Eine ostbelgische Geschichte (mit Zeitzeugenberichten von Wehrmachts- und GI-Kriegskindern)'
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
30 Sep 2019 When photography becomes a historical source in its own right
19 Jun 2019 Current challenges for a war museum?
14 Jun 2019 A workshop on looted library materials in Belgium during the Second World War
16 May 2019 L'histoire d'espoir de la résistante armée Sarah Goldberg
25 Apr 2019 Editathon UGESCO
23 Apr 2019 The use of Violence in Times of 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
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