🖋 Nieuwe blogpost! Marnix Beyen schreef een blogpost voor de PoHis-blog over hoe de lectuur van Gustave Flauberts L’éducation sentimentale hem verrassende, nieuwe inzichten gaf in het academisch debat over subalterniteit. Lees de blog hier: blog.uantwerpen.be/power-in-his...

📢 New blog! ✍🏻 Lara Sarcinella & Dr. Kim Overlaet share reflections on Dr. Kholoud Al-Ajarma’s lecture about Palestinian refugee camps and the role of small-scale agriculture as resilience and everyday resistance. 👉 Read the full reflection on the MIGLOBA blog: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

On Thursday 27 November (14:00–16:00), Anse De Weerdt will defend her PhD dissertation titled 'The Politics of Light: Colonial Power, Knowledge Transmission, and The Magic Lantern in Belgium (1885–1945)' in Brussels. The entrance is free, but register by sending an email to [email protected]

💻Webinar series The DiplomatiCon Team is pleased to announce the launch of the DiplomatiCon Seminars, a new webinar series dedicated to the study of Mediterranean diplomacy between the 13th and 15th centuries. For more information, the program and registration: www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...

De Standaard omschreef 'Arm Vlaanderen', het nieuwste boek van PoHis-lid Maarten Van Ginderachter onlangs als een van de beste geschiedenisboeken van het jaar! Lees het hier👇 www.standaard.be/media-en-cul...

📖 Boekvoorstelling | Onvoltooid verleden. Spanje onder en na Franco door Vincent Scheltiens Vijftig jaar na Franco onderzoekt dit boek hoe Spanje evolueerde van dictatuur naar democratie en hoe het verleden blijft nazinderen. 🗓 20 nov | 19u30 🔗Meer info & Registratie: ertsberg.be/events/boekv...

🎥 Film & Q&A Join us tomorrow (16/10) for a screening of ''Sniper Alley – To My Brother'' The documentary follows Džemil Hodžić and his project Sniper Alley, collecting images from world-renowned war photographers from the siege of Sarajevo. Info/Registration: www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uan...

📖 Deze week verschijnt het nieuwe boek ‘Arm Vlaanderen. Een wereldgeschiedenis – Honger, ziekte en globalisering in het midden van de 19de eeuw’ van Maarten Van Ginderachter! Lees de voorpublicatie bij Knack 👉 www.knack.be/nieuws/cultu...

📚Boekvoorstelling Op woensdag 5 november stelt Christian Laes zijn nieuwste boek voor: Aesopus. Op de slavenmarkt in de oudheid. Na afloop nodigen we je van harte uit op de receptie. 🔗Info/Inschrijven: www.uantwerpen.be/nl/overuantw...

🖋️ New blogpost! PoHis-member Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi wrote a blog post about her research stay in Japan and how the example of Halal food led her to reflect on better ways for Europe to define its relationship with the Muslim world. 👉 Read it here: blog.uantwerpen.be/power-in-his...

🔎 Workshop | The Korean War & Belgium 75 years after the outbreak of the Korean War, CegeSoma is hosting a workshop on Belgium’s role in this “forgotten war.” 📅 Fri 19 Sept 2025, 12:45–18:00 📍 CegeSoma, Brussels 💶 €5 (on site) 👉 Full program and Registration here: www.cegesoma.be/nl/event/de-...

📚 PoHis en Uitgeverij Horizon nodigen u uit op de boekvoorstelling van Maarten Van Ginderachter, Arm Vlaanderen. Een wereldgeschiedenis. 🗓️ 22/10/2025 – 19u 📍 Stadscampus UAntwerpen 💡 Gratis, inschrijven 👇 www.uantwerpen.be/nl/overuantw...

From 18 to 20 June 2025, Power in History had the honor to host the 12th annual conference of the Association for Political History. The organizers Marnix Beyen, Margot Luyckfasseel and Burak Sayim have published a report on the conference on the PoHis blog: blog.uantwerpen.be/power-in-his...

Thirty years after the genocide in Srebrenica many questions and challenges remain. These questions will be approached from very different perspectives during a roundtable discussion on June 30, 2025 at the UAntwerpen. Register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

📢 Vacancy alert: Doctoral scholarship holder for the project ‘Historicizing healing’. The project investigates practices and concepts of healing in Western Europe in the early modern period, based on an analysis of ego-documents. 👇Info/Apply: www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

📚 New publication alert! PoHis-member Michèle Corthals published her new article: ‘For Food and Freedom: Female Resistance, Hunger Demonstrations and Looting during the Second World War in Belgium’. 👉 Access the open access publication online: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣 Call for abstracts! Congres over Diversiteit en Inclusie in Archieven en (Erfgoed)Bibliotheken op 8 oktober 2025 aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. 🔍 Hoe werk je aan inclusieve collecties, metadata en publiekswerking? 🗓️ Deadline abstracts: 1 juli 🔗 Info & indienen: www.uantwerpen.be/nl/congresse...

📚 Publication alert! In the article 'Provincializing “New” Diplomatic History: An Interdisciplinary Manifesto’ PoHis-member Eline Ceulemans and nine other young researchers revisit the aims, nature, and purpose of New Diplomatic History. 📰Read it here: doi.org/10.1163/2589...

🔍 Nieuwe digitale databank Het project S.O.S. Antwerpen heeft gewerkt aan een grootschalige reconstructie van doodsoorzaken in Antwerpen 1820-1946. Het project werd 22 april afgerond en de databank is nu te vinden op de website van het felixarchief: felixarchief.antwerpen.be/detailtoegan...

Wonderful to present my research on 'Translating (Belgian) Empire' (@uantwerppohis.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social) at the #NDH6 conference in Aix! Big shout-out to the organisers, participants & everyone involved for again turning it into a thought-provoking event! @ndh-network.bsky.social

🗺️Afgelopen week trokken masterstudenten geschiedenis die het traject politieke geschiedenis volgen aan de UA op studiereis naar Bosnië-Herzegovina. Prof Marnix Beyen hield een verslag bij dat te lezen is via onderstaande link: www.uantwerpen.be/nl/studeren/...

📢 Call for Papers: Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean The DiplomatiCon Project invites scholars to submit papers for a two-day interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Antwerp on September 18-19, 2025. 🔗More information: www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...

📢 Conference: How to Decolonize Political History Join us (June 18-20, 2025) for a conference on rethinking methodologies, sources, and narratives to move beyond colonial and elitist perspectives in political history.🌍📖 📍 Conference Center Grauwzusters 📝 Register: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

📢 Pohis kindly invites you to the public lecture of Prof. Dr. Eleni Tounta, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on "The travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d'Ancona in the Aegean Sea: Humanism, early colonial politics, and agency". 🗓️ 25/03 🕔 17-18:30 📍S.KS.104 @uantwerpen.be

Today! 👇 Best of luck, @jsegerink.bsky.social 🍀

Submit your proposal for panel/papers today for the next APH conference in Antwerp! @marnixbeyen.bsky.social

Job opportunity! The University of Antwerp is looking for a PhD candidate to work on language vitality among the Congolese diaspora in Belgium, supervised by Mieke Vandenbroucke and myself. It is more important than ever to put Congo and its people on the map! 🇨🇩 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

🆕 We're hiring! The Faculty of Arts is looking for a doctoral scholarship holder focusing on the Congolese Diaspora in Belgium. You will work actively on the preparation of a PhD thesis on the Congolese Diaspora in Belgium adopting a historical and/or sociolinguistic approach. More info? 👇

📝Call for Sessions! The 17th EAUH Conference will be held in Barcelona, 2-5 September 2026. The call for sessions is now open. The conference theme is 'City Networks in Europe and Beyond'. Deadline: 15 April 2025. More information: eauh.eu/eauh2026

🎥 Stemmen uit Subsaharaans Afrika? Op 3 april vertonen we de documentaire 'Venus d'ailleurs' in aanwezigheid van regisseur Patrick J. Exenat, begeleid door een lezing over de Tirailleurs Sénégalais door PoHis-lid @dominiekdendooven.bsky.social (Yper Museum). 📍 R.008 @uantwerpen.bsky.social 🕡 18:30

🚨 Deadline 10 February 2025! Don't miss the 12th Annual Conference of the @associationpolhist.bsky.social: "How to decolonize political history"! 🗓️ 18-20 June 2025 📍 @uantwerpen.bsky.social 🔗 www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

🚨 In 1970, Yvonne Sterk made headlines as the first European female freedom fighter for the Palestinian Cause 📝 Anse De Weerdt (ARIA & ULB) analyses Sterk's reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Journal of Belgian History, based on her thesis @uantwerpen.bsky.social ⬇️

📚 Waarom geschiedenis studeren aan @uantwerpen.bsky.social? 🗣️ Romy Cockx en Christin Ho studeerden geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. Ontdek hoe onze alumni hun passie voor geschiedenis omzetten in een boeiende carrière en laat je inspireren door hun verhalen: youtu.be/B3DhbkCDeAw

🚨 Join our Department of History! 📜 DiplomatiCon: A Connected History of Medieval Mediterranean Diplomacy 🔍 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial History @uantwerpen.bsky.social @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social #vacancy 📅 Deadline: March 1 ℹ️ Details: www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

📢 Nice turnout for our lecture 'Syria’s Revolution & Its Aftermath: Islamism, Geopolitics & Gender Dynamics' by Anna Rajkowska @eui-eu.bsky.social & PoHis members Burak Sayım & Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi @uantwerpen.bsky.social The engaging Q&A highlighted the need for more research, dialogue & action

👛 Wist jij dat de consument op de politieke radar kwam tijdens de Franse Revolutie? In haar recent verdedigde onderzoek toont @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social & PoHis-lid Charris De Smet hoe het Franse parlement fel debatteerde over de opkomende consumptiemaatschappij 🔗 Meer weten? tinyurl.com/4usetmv8

📢 PoHis kindly invites you to our public lecture on 'Syria’s Revolution and Its Aftermath: Islamism, Geopolitics, and Gender Dynamics'! 🗣️ w/ Anna Rajkowska @eui-eu.bsky.social & PoHis members Burak Sayım & Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi @uantwerpen.bsky.social 🗓️ 16/01 🕔 17h 📍 R007 tinyurl.com/26tkxmsp

📰 PoHis-lid @marnixbeyen.bsky.social @uantwerpen.bsky.social reflecteert in De Morgen over het dubbelgezicht v/d Noord-Atlantische politieke moderniteit in tijden van oorlog: "Een grondige reflectie op wat ‘het Westen’ betekent & kan betekenen, is vandaag dus op haar plaats." 🔗 tinyurl.com/ynuc4ahs

In gesprek met De Morgen over de groei van de Spaanse economie.

🚨 The next APH conference, 'How to decolonize political history?', will be held @uantwerpen.bsky.social & is organized by several PoHis and @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social members. The #cfp is out now! ▶︎ Deadline submissions: 10 February 2025! ℹ️ More info: www.associationforpoliticalhistory.org?p=2670

Very glad that @uantwerppohis.bsky.social organizes the next International APH-conference! And even more glad that the call for panels and papers is out. With a big thanks to my colleagues @margotluyckfasseel.bsky.social and Barak Sayim for co-organizing this with me!

💝 Steun jij ook onze buitenlandse studiereis? De opleiding geschiedenis @uantwerpen.bsky.social engageert zich al jaren om alle masterstudenten een meerdaagse buitenlandse studiereis te laten meemaken. Zo bieden we hen een laagdrempelige & betekenisvolle vorm van internationalisering aan.

In het licht van de tentoonstelling “Keizersdochter tussen macht en imago” (MOU Museum) gaat @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social-lid Guido Marnef dieper in op Margaretha van Parma's opvallend beleid als landvoogdes over de Lage Landen. Meer weten? O.a. via de PoHis blog: blog.uantwerpen.be/power-in-his...

Interesting PhD position at our department! Apply before: 15/01! 👇

Follow our PoHis members on Bluesky! Check out our latest starter pack: go.bsky.app/3WPccFs

🎓 Yesterday, PoHis & CSG member Charris De Smet (@urbanhistoryua.bsky.social, @uantwerpen.bsky.social, Université Lumière Lyon 2) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, 'Framing French Consumers into Citizens'. We now proudly present to you Dr. De Smet! 👏

📢 Pohis & CSG member Charris De Smet (@uantwerpen.bsky.social, Université Lumière Lyon 2) gladly invites you to the public defence of her doctoral dissertation: 'Framing French Consumers into Citizens'! 🗓️ 10/12 🕒 15:00 📍 Felixarchief 📧 Please confirm before 3 December: [email protected]