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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · 10d

📖 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...

'Schaduw van het Wilde Westen: de ellende van Arm Vlaanderen was geen echo uit lang vervlogen tijden, maar een product van de globalisering'

Maandagochtend 30 maart 1840, ergens te velde in Tielt. Graaf Jean-Baptiste d’Hane de Potter weet uit pure gêne niet waar te kijken. Terwijl hij luistert

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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 13d

📚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...

Aesopus. Op de slavenmarkt in de oudheid | Letteren en Wijsbegeerte | Universiteit Antwerpen

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · 23d

🖋️ 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...

Halal Food in Tokyo and Telling Better Stories about the West - Power in History

Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi is where elegant Tokyoites, dressed in matching attire with their partners, dine in … "Halal Food in Tokyo and Telling Better Stories about the West"

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Aug 28

🔎 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-...

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Aug 25

📚 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...

Arm Vlaanderen. Een wereldgeschiedenis | Letteren en Wijsbegeerte | Universiteit Antwerpen

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Aug 8

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...

Widening the scope of political historiography: A brief report on the conference “How to Decolonize Political History” (Antwerp, 18-20 June 2025) - Power in History

From 18 to 20 June 2025, Power in History had the honor to host the 12th annual conference … "Widening the scope of political historiography: A brief report on the conference “How to Decolonize Politi...

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Jun 18

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:
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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Jun 13

📢 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...

Doctoraatsbursaal geschiedenis voor onderzoeksproject Historicizing healing | Universiteit Antwerpen

YUFE vacature

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Jun 12

📚 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...

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Jun 6

📣 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...

Call for abstracts | Diversiteit en inclusie in archieven en (erfgoed)bibliotheken | Universiteit Antwerpen

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Jun 4

📚 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...

Provincializing “New” Diplomatic History: An Interdisciplinary Manifesto

Abstract A group of young scholars revisit the aims, nature, and purpose of New Diplomatic History.

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · May 26

🔍 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...

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Eline Ceulemans @elineceulemans.bsky.social · May 26

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

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Apr 29

🗺️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/...

Studiereis Bosnië | Geschiedenis | Universiteit Antwerpen

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Apr 22

📢 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/...

Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean Workshop | DiplomatiCon-net | University of Antwerp

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Apr 22

📢 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...

How to Decolonize Political History | How to Decolonize Political History | University of Antwerp

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢 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

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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · Feb 14

Today! 👇

Best of luck, @jsegerink.bsky.social 🍀

UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · Jan 28

📢CSG member @jsegerink.bsky.social gladly invites you to the public defence of his doctoral dissertation, "The Lodging House and the City. Accommodating Migrants in Urban Space, Antwerp, 1850-1914."

🗓️ 14/02, 15:00
📍 Auditorium FelixArchief (Oude Leeuwenrui 29)

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Association for Political History @associationpolhist.bsky.social · Feb 10

Submit your proposal for panel/papers today for the next APH conference in Antwerp!

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Association for Political History @associationpolhist.bsky.social · Jan 31

Still time to submit your panel/paper proposal for next APH conference on 'How to decolonize political history?'

Deadline: 10 February
📍Antwerp, Belgium
📆 18-20 June 2025
Apply on the dedicated website👇

marnixbeyen.bsky.social @marnixbeyen.bsky.social · Jan 29

The website for our conference "How to decolonize political history" (Antwerp, 18-20 June 2025, organized by @associationpolhist.bsky.social and @uantwerppohis.bsky.social) is out: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...! Only 11 days left to submit a proposal for a panel or paper.

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margotluyckfasseel.bsky.social @margotluyckfasseel.bsky.social · Feb 7

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...

Doctoral scholarship holder in the field of History and/or Sociolinguistics focusing on the Congolese Diaspora in Belgium | University of Antwerp

YUFE vacancies

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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · Feb 7

🆕 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? 👇

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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · Feb 5

📝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

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Feb 5

ℹ️ Info & inschrijven: www.uantwerpen.be/nl/overuantw...

Filmscreening 'Venus d'ailleurs' | Letteren en Wijsbegeerte | Universiteit Antwerpen

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Feb 5

🎥 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

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UAntwerp PoHis - Centre for Political History @uantwerppohis.bsky.social · Jan 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...

marnixbeyen.bsky.social @marnixbeyen.bsky.social · Jan 29

The website for our conference "How to decolonize political history" (Antwerp, 18-20 June 2025, organized by @associationpolhist.bsky.social and @uantwerppohis.bsky.social) is out: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...! Only 11 days left to submit a proposal for a panel or paper.

How to Decolonize Political History | How to Decolonize Political History | University of Antwerp

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