Upcoming activities
9/01: Reading group IV: Who owns the Past? Claiming and contesting historical knowledge and authority.
23/01: Reading group V: Who owns the Past? Claiming and contesting historical knowledge and authority.
- 06/02: Reading group I: The historiographical operation
- 12/02: Lecture I “What is Historicization?” by Kenan Van de Mieroop (Universiteit Leiden)
- 26/02: Lecture II “History as Destruction” with the Sarton Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities, by Katherina Kinzel (Universiteit Utrecht)
- 13/03: Reading group II: Periodization and sovereignty
- 20/03: Lecture III “Historicization, Testimony and Epistemic Justice” by Jonas Ahlskog (Åbo Akademi University)
- 24/04: Lecture IV “Koselleck and the Historicization of Historicism” by Fernando Esposito (Universität Kostanz)
- 08:05: Reading group III: Unhistoricism in queer studies
- 13/05: Lecture V “Historicizing Gender” by María Inés La Greca (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
- 05/06: Reading group IV: Contextualism
- 26/06: Lecture VI “Historicization and the Legitimacy of Democracy” by Irène Herrman (Université de Génève)
Spreading the News
23/10: Lecture by Akira Nishimura: War memorials and religion in Japan

Past activities
- Reading group III: Who owns the Past? Claiming and contesting historical knowledge and authority. (19/12/2025)
- Reading group II: Who owns the Past? Claiming and contesting historical knowledge and authority. (28/11/2025)
- Lecture by Jonatan Kurzwelly (17/11/2025)
- Lecture by Russell Kilbourn (27/10/2025)
- Lecture by prof. dr. Didier Gondola (20/06/2025)
- Lecture Andrey Oleynikov (22/05/2025)
- CRG BOOK LAUNCH: Dr. Eva Willems will be in conversation with Goya Wilson Vasquez (University of Bristol) (20/05/2025)
- Conference Day in Dialogue with the Living Past (14/05/2025)
- Lecture Sebastian Conrad (08/05/2025)
- Workshop In Dialogue with the Living Past — Lise Zurné (26/03/2025)
- Workshop In Dialogue with the Living Past —Lieselot De Wilde (12/03/2025)
- Workshop In Dialogue with the Living Past Tina — Degendt (12/02/2025)
- Workshop In Dialogue with the Living Past —Karolina Kluczewska (26/02/2025)
- Lecture Fenneke Sysling (27/02/2025)
- Reading group In Dialogue with the Living Past (13/12/2024)
- Opening lecture EuroClio Chair of Historical culture in transition of Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (11/12/2024)
- Gespreksavond Geschiedenis in de Journalistiek (5/12/2024)
- Workshop Samuel Vander Straeten (18/11/2024)
- In Dialogue with the Living Past: reading group (08/11/2024)
- In Dialogue with the Living Past: reading group (18/10/024)
- Workshop Milan Francis (16/10/2024)
- Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century. Online Book Launch and Discussion (04/10/2024)
- Workshop “ARMED ARCHIVES. Studying Archives of non-state Armed Actors: Methodological challenges and new research avenues” (26-27/09/2024)
- In Dialogue with the Living Past: reading group (27/09/2024)
- Lecture Manu Karuka (09/09/2024)
- Presentation Talar Chahinian — Between Trauma, Language, and Statelessness: Cultural Legacies of the Armenian Genocide (15/05/2024)
- Presentation Ilkka Lähteenmäki —Museums and Mediation: digital content in museums brings up old challenges of representing past reality (07/05/2024)
- Reading groups: Mediators of historical culture: State actors and (shaping) historical culture (03/05/2024)
- Reading groups: Mediators of historical culture: Journalism and mediating the past. (19/04/2024)
- Reading groups: Mediators of historical culture: experts of historical knowledge in public spaces. (29/03/2024)
- Lecture Jason Steinhauer — History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past (13/03/2024)
- Reading groups: Mediators of historical culture: what is historical culture? (01/03/2024)
- Presentation Bowen Ran (10/11/2023)
- Populisme en Geschiedenis – Gespreksavond (19/10/2023)
Click here for an overview of our activities archive (2010-2024).