Activities archive (2011-2020)

2021-2022

• Lecture Kenan Van De Mieroop – Conflicting Conceptions of Intergenerational Justice throughout History
• Reading Group Series on “Responsibilizing History: What does responsible history look like?” (part 2), Spring 2022

2020-2021

• Online Première Screening of the movie ‘Los Retornados’ on 20/02/2021
• Reading group series on “Responsibilizing History: Does History call for Justice”? (part 1), Spring 2021

 

2019-2020

• Conference: “Restitution of Colonial Collections in Europe”, 02/12/2019-03/12/2019
• Debate: “Restitution of Colonial Collections in Belgium”, 04/12/2019
• Lecture: “Theoretical Innovations in Emergent Concepts of Historical Time”, 21/02/2020 by Hélio Robello
• Doctoral School Workshop Series “Practicing History in Super-Diverse Societies”, AMSAB, Ghent, November-May 2020
  • Friday 22th of November 2019 | 12:30 – 14:30, Karel Arnaut (KU Leuven)
  • Wednesday 4th of December 2019 | 12:30 – 15:30, Ciraj Rassool (University of the Western Cape)
  • Friday 17th of January 2020 | 12:30 – 14:30, Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse (KU Leuven)
  • Friday 7th of February 2020 | 12:30 – 14:30, Maarten Van Alstein (Vlaams Vredesinstituut)
  • CANCELLED: Friday 28th of February 2020 | 12:30 – 14:30, Jessica de Abreu (Black Archives Amsterdam)
  • CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 MEASURES: Wednesday 18th of March 2020 | 13:30 – 15:30, Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
  • CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 MEASURES: Friday 27th of March 2020 | 12:30 – 15:30, Kodzo Gavua (University of Ghana),
  • CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 MEASURES: Friday 24th of April 2020 | FIELD TRIP KAZERNE DOSSIN and Hannah Arendt Institute Mechelen | 10:00 – 15:00, Introduction by Christophe Busch (previous museum director Kazerne Dossin): Heritage in ‘fluid times’, Guided tour of the permanent exhibition by Dorien Styven (Kazerne Dossin, researcher and archivist)

 

2018-2019

• Debate, Workshop & Reading Group Series on Decolonizing practices and discourses in Belgium: possibilities, pitfalls, dilemmas (2018-2019)
  • 09.11.2018 | Lorenzo Veracini – “Decolonisation’s Travels”
  • 28.11.2018 | Rolando Vazquez – “What does it mean to decolonize today? Introducing the decolonial option”
  • 18.01.2019 | Françoise Vergès and Laura Nsengiyumva – “Decolonizing artistic interventions in Belgium”
  • 15.03.2019 | Collectif Mémoire Coloniale – “Decolonizing colonial heritage and education in Belgium”
  • 07.05.2019 | Leonor Jonker – “More than just an object: a material analysis of the return and retention of Namibian skulls from Germany”
  • 17.05.2019 | Olivia Rutazibwa – “The End of the White World: Decolonial Strategies for Belgium”
  • 31.05.2019 | Véronique Clette Gakuba – “Debating the resitution of African cultural objects and arts in Belgium”

 

2017-2018

• Conference “(Dis)Claiming Pasts: Ownership, Responsibility and Contestation”, 14/12/2017 – 15/12/2017, Ghent University
• Lecture by Petra James, “The expulsion of Germans in contemporary Czech novels as an attempt at a ‘reconciliation historiography'”, 01/06/2017, Ghent University
• Lecture by Malin Arvidsson, “Compensation of irretrievable matters: state redress for involuntary sterilisation and abuse in out-of-home-care for children”, 26/04/2017,  Ghent University
• Lecture by Hans Ruin, “The origin of burial and the archeological record”, 13/03/2017,  Ghent University
• Workshop with Chris Lorenz, “History, identity and collective memory”, 09/03/2017,  Ghent University
• Lecture by Tyson Retz, “The history and function of empathy in historical studies”, 20/01/2017,  Ghent University
• Lecture by Kate Temoney, “When killers become victims: genocide and religious mythoi”, 10/01/2017,  Ghent University

 

2016-2017

• Debate, Lecture Series and Reading Groups on Colonial Legacies in the Low Countries (2015-2016)

 

2014-2015

• Lecture Series on History, Historical Dialogue and Reconciliation – Promises, Criticism & Dilemma’s (2014-2015)
  • 03/11/2014: Timothy Ryback – “The Politics of Memorialization:  Victim Sites versus Perpetrator Sites”
  • 18/11/2014: Valerie Rosoux – “Memory versus Reconciliation: dealing with festering wounds”
  • 01/12/2014: Catherine Chalier – “Two philosophers facing the history of the 20th century: Levinas and Ricœur”
  • 04/12/2014: Ed Jonker – Over historische excuses, morele genoegdoening en verzoening – Gastcollege in het kader van het vak Theoretische Geschiedenis (Masteropleiding Geschiedenis) – 13-15u30 AUD C Blandijn
  • 10/02/2015: Peter Romijn – “Historians are not alone. War crimes, politics of memory and professional  engagement”
  • 19/05/2015: Claire Norton & Mark Donnelly – “Thinking the past politically: Palestine, Power and Pedagogy”
  • 26/05/2015: Murat Çelikkan – Screening of Bûka Baranê
    

2013-2014

• Workshop Transitional Justice, History and Memory 25 June 2014: Michael Humphrey (University of Sydney, Australia) and Estela Valverde (Macquarie University, Australia) – “Amnesty, Memory and Transition: Reburials of the Past in Spain and Uruguay” [10h-12h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
  Followed by an afternoon presentation of ongoing UGent research projects by TAPAS members Lore Colaert, Tessa Boeykens and Gisele Iecker de Almeida + feedback session lead by Michael Humphrey and Estela Valverde. [13:00h-15:30h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]

 

• Lecture series “The Historian and the Judge”
  • 29 January 2014: Nina Schneider (University of Konstanz, Germany) – “‘Transitional justice’ in Brazil? Conceptual and empirical concerns from a historian’s perspective” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
  • 13 February 2014: Thijs Bouwknegt (NIOD Amsterdam) – “History beyond a reasonable doubt. Unraveling past atrocity in international criminal trials?” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
  • 12 Maart 2014: Pieter Lagrou (Université Libre de Bruxelles) – “The Gospel of the superiority of the present over the past? Reclaiming the critical potential of history in the era of human rights” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
  • 16 April 2014: Hannah Franzki (University of London, Birkbeck College) – “Between memory and Eingedenken: some comments on the Politics of Time in International Criminal Justice” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
• 11 December 2013: Prof. Dr. Willem de Haan (VU University Amsterdam) – “Knowing what we know now’: Problems of anachronism and judgment of past international crimes” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
• 12 December 2013: Prof. Dr. William Gallois (Exeter University, UK) – Guestcollege on non-Western philosophies of history [13h20-16u00; Blandijn (Blandijnberg 2) – Auditorium C] (In collaboration with the course of ‘Theoretical History’)

 

2012-2013

• 20 March 2013: Dr. Martijn Eickhoff (Radboud University Nijmegen) – “Rawagede, het Nederlandse Mỹ Lai?” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
• 19 February 2013: projection documentary ‘Mostrame’ (2006) about the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) and its effects on contemporary Argentina. The documentary will be presented by its maker Anneleen Hermans. [15h-17h30; Film-Plateau. Paddenhoek 3
• 22 February 2013: Prof. Dr. Maarten van Dyck (Ghent University) – “Introduction to the work of Michel Foucault” [15h30-17h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003
• 23 January 2013: Dr. Nanci Adler (Center for Holocaust Studies, Amsterdam) – “Communism’s ‘Bright Past’: Loyalty to the Party despite the Gulag” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
• 14 December 2012: workshop with Prof. Dr. Wulf Kansteiner (SUNY Binhamton) on the theme ‘Turning National Guilt into Transnational Political Capital: German Political Elites and the Legacy of World War II in Europe’ [13h30h-17h30; Ghent University, Faculty of Economics, ground flour, Auditorium VI (T), Sint-Pietersplein (http://www.feb.ugent.be/nl/Fac/Plans/plannen.asp).
• 13 December 2012: Prof. Dr. Wulf Kansteiner (SUNY, Binghamton, NY) – Guestcollege on the theory of history [13h-15u00; Blandijn (Blandijnberg 2) – Auditorium C] (In collaboration with the course of ‘Theoretical History’)
• 14 November 2012: Thijs Bouwknegt (NIOD, Amsterdam) – “Unraveling atrocity. Transitional justice experiments in Rwanda and Sierra Leone” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
• 10 October 2012: Dr. Vladimir Petrovic (NIOD, Amsterdam) – “Clio takes the stand: Historians as Expert Witnesses in the Age of Transitional Justice” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]

 

2011-2012

• 15-12-2011: Prof. Dr. Frank Ankersmit – “De waarheid  van de historische representatie” [14h-15u30; Blandijn (Blandijnberg 2) – Aud D] (In collaboration with the course of ‘Theoretical History’)
• 2-12-2011: Prof. Dr. Kalle Pihlainen (Åbo Akademi University; Finland) –  “History writing and the challenge of complex representation” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
• 24-11-2011: Sarah Vanagt – “Het verleden op de tast”  [13h-15h30; Blandijn (Blandijnberg 2) – Aud D] (In collaboration with the course of ‘Theoretical History’)
• 9-11-2011: Prof. Dr. Steven Vanden Broecke – “Astrology, historicity, and care for the self. The case of Marcus Cicero’s De divinatione (45 BC)”. [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]

 

2010-2011

• 26-10-2011: Dr. Emiliano Acosta – “Ideeën voor een geschiedenis van de filosofie vanuit agonistisch perspectief” [12h30-14h; UFO (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35) – Room 110.003]
• 28-01-2011: Berber Bevernage – “History by parliamentary vote. History, ethics and politics in the Lumumba-commission.”
• 17-12-2010: Aurélie Van de Peer – “De dynamiek van verandering in hedendaagse modekritiek”
• 26-11-2010: Sarah Posman – “How Special is Charles Olson’s ‘Special View of History’?”
• 29-10-2010: Broos Delanote – “De historische conditie: over de geschiedfilosofische bijdrage van Paul Ricoeur” (12.30)

 

Past Reading Groups

• 02/12/2014: Discussion on RICOEUR (P.), “Chapter 2: The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses”, In: Memory, History, Forgetting.
• 16/12/2014: Discussion on CROCKER (D.A.), “Punishment, reconciliation and democratic deliberation”, In: BARKAN (E.), KARN (A.) (eds.), Taking Wrongs Seriously. Apologies and Reconciliation, pp. 50-83.
• 13/01/2015: Discussion on DE BAETS (A.), Historical Imprescriptibility, In: Storia della Storiografia, 59-60 (2011), 128-149.
• 24/02/2015: Discussion on MACLACHLAN (A.) “The philosophical controversy over political forgiveness”, In: STOKKOM (B.A.M.) (et. al., eds.) Public Forgiveness in Post-Conflict Contexts.
• 17/03/2015: Discussion on RÜSEN (J.), “How to Overcome Ethnocentrism: Approaches to a Culture of Recognition by History in the Twenty-first Century”, In: History and Theory, Vol. 43, No. 4, Theme Issue 43: Historians and Ethics (Dec., 2004), pp. 118-129.
• 05/05/2015: Discussion on WILSON (R. A.), Anthropological Studies of National Reconciliation Processes, In: Anthropological Theory, September 2003, 3, pp. 367-387.
• 11 June 2014: discussion on Howard Zinn, “What is Radical History?” [11h00-12h30; Library Rozier – Vleugel Magnel, Room “Borges”]. Discussion followed by pizza lunch if you like to join!
• 2 July 2014: discussion on Justin Champion, “What are historians for?” [Time and place to be confirmed].
• 16 July 2014: discussion on Joan W. Scott, “History-writing as critique”. In: Jenkins, Munslow and Morgan, “Manifestos for History” [Time and place to be confirmed].
• 30 July 2014: discussion on Peter Toohey, “The cultural logic of historical periodization”. In: G. Delanty and E.F. Isin (eds.), “Handbook of Historical Sociology” [Time and place to be confirmed].
• 13 August 2014: discussion on George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “The new age”. In: Hegel, “Political writings”, trans. Nisbet [Time and place to be confirmed].

• 5 February 2014: discussion session on Dipesh Chakrabarty, “History and the Politics of Recognition” [12h30-14h30; Bluesette – Sint-Kwintensberg 85]

• 12 February 2014: discussion session on Martin Wossner, “Reconsidering the Slaughter Bench of History: Genocide, Theodicy, and the Philosophy of History” [12h30-14h30; Bluesette – Sint-Kwintensberg 85]

• 26 February 2014: discussion on Gabrielle Spiegel, “Memory and History: Liturgical Time and Historical Time” [12h00-14h30; Bluesette – Sint-Kwintensberg 85]

• 19 March 2014: discussion on Eelco Runia, “Burying the Dead, Creating the Past” [12h00-14h30; Bluesette – Sint-Kwintensberg 85]

• 2 April 2014: discussion on Ryan Vieira, “Connecting the New Political History with Recent Theories of Temporal Acceleration: Speed, Politics and the Cultural Imagination of Fin de siècle Britain” [12h00-14h30; Bluesette – Sint-Kwintensberg 85]

• Friday 1 March 2013: Helge Jordheim “Against Periodization:Koselleck’s Theory of Multiple Temporalities” In: History and Theory, 51 (2012) 2, pp. 151-171. [12h30; Bluessette: Sint-Kwintensberg 85, 9000 Gent‎]

• Friday 15 March 2013: Jürgen Habermas, “Modernity’s Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance.” In: The Philosophical Discours of Modernity. MIT Press, 1990, pp. 1-22. [12h30; Bluessette: Sint-Kwintensberg 85, 9000 Gent‎]

• Friday 29 March 2013: Alexandre Escudier, ‘Temporalisation’ and Political Modernity. A Tentative Systematization of the Work of Reinhart Koselleck. In: Fernández Sebastián  Javier (ed.), Political Concepts and Time. New Appraoches to Conceptual History. Santander, Cantabria Univesity Press, 2011, 131-177. [12h30; Bluessette: Sint-Kwintensberg 85, 9000 Gent‎]

• Friday 12 April 2013: Veronica Tozzi, The Epistemic and Moral Role of Testimony. In: History and Theory, 51 (2012) 1, pp. 1-17.
• Friday 26 April 2013: Hayden White, “Politics, History, and the Practical Past.” In: Storia della Storiografia, 61 (2012), pp. 127-134. [12h30; Bluessette: Sint-Kwintensberg 85, 9000 Gent‎]
•  Friday 10 May 2013: Mark Salber Phillips, “Rethinking Historical Distance: From Doctrine to Heuristic.” In: History and Theory, 50 (2011), pp. 11-23. [12h30; Bluessette: Sint-Kwintensberg 85, 9000 Gent‎]
• Friday 22 February 2013 and Friday 8 March 2013: Indroduction by Prof. Dr. Maarten van Dyck to Michel Foucault’s “L’archéologie du savoir/The Archeaology of Knowledge”. Participants: Broos Delanote; Kenan Van De Mieroop; Zoe Claeys; Jelten Baguet; Egon Bauwelinck; Anton Froeyman; Ruben De Roo; Britt Dams; Berber Bevernage. [13h; Bluessette: Sint-Kwintensberg 85, 9000 Gent‎]
• 14 November 2013: Thijs Bouwknegt: “Unraveling atrocity. Transitional justice experiments in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.”
• 2013 (exact  date unknown): R.G. Collingwood “The Idea of History”. Participants: Anton Froeyman, Emiliano Acosta, Sarah Posman, Dunja Seselja, Boris Demarest, Broos Delanote, Christian Strasser, Eric Schliesser, Tjerk Gauderis
• 2013 (exact date unknown) Frank Ankersmit “De sublieme historische ervaring/Sublime Historical Experience”
• 2013 (exact date unknown) Michel De Certeau “l’Ecriture de l’Histoire/The Writing of History”. Participants: Berber Bevernage, Anton Froeyman, Christophe Madelein, Broos Delanote, Aurelie Van De Peer, Kenan Van De Mieroop, Jasper Rigole
• 2013 (exact date unknown) Theodor Adorno “Negative Dialektik”.