Past activities

6–7 December 2018

VIIIth Arenberg Conference for History: Addressing the Public Abroad. Strategies of Cultural and Public Diplomacy in the Early Modern Habsburg World (1550-1750)

This conference aims to examine a field that a number of historians and art historians have analyzed in the last two decades, but which has seldom been explicitly delineated or discussed in a comparative fashion: strategies of cultural and public diplomacy in the early modern Habsburg world (1550-1750). Therefore, this conference focuses on the different tactics employed by the representatives of foreign nations and groups – both official and unofficial – in influencing public opinion abroad and, in doing so, furthering diplomatic engagements.

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Conferences & seminars Arenberg Conference for History

26 November 2018

Talkshow "De Afspraak"

Duke Leopold was invited on the Belgian talkshow "De Afspraak" to talk about the Arenberg Festival and the Arenberg Foundation (Image: VRT.be)

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Press

21 November 2018

XIVth Prizes for History "Duke d'Arenberg"

This happening will take place on November 11 at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels.

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History Prizes "Duke d'Arenberg" Prizes

16 November 2018

Book presentation: La Maison d’Arenberg en France

On November 16th 2018, the important book about “La Maison d’Arenberg en France” was presented in Paris in collaboration with the 'Association Française pour la Protection des Archives Privées' (AFPAP) and the 'Association de la Noblesse de France' (ANF), based on fifteen years of hard work of twenty collaborators, mainly professors and archivists.

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Book presentation

8 November 2018

Belgian Queen Mathilde visits The Arenbergs in M-Museum, Leuven

Belgian Queen Mathilde makes news headlines with her visit of The Arenbergs in M-Museum (Images: VRTNWS).

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Exhibitions The Arenbergs Press