Past Activities

30 June – 2 July 2022

Xème Conférence d’Arenberg pour l’Histoire: Les noblesses transnationales, XIIIe-XXe siècle

En étudiant les pratiques et les marqueurs de la "transnationalité", cette rencontre a pour objectif de questionner les processus de formation et de persistance de noblesses inscrites dans des espaces pluriels qui se distingueraient des noblesses exclusivement "nationales". L’inscription transnationale entraîne-t-elle une modification des comportements, des habitudes, des manières de penser?

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Conferences & seminars Arenberg Conference for History

28 March 2022

Séminaire: relation russo-belge et russo-européenne: quel avenir dans le monde qui change?

Because of the political situation, we are forced to cancel the conference about Russia on March, 28th with the hope to present again this topic in the future in a spirit of openness.

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Conferences & seminars Seminar

18–20 September 2019

IXth Arenberg Conference for History: Heraldic Hierarchies: Identities, status and state intervention in early modern heraldry

Over the past decades, the study of the adoption and use of arms within a wide range of social groups has questioned the exclusive association between heraldry and nobility. Yet, while considerable research has been done on the medieval heydays of the system, historians as well as heraldists usually steer clear from later developments.

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Conferences & seminars Arenberg Conference for History

20 March 2019

Conference: Energy supply in the XXI century: between reality and possibility

Conference held in the Belgian senate: "Energy supply in the XXI century: between reality and possibility".

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Conferences & seminars

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