Civil action: Inauguration of the ‘Monument des pionniers’ in the Cinquantenaire Park “The Grand Opening”
Civil action: Inauguration of the ‘Monument des pionniers’ in the Cinquantenaire Park “The Grand Opening”. In line with the Brussels-Capital Region’s action plan “Towards the Decolonisation of Public Space”, urban Brussels commissioned the architectural collective Traumnovelle to create an installation titled “The Grand Opening” in front of the Monument to the Belgian Pioneers in Congo […]
Workshop WP2 -WP3: Working session at the Royal Museum for Central Africa
Yasmina Zian (ULB), Aline Bosuma & François Makanga (Afropean Project), and Alana Castro de Azevedo (CEGESOMA). Tervuren (Belgium), June, 2024
Seminar: Amalia Gilodi, “Utrecht University and Colonial Legacies: Looking at Past, Present, and Future”
Presentation by on the Horizon Europe project CONCILIARE on changing colonial heritage in Europe. Utrecht (Netherlands), 26 June, 2024
Workshop WP2 -WP3: Public Space team and Museum team visiting the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (Belgium)
Two visits. Tervuren (Belgium) June, 2024
Conference: “Héritages du colonialisme et relations intergroupes actuelles”
15th Congrès International de Psychologie Sociale, Presentations by of CONCILIARE members Joaquim Pires Valentim, Rosa Cabecinhas, Giovanna Leone, Jacques Kalumba (University of Lubumbashi, DRCongo) & Ana Cabrita (University of Coimbra). Brussels (Belgium), 11-13 July, 2024.
Conference: Yasmina Zian, “Understanding Colonial Cultural Heritage Changes: A Collaborative Approach”
Public History and Community-Based Research, EUROPAST Mid-Project Conference, Belval-Luxembourg, 05-06 July, 2024. Flyer here.
Seminar: “Critical Approaches to Race”
The seminar “Critical Approaches to Race” is organized by the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Group for Studies and Research on Migration and Ethnicity (GERME). Jean Illi, a researcher at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) at ULB, is one of the co-organizers of this seminar series. This seminar aims to […]
Workshop WP1: “Social Psychology International Workshop. Colonial legacies in print: Textbooks from the 1950s to the present day”
Participants (beyond masters and doctoral students): Joaquim Pires Valentim, Teresa Forte, Emiliano Abad Garcia, Felix Meuer, Sérgio Carvalho, Ana Cabrita (University of Coimbra; Coordinator of CONCILIARE; co-leader of WP1). Inari Sakki (University of Helsinki; co-leader of WP1). Giovanna Leone (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’; WP1 Participant). Aline Bosuma, François Makanga, Mars Florin (AfroPean, Brussels; WP1 […]
Seminar: “Training and reflection seminar on decolonial theories and approaches. Defining Anti-Blackness through the Actions of Belgian Colonialism: Taming, Domesticating, Appropriating”
The seminar titled “Defining Anti-Blackness through the Actions of Belgian Colonialism: Taming, Domesticating, Appropriating” was held on October 30, 2024, at UCLouvain Saint-Louis in Brussels. Organized by the Centre de recherches et d’interventions sociologiques (Césir) and the Centre de Recherches en Histoire du droit, des institutions et de la société (CRHiDI), the event featured Véronique […]
Conférence “Mise en débat des symboles d’un passé contesté dans l’espace public”
On November 12, 2024, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, in collaboration with the Brussels Studies Institute, hosted a seminar titled “Debating the Symbols of a Contested Past in Public Space”. The event featured presentations by Joost Vaesen (BRIO, VUB), Serge Jaumain (MMC, ULB), and Iadine Degryse (BSI), with a discussion led by Laura Nsengiyumva (KASK, Hogeschool Gent) […]