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Van hardnekkige volksnamen tot de beperkte zichtbaarheid van nieuwe vernoemingen: de dynamiek achter Brusselse toponymie blijkt complexer dan gedacht.
In dit interview met Bruzz licht Dennis deze bevindingen toe — een gesprek dat zeker de moeite waard is om te beluisteren!

Dit werk brengt de herkomst van meer dan 5.000 straatnamen in kaart en toont hoe historische keuzes, lokale gewoontes en maatschappelijke evoluties het straatbeeld blijven vormen.

SHOC‑collega’s Dennis De Vriese en Matthijs De Graeve traden mee op als editors van het nieuwe boek "Brusselse plaatsnamen".

Don’t forget to register if you want to attend - you'll find the registration form via the link.

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Curious about the title? Be sure to check out the abstract via the link below for a closer look at the ideas behind it. Join us on the VUB campus on 19 May 2026, from 18:00 to 20:00 in room I.0.01 for what promises to be a thought-provoking and timely discussion.

SHOC turns two — and we’re celebrating with something special!

We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Andreas Malm for an lecture exploring the longue durée of capitalism and its environmental foundations: “The Political Ecology of Charlemagne – Or, What, If Anything, Is Special about Capitalism?”

Join us for our last seminar of this semester! Katja Bruisch on Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy. Click here for more info 👇

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Together, they wander through themes of astrology, mythology, and domestic arts, unfolding a rich dialogue on the relationships between humans, non-humans, and land. Here, plants are not just materials, but active agents in shaping worlds.

Listen now and step into a more entangled way of seeing 🌱

Episode 2 of The Foragers is out today 🌿

In this new conversation, artists Samah Hijawi and Juliette (Kin Hands) join Gosie Vervloessem to reflect on foraging as part of their creative practice—sharing the plants they grow, cook with, and gather in their surroundings.

Listen to the first episode and stay tuned! There is more to come...

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Host and co-curator Gosie Vervloessem speaks with artists about foraging as a method, a metaphor, and a way of rethinking care, community, and our relationship with the more-than-human world. An invitation to ask: what do we take from places, and how do we honour that exchange?

For this round, we delve into The Foragers: Engagements beyond the Human, a series of public events that brings together artists, researchers, and enthusiasts around the practice of foraging.

🎙️Something new is in the air...
@foragency.bsky.social launches a second podcast series! 🎙️

Met bijna 20 panelleden en 2 workshops biedt deze studiedag een forum om de kansen, risico’s en uitdagingen van AI binnen het historische landschap te verkennen!
➡️Programma: lnkd.in/e_pn-gDq
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❗Tot en met 22 april kan je je inschrijven voor de Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis met als thema Ctrl-Alt-History: (Digital) humanities meets AI.

SHOC seminar with Hannes Ziegler (Technische Universität What was the State? Officiating and Litigating in Early Modern EnglandResearch into early modern state-building has developed quite a bit over the past decades

Don't miss out on our next SHOC Seminar! Monday, 23 March: Hannes Ziegler (Technische Universität Dresden): "What was the State? Officiating and Litigating in Early Modern England". Everyone welcome, but please register via shoc@vub.be.

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📢 MEET THE TEAM! Charlotte Van Riet is an interdisciplinary PhD-Candidate in History and Archaeology. 🏰 🦷 🧪 Charlotte started her career at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2017 with an… | Make-Up ... 📢 MEET THE TEAM! Charlotte Van Riet is an interdisciplinary PhD-Candidate in History and Archaeology. 🏰 🦷 🧪 Charlotte started her career at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2017 with an education i...

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Speakers hail from Belgium, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Czechia, the Russian Federation, Georgia, Armenia, and Egypt.
Check out the full programme here 👇

The keynote speakers are Nik Matheou (University of Edinburgh) and Irina Arzhantseva (Insitute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences).

This conference features two days of papers on a variety of topics, from the Caucasian slave trade, to the place of women in medieval Armenian society, to the bioarchaeology of the medieval Caucasus.

This Friday and Saturday 13/14 March: First International Conference of the Medieval Caucasus Network.
"Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus"

Bray will situate such developments in a larger historical context and discuss what they mean for the future of far right politics in the US and Europe.
More info on registration via this link:

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He will analyze how the American far right has evolved over the past decade, how antifascist movements have responded, and what resistance to Trump and ICE looks like in the US today.

Mark Bray will speak about mounting authoritarianism in the United States through the lens of his experience fleeing the country after being targeted by the far right as a “domestic terrorist professor” for the publication of his 2017 book Antifa.

Upcoming seminar: Mark Bray on Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Trump’s United States - 2 April 2026

SHOC seminar with Thomas Rommel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel Intertextuality and The Wealth of Nations : Contextualizing Adam SmithIn 1776 Adam Smith, the by-then famous author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, published

Thomas Rommel (VUB-CLIC) will join us with a lecture: "Intertextuality and The Wealth of Nations : Contextualizing Adam Smith." You are welcome to participate, but we kindly ask you to register via shoc@vub.be.

We look forward to seeing you then!

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SHOC seminar with Thomas Rommel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel Intertextuality and The Wealth of Nations : Contextualizing Adam SmithIn 1776 Adam Smith, the by-then famous author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, published

Don't forget - Monday 9 March 2026 is our next SHOC seminar!