Past events

On Friday 13 March 2026, VISU-member Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans will take part a the two-day seminar called Mapping Diaspora: Voices, Practices, and Identities Beyond Borders .

On March 8, 2026, VISU-member Brenda Bikoko will take part in Women of Photography 24-Hour Conference-A-Thon with her presentation titled 'Pia Arke and Maud Sulter's Decolonial Visions Through Photography'.

We are delighted to invite you to our next guest lecture by Dr. Marta Wódz as part of the Global Art Histories series.

On Friday, the 20th of February, VISU-member Jelrik Hupkes will present his research during the Research Seminars in Architecture at KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm.

How do we understand freedom not only as a right, but as a responsibility? What can the past teach us about resisting the erosion of democracy? Timothy Snyder, renowned for his work on Central Europe, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, remains one of today’s most incisive historians.

Visit Troubled Archives' exhibition What The Image Cannot Hold between 11-21 December 2025 at Brass in Forest.

On 4 December 2025, VUB and ULB jointly award honorary doctorates to five Brussels artists: Stromae, Amélie Nothomb, Lize Spit, François Schuiten and Ever Meulen. The festive ceremony takes place at Bozar in the great hall Henry Le Bœuf.

The exhibition ‘Marie de Hongrie: Art & Pouvoir à la Renaissance’ at the Musée royal de Mariemont (from 22 November 2025 to 10 May 2026) highlights the political, diplomatic and artistic role of a central 16th-century figure: Mary of Hungary, sister of Emperor Charles V and governor of the Low Count...

The VISU Meeting will host presentations by two visiting researchers from the Rubenshuis, Barbara Kaminska and John White, along with four new VISU PhD researchers, Zoe Kennis, Jelrik Hupkes, Lotte Nijsten, and Laiwo Xie and Sophie Herz, who is currently working on her FWO application.

On Friday 7 November 2025, Caterina Cardamone will be presenting at the conference "Architecture and the Literary Imagination" at the American University of Rome.

VISU members Caterina Cardamone, Pieter Martens and Tom Packet will present their research at the annual Construction History Society conference in Cambridge on 26-27 September 2025.

Lecture given by Prof. Christophe Loir and Dr. Tom Packet on 16 September 2025 on the evolution of mobility during the interwar period as an essential factor in understanding Art Deco.