This special webinar celebrates the launch of the project’s public heritage exhibition atkadocheritage.be. This online exhibition contains a selection of contributions produced by the project’s partners, outlining a wealth of civil society mobilizations by Central and Eastern European migrants in the Low Countries during the period 1933-1989. The exhibition’s purpose is to emphasize the potential that forgotten stories like these can play in curating the heritage, commemorating, and documenting the histories of the unique circumstances that these Central European émigré communities faced, living in Belgium and the Netherlands, during this tumultuous period of modern history. 

Presentation

The team behind the project “Émigré Europe” are glad to announce a special webinar celebrating the launch of the project’s public heritage exhibition atkadocheritage.be. This online exhibition contains a selection of contributions produced by the project’s partners, outlining a wealth of civil society mobilizations by Central and Eastern European migrants in the Low Countries during the period 1933-1989.The exhibition’s purpose is to emphasize the potential that forgotten stories like these can play in curating the heritage, commemorating, and documenting the histories of the unique circumstances that these Central European émigré communities faced, living in Belgium and the Netherlands, during this tumultuous period of modern history.

The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday 1 March 2023 from 16:00-18:00, and the team is delighted to host three notable keynote speakers who have demonstrated expertise in the fields of migration history and civil society during the Cold War.

Programme

Wednesday 1 March 2023

Chair: Dr. Jessie Labov, Corvinus University

• 16:05 – Introduction of the CELSA project “Émigré Europe” (Prof. Kim Christiaens, KADOC-KU Leuven)
• 16:10 – Introduction of the online heritage exhibition (Luke Dodds, KADOC-KU Leuven)
• 16:20 – Social and political mobilizations of Poles in Belgium, 1945-1989 (Prof. Idesbald Goddeeris, KU Leuven)
• 16:40 – A gender perspective on the self-mobilisation of migrants, their history and memory (Prof. Machteld Venken, University of Luxembourg)
• 17:00 – East-West migrant frameworks in twentieth-century Europe* (Prof. Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk)

17:20 – Audience questions and discussion

• 17:50 – Concluding remarks (Dr. Jessie Labov, Corvinus University)

*to be confirmed

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