UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History
urbanhistoryua.bsky.social
UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History
@urbanhistoryua.bsky.social
The Centre for Urban History (CSG) examines urbanised societies and patterns of urbanisation from the Middle Ages to the present.
📢 New blog! ✍🏻

Lara Sarcinella & Dr. Kim Overlaet share reflections on Dr. Kholoud Al-Ajarma’s lecture about Palestinian refugee camps and the role of small-scale agriculture as resilience and everyday resistance.

👉 Read the full reflection on the MIGLOBA blog:
www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
Gardens in Refugee Camps | Migloba | University of Antwerp
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November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Juliette Bour has been named co-laureate of the 2025 Thesis Award from the Institute du Genre! Her doctoral work offers a powerful and meticulously researched analysis of fifteen Rwandan women who held positions of authority during the 1994 genocide.

More info: institut-du-genre.fr/en/soutien_r...
Thesis Awards — Institut du Genre
Sorry, this entry is only available in FR.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🖋 New publication alert!

In ‘Living heritage at Hofstad: teaching the history of urban farming with hands in the dirt’, CSG-members Cécile Bruyet and Tim Soens highlight the on-going Hofstad project of the university of Antwerp.

Read it here:
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Urban Agriculture Magazine 42 - Urban agriculture as heritage  - RUAF Urban Agriculture and Food Systems
Produced in collaboration with the INSUAH project and with supplementary funding from Urban Futures, this edition brings together voices of practitioners, researchers and policymakers.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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📯Publication alert! What can 7,500 divine references in early modern letters tell us about how people imagined their futures? And how do you measure something as elusive as belief?
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
📢 New publication alert!

In her latest article in Revue Communications, CUH-member Juliette Bour examines how the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda sought not only to kill, but to erase: to replace absence with emptiness.

Read more here: shs.cairn.info/revue-commun...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🖋 Publicatie alert!
Tussen 1820 en 1946 noteerde de Antwerpse burgerlijke stand systematisch de doodsoorzaken van bijna 500.000 personen, een unieke bron in België.
CSG-lid Tom Hacha onderzoekt het ontstaan, de werking en betekenis van dit uitzonderlijke register.

Meer info:
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HistoriANT 13 - 2025 - Genootschap voor Antwerpse Geschiedenis
Voorwoord ArtikelsMarc Hendrickx, Een middeleeuwse woontoren in de Antwerpse burcht? Een hypothese vanuit de iconografie en de schepenregistersJoachim Verstappe, Christophorus Butkens (1590-1650). Een...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🖋 Publicatie alert!
Tijdens de Duitse bezetting van België in WOI bleef sekswerk opvallend aanwezig in Antwerpen.
CSG-lid Dea Van den Brande onderzoekt hoe sekswerkers zich toen organiseerden via ruimtelijke clustering, tactische mobiliteit en informele netwerken.

Meer info:
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HistoriANT 13 - 2025 - Genootschap voor Antwerpse Geschiedenis
Voorwoord ArtikelsMarc Hendrickx, Een middeleeuwse woontoren in de Antwerpse burcht? Een hypothese vanuit de iconografie en de schepenregistersJoachim Verstappe, Christophorus Butkens (1590-1650). Een...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
📢 Nieuwe publicatie!

Jasper Segerink onderzoekt in “Een nacht in de stad” hoe trans-Atlantische migranten (1850–1914) tijdelijk verbleven in Antwerpen en welke sporen ze nalieten.

Meer informatie op de website van HistoriANT:
gvag.be/historiant/2...
October 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚨 New publication alert!

In Social History, CUH member Kristof Loockx & Laura Caruso (UNSAM) explore how public festivities and acts of solidarity shaped collective identity in the sailortowns of Antwerp and Buenos Aires.

👉 Find the publication here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Port communities on both sides of the Atlantic: neighbourhood life and public festivities in the sailortowns of Antwerp and Buenos Aires, c.1880–1930
At the intersection of maritime and sociocultural history, this article offers a global and connected perspective on local histories by focusing on the social construction of internatiogal port dis...
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October 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🎥 Film & Q&A

Join us tomorrow (16/10) for a screening of ''Sniper Alley – To My Brother''
The documentary follows Džemil Hodžić and his project Sniper Alley, collecting images from world-renowned war photographers from the siege of Sarajevo.

Info/Registration:
www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uan...
Sniper Alley - To my brother | Arts | University of Antwerp
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October 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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We have just put the Zotero bibliography of the Back2theFuture project online. www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/... Throughout the project we have built this bibliography which we hope can serve the scholarly community #skystorians interested in the following subjects:
| Back to the Future | University of Antwerp
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October 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📢 Reminder: Call for Papers EAUH 2026

Just 12 days left to submit your proposal for the European Association for Urban History Conference in Barcelona (2–5 September 2026)!

Members of the CUH are (co-)organising several exciting sessions.

www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu
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EAUH 2026 Conference City Networks in Europe and Beyond Barcelona, September 2-5, 2026 Paper Submission Sessions Overview Presentation Benvinguts! Welcome to the seventeenth conference of the European...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
FWO news! 🎉

The Centre for Urban History is delighted to share that CUH members Antje De Herdt, Rick Faust and Evert Lambrechts have each been awarded an Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) PhD Fellowship!

Warm congratulations to all three researchers on this wonderful achievement!
October 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
📢 New publication!

In the Journal of Urban History, CUH’s Kristof Loockx shows how Antwerp & Boston’s port districts (c.1900) were diverse, gendered, and locally rooted, challenging the idea of “sailortown” as solely male & transient.

Find the article here:
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October 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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New book publication ❗ 📖

Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique.

It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿

#medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges

For the contents, see below 👇
Prices and Crises
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October 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🌐 Online Lecture: Artemis Project
📅 Wed 15 Oct, 12:00 CEST

CUH member Iason Jongepier presents “A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps” as part of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar series.

🎟️ Free attendance! More info + tickets:
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Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps
Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)
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October 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
📚Boekvoorstelling

Op woensdag 5 november stelt Christian Laes zijn nieuwste boek voor: Aesopus. Op de slavenmarkt in de oudheid. Na afloop nodigen we je van harte uit op de receptie.

🔗Info/Inschrijven:
www.uantwerpen.be/nl/overuantw...
Aesopus. Op de slavenmarkt in de oudheid | Letteren en Wijsbegeerte | Universiteit Antwerpen
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September 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🎉My co-authors Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts are absolutely delighted to share this news with the world. Read our article for the unique source, short lottery poems, and for the digital history methods we have used to deal with the mass of these so-called prozen.
📢 The 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Scheltinga, Budts, and Puttevils for ‘(Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI’

ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...
2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp) for their a...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🖋️CUH member @margotluyckfasseel.bsky.social is spending 4 months in Accra on a research fellowship at MIASA, University of Ghana.

In her new blogpost, she shares how a bag of plantain chips led her to Ghana’s history as a place of refuge for African Americans.

www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
| Centre for Urban History | University of Antwerp
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September 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🌍 Toerisme: zegen of last?
Al in 1926 dachten Belgen aan een “taks op vreemdelingen” toen toeristen het land overspoelden.
🖋️ Lees de nieuwe CSG-blog van Silke Geven over de geschiedenis van klachten én maatregelen rond toerisme:

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“Van de kwade der vreemde bezoekers, verlos ons heer!” | Centre for Urban History | University of Antwerp
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September 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
📢 Nog geen plannen vanavond?
Ontdek het oudste én langst bewaarde doodsoorzakenregister van België (1820–1946) 🗃️ Bijna 500.000 namen digitaal via FelixArchief.

Vanavond 20u: digitale lezing door CSG-onderzoeker Tom Hacha 👉 "Van Arts tot Ambtenaar"
🔗 gvag.be/lezingen/202...
September 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
📢 Nieuwe opiniebijdrage
Ilja Van Damme, professor stadsgeschiedenis, schreef een opiniestuk naar aanleiding van de recente bomenkap in Deurne in het kader van de tramspoorwerken.
Lees het volledige artikel hier: www.demorgen.be/meningen/pro...
In Antwerpen lijken de doldwaze jaren 50 en 60 terug, toen het credo was: ‘bouwen, bouwen en nog eens bouwen’
Ilja Van Damme is professor stadsgeschiedenis aan de UAntwerpen en auteur van Historische Atlas van Antwerpen. Hij stelt vast dat burgerprotest wordt gecriminaliseerd, terwijl adviezen genegeerd worde...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🔗Archief Stadsgeschiedenis nu digitaal!
Het archief van het tijdschrift Stadsgeschiedenis is nu digitaal toegankelijk! Nummers van het tijdschrift van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download.
Het digitale archief is hier te vinden: lup.be/archief-stad...
Archief Stadsgeschiedenis | Leuven University Press
Nummers van het tijdschrift ‘Stadsgeschiedenis’ van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download. Klik op het nummer voor de downloadlink. 2006 – 1 > 2006 – 2 > 2007 – 1 > 2007 – 2 > 2008 – 1 > ...
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August 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🏆 Congrats to CSG member Sam Geens for winning the pre-1800 PhD Dissertation Prize at the World Economic History Congress in Lund!
His award-winning PhD-thesis explores income & wealth before and after the Black Death in the Southern Low Countries & Florence.
👏 Well deserved!
July 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM