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In Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages, Roland Betancourt offers a new study that challenges the way that scholars have historically viewed Byzantine society and culture, using the methodology of intersectionality to uncover marginalised identities and recover medieval conversations around sexual and reproductive consent, sexual shaming and bullying, sexual attraction and desire, trans and nonbinary gender identities and the depiction of racialised minorities. This is an exciting and radical new project with an ethical dimension and urgency, writes Meaghan Allen, that seeks to illuminate forgotten figures and lived experiences that ripple through into our present moment.

Abstract: Naar aanleiding van de bestorming van het Capitool door Trump-aanhangers blikken we in deze blogtekst terug op de bestorming van de Belgische Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers op 29 juli 1920, en stellen we ons de vraag hoe beide gebeurtenissen zich tot elkaar verhouden.

Abstract: In this EHRI Document Blog, Veerle Vanden Daelen en Dorien Styven from Kazerne Dossin in Belgium tell the story of the innovative project Left Behind. This project started with Ms. Gaby Morris searching for answers on the fate of her family, deported from Belgium during the Holocaust. This endeavor led her to Kazerne Dossin as her family members were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln in 1942. Micro-historical research further revealed the obligatory slave labour in Organisation Todt labour camps in Northern France to which Ms. Morris’s grandfather had been forced, together with over 2,250 Jewish men from Belgium, including 1,624 fellow-Antwerpians. Without any direct documents from the family itself, it became clear that Ms. Morris’ grandmother was left behind in Antwerp with the youngest children in a most vulnerable situation. Hundreds of other Jewish families from Antwerp found themselves in the same position and little was known about their fate. With the Left Behind project Kazerne Dossin’s research team aims to advance knowledge on this little known aspect of Holocaust history in Belgium and seeks to explore the combination of micro, macro and spatial analysis, incorporating personal stories, analysis of large datasets and analysis of time and space elements on interactive maps into one research project. As such, Left Behind wishes to visualize its findings for both academics and a wide audience. The results of the project will be presented late 2021.

Abstract: In deze blogtekst beschrijf ik hoe de historisch gegroeide politiek-culturele verschillen tussen België en Nederland mee bepaalden hoeveel armslag de Duitse bezetter in beide landen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog kreeg.

Abstract: Naar aanleiding van recent geweld door supporters van de Bosnische voetbalclub Velež Mostar beschrijf ik de complexe politieke geschiedenis van deze club.

Abstract: This essay was invited to reflect on the contemporary resonance of Disney's cultural production. It examines how Disney's utopian ideas and ideologies produce a particular narrative, and how the emancipation of the female protagonist plays out into architectural sceneries. The stories we tell and share influence how we see ourselves, our community and our environment. Yet, how do these stories exactly talk back to us? How desirable are staged narratives and white-washed versions of reality? In our era of individualism, fact-free politics, and the blurring of boundaries to sway citizens, an understanding of the cultural codes and an awareness of these developments is paramount.

Abstract: In this blogpost I want to reflect on the consequences of working with digital archives for heuristics and source criticism, delineating some possible pitfalls and pointing at unexpected opportunities.