Speaking

Upcoming

Organising with Sjang ten Hagen, Joris Vandendriessche, Els Minne, “Histories of scholarly evaluation in the sciences and humanities, 1700-2000”, workshop HSHH Network-Global Academies KU Leuven, 27-29 September 2026.

Lecture with Hampus Östh Gustaffson, Audrey Harroche, Tobias Dalberg and François van Schalkwyk, “CAT Group: Freedom to research,” Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 19-23 October 2026.

Lecture “How has ERC Funding Transformed the Way We Ask Questions and Conduct Research? The Remaking of the Discipline of History, 2007-2025”, University of Gothenburg, November 2026.

2026

Panel moderation “Kennis, kunst en wetenschap onder druk: Academische vrijheid als strijdtoneel”, Jonge Academie, Brussel, 3 maart 2026.

Lecture “Fact-checken ontleed: Feiten controleren volstaat niet”, Markant Antwerpen, 18 maart 2026.

Lecture with Hampus Östh Gustaffson, Audrey Harroche, Tobias Dalberg and François van Schalkwyk, “CAT Group: Freedom to research,” ZukunfstKolleg Konstanz, 21 April 2026.

Keynote (panel) “European research funding in historical perspective: from collaboration to competition”, Workshop Forskningsfinansieringens effekter, Uppsala University, 11 June 2026.

2025

Seminar “Peer Review in the Humanities: Evaluative Practices from the 19th to the 21st Century”, with Isak Hammar and Hampus Östh Gustaffson, Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, 17 March 2025.

Lecture “A ‘funding formula’: Understanding how ERC criteria shape research design”, Lund University, History Department, 28 March 2025.

Lecture “A ‘funding formula’: Understanding how ERC criteria shape research design”, Lund University, Department of Art History, 13 May 2025.

Seminar with Johan Östling, “The Europeanisation of the Universities”, Centre for European Studies x History of Ideas, University of Göthenburg, 21 May 2025.

Seminar with Johan Östling, Karl Haikola, and Maria Simonsen, “Mapping the Europeanisation of the universities: The Trandformation of Knowledge Institutions, c. 1980-1995”, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, 28 May 2025.

Conference keynote with Berber Bevernage, “State-Sponsored History and Historiographical Authority”, Yerevan State University, 9-11 June 2025.

Conference presentation with Berber Bevernage and Walderez Ramalho, “Populist Historical Reason”, Re- | Visions of history in right-wing populism and the far right. European and global perspectives, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin, 8-10 September 2025.

Conference presentation, “How Europeanisation worked: Constructing a European Corporate Identity at Ghent University, 1970-2000”, Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945, University of Hannover, 10-12 September 2025.

Panel organisation “Knowledge Without Borders: Untangling University Internationalisation, 1945-2000”, with Karl Haikola, History of Knowledge Conference, Lund University, 8 October 2025.

Commentary “The Effects of New Research Policies: Thinking Internationally”, History of Knowledge Conference, Lund University, 9 October 2025.

SCAS Afternoon Tea with Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Audrey Harroche, Tobias Dalberg and François Van Schalkwyck “Freedom to research: CAT Group introduction”, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala, 16 October 2025.

Conference presentation “Imagining Europe as a Research Space: From Sectors to Areas, Horizons to Frontiers (1970-2025)”, Spatial Imaginations of Europe, University of Copenhagen, 8-9 December 2025.

  • Panel moderation “Nationale en transnationale geschiedenis”, with Wouter Smets, Stefanie Van Brussel, and Vincent Stuers, Groot Geschiedenisdebat Universiteit Antwerpen, 9 February 2024.

    Panelist “Bezet bedrijf: oorlogsgeschiedenis van de NMBS”, book presentation with discussion about public uses of the past, with Stefanie D’Hose, Nico Wouters, Koen Aerts, and Dimitri Roden, Krook Gent, 21 February 2024.

    Lecture “Feiten controleren volstaat niet”, Lembeke, Markant vzw, 22 February 2024.

    Lecture “Feiten controleren volstaat niet”, Lievegem, Markant vzw, 20 March 2024.

    Conference presentation “Responsibility in competitive funding systems: a historian’s view”, NOVA University Lisbon, 21-24 April 2024.

    Dissertation defense “The Price of History: Historical Research and Changing European Funding Regimes, 1970-today”, Saint-Peter’s Abbey, Ghent, 11 June 2024.

    Conference presentation “The History of Peer Review in the Humanities (2 panels)”, with Sjang ten Hagen, Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, Lund, 9-11 October 2024.

    Colloquium “Trust in peers”, with Floris Cohen and Tessa van Charldorp, Trust in Science Colloquium, Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University, 19 November 2024.

    Lecture “A cultural history of four funding regimes”, Cultural History Seminar, Utrecht University, 28 November 2024.

    Lecture “Historians and European grants. A critical history of four European funding regimes, and their effects on historical scholarship”, ERC Scientific Seminar, Brussels, 17 December 2024.

    Seminar “The Price of Research”, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, KU Leuven, 20 December 2024.

  • Lecture “Europe, funding, and historians: Bringing 'historiographical infrastructure' into view”, Université Paris-Cité, 13 January 2023.

    Conference presentation “Investing in integration. How the EU funded research into its own history”, Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, 27 January 2023.

    Workshop “Investing in policy. EU funding of “regulatory history” since 1994”, Roskilde University, 2 March 2023.

    Workshop “The professionalization of funding. On the birth of the EU funding industry”,Leiden University, Institute for History, 14 April 2023.

    Panelist (with Eline Mestdagh) “Gespreksavond: Geschiedenis en populisme”, with Koen Aerts, Susan Legêne, Sarah Keymeulen, and Pieter Lagrou, organized by TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt and OSGG, Ghent, 19 October 2023.

    Panelist at “Applied History Forum: Weaponized Histories”, with Laimonas Briedis, Donatas Kupčiūnas, Ivo van de Wijdeven and Bram De Ridder, Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the European Union, 16 November 2023.

    Conference presentation “Historicizing research funding, “excellence”, and its meaning”, Brussels, 23-24 November 2023.

  • Workshop “Policy-oriented history in the 21st century: Trends, characteristics, dilemma’s”, University of Leuven, 21 January.

    Conference presentation “Historians tackling “societal challenges”: A history of EU funding for policy-oriented historical research”, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 7-10 September.

    Workshop (online) “Rigid criteria should not be established”: The assumptions and procedures of European humanities funding between 1975-1995”, Serendipities Special Issue Workshop, 18 May.

    Appearance in podcast reportage on the Canon van Vlaanderen, made by Elias Degruyter, Ghent, 19 April.

    Panel moderation “Gespreksavond: De Vlaamse Canon”, with Maria Grever, Lin Delcour, Jan Dumolyn, Olga Van Oost, Christophe Busch, Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, and Sarah Leunis, organized by TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt, Instituut voor Publieksgeschiedenis, and OSGG, Ghent, 19 April.

    Conference presentation “Placing bets on history: Changing conceptions of valuable historical research in the 21st century”, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), 26-29 April.

    Workshop “Giving grants, making history: Five decades of European funding for historical research (1970-now)”, Leiden University, Institute for History, 18 March.

    Lecture “Historians between academy and state: The case of European policy-oriented historical research”, Sarton Centre for the History of Science, Ghent University, 17 February.

  • Lecture “Anti-relativisme gerelativeerd: een korte geschiedenis van anti-relativisme in de EU”, Permanente Vorming Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschappen, Ghent University, 20 April.

  • Panelist at “The representation of European History at the House of European History”, with Christine Dupont, Bruno De Wever and Alec Vuijlsteke, House of European History, Brussels, 7 September.

    Conference presentation “Institutionalizing an epistemic regime? EU-Sponsorship of history, memory, and heritage projects (1967- present)”, European University Institute Florence, 8-9 September.

  • Workshop “Medievalists and Modernity. Periodization in the Post-WWII Debate on the Burgundian State”, University of Chicago, 26 February.

2018-2024

Joint keynote with Berber Bevernage at the First International Conference of the Laboratory for Philosophy and Theory of History at Yerevan State University, June 2025.

Discussion about political uses of the past at the Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU, 16 November 2023 (© Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the European Union).

Moderating a joint event by TAPAS/Thinking About the PAST, the Institute for Public History (Ghent University) and OSGG/Oud-Studenten Geschiedenis UGent about the Flemish canon, an initiative of the Flemish government, 19 April 2022.

Enjoying the International Network for the Theory of History 3rd Biannual Conference, in Puebla, Mexico, 26-29 April 2022. Also pictured are Rafael Verbuyst, Eline Mestdagh, and Walderez Ramalho, with whom I worked on this book.