Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt

Speaking

Talks

upcoming

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, Gothenburg. 26 November 2026.

2026

Appearance

Signeersessie 'Wetenschap is geen wedstrijd'

Boektopia Kortrijk. XPo Kortrijk, VBK Hal 1, Kortrijk. 31 October 2026.nl

Keynote

European research funding in historical perspective: from collaboration to competition

Workshop Forskningsfinansieringens effekter. Uppsala University, Uppsala. 11 June 2026.

Lecture

CAT Group: Freedom to research

Zukunftskolleg Jour fixe. Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Konstanz. 21 April 2026. With Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Audrey Harroche, Tobias Dalberg and François van Schalkwyk.

Lecture

Fact-checken ontleed: Feiten controleren volstaat niet

Markant Antwerpen, Antwerp. 18 March 2026.nl

2025

Conference paper

Imagining Europe as a Research Space: From Sectors to Areas, Horizons to Frontiers (1970–2025)

Spatial Imaginations of Europe. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen. 8–9 December 2025.

Seminar

Freedom to research: CAT Group introduction

SCAS Afternoon Tea. Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala. 16 October 2025. With Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Audrey Harroche, Tobias Dalberg and François van Schalkwyk.

Commentary

The Effects of New Research Policies: Thinking Internationally

History of Knowledge Conference. Lund University, Lund. 9 October 2025.

Panel organisation

Knowledge Without Borders: Untangling University Internationalisation, 1945–2000

History of Knowledge Conference. Lund University, Lund. 8 October 2025. With Karl Haikola.

Conference paper

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. With Berber Bevernage and Walderez Ramalho.

Lecture

A ‘funding formula’: Understanding how ERC criteria shape research design

Lund University, Department of Art History, Lund. 13 May 2025.

Lecture

A ‘funding formula’: Understanding how ERC criteria shape research design

Lund University, History Department, Lund. 28 March 2025.

2024

Seminar

The Price of Research

Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, KU Leuven, Leuven. 20 December 2024.

Lecture

Historians and European grants. A critical history of four European funding regimes, and their effects on historical scholarship

ERC Scientific Seminar. European Research Council, Brussels. 17 December 2024.

Lecture

A cultural history of four funding regimes

Cultural History Seminar. Utrecht University, Utrecht. 28 November 2024.

Colloquium

Trust in peers

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

Conference paper

The History of Peer Review in the Humanities (2 panels)

Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, Lund. 9–11 October 2024. With Sjang ten Hagen.

Defence

The Price of History: Historical Research and Changing European Funding Regimes, 1970–today

Saint Peter’s Abbey, Ghent. 11 June 2024.

Conference paper

Responsibility in competitive funding systems: a historian’s view

NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon. 21–24 April 2024.

2023

Panel

Applied History Forum: Weaponized Histories

Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the European Union, Brussels. 16 November 2023. With Laimonas Briedis, Donatas Kupčiūnas, Ivo van de Wijdeven and Bram De Ridder.

Discussion about political uses of the past.© Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the European Union

Workshop

The professionalization of funding. On the birth of the EU funding industry

Leiden University, Institute for History, Leiden. 14 April 2023.

Workshop

Investing in policy. EU funding of ‘regulatory history’ since 1994

Roskilde University, Roskilde. 2 March 2023.

Conference paper

Investing in integration. How the EU funded research into its own history

Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, Amsterdam. 27 January 2023.

Lecture

Europe, funding, and historians: Bringing ‘historiographical infrastructure’ into view

Université Paris-Cité, Paris. 13 January 2023.

2022

Conference paper

Historians tackling ‘societal challenges’: A history of EU funding for policy-oriented historical research

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels. 7–10 September 2022.

Workshop

‘Rigid criteria should not be established’: The assumptions and procedures of European humanities funding between 1975–1995

Serendipities Special Issue Workshop. Online. 18 May 2022.

Conference paper

Placing bets on history: Changing conceptions of valuable historical research in the 21st century

Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Puebla. 26–29 April 2022.

Also pictured are Rafael Verbuyst, Eline Mestdagh and Walderez Ramalho, with whom I worked on Claiming the People's Past.

Panel moderation

Gespreksavond: De Vlaamse Canon

TAPAS / Thinking About the PASt, Instituut voor Publieksgeschiedenis and OSGG, Ghent. 19 April 2022. With Maria Grever, Lin Delcour, Jan Dumolyn, Olga Van Oost, Christophe Busch, Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse and Sarah Leunis.nl

Moderating the joint event by TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt, the Institute for Public History and OSGG/Oud-Studenten Geschiedenis UGent about the Flemish canon, an initiative of the Flemish government.

Workshop

Giving grants, making history: Five decades of European funding for historical research (1970–now)

Leiden University, Institute for History, Leiden. 18 March 2022.

Seminar

Historians between academy and state: The case of European policy-oriented historical research

Sarton Centre for the History of Science Seminar. Sarton Centre for the History of Science, Ghent University, Ghent. 17 February 2022.

Workshop

Policy-oriented history in the 21st century: Trends, characteristics, dilemmas

KU Leuven, Leuven. 21 January 2022.

2021

2019

Conference paper

Institutionalizing an epistemic regime? EU-sponsorship of history, memory, and heritage projects (1967–present)

Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration. European University Institute, Florence. 8–9 September 2019.

Panel

The representation of European history at the House of European History

House of European History, Brussels. 7 September 2019. With Christine Dupont, Bruno De Wever and Alec Vuijlsteke.

2018

Workshop

Medievalists and Modernity. Periodization in the Post-WWII Debate on the Burgundian State

University of Chicago, Chicago. 26 February 2018.