Conférences : Paris-Bruxelles, Bruxelles-Paris. Des affinités historiques

To accompany the Bruxelles 1900 exhibition, the Comité d’histoire de la Ville de Paris offers, until April 2027, a series of lectures on relations, cultural and political exchanges and dialogues between France, Belgium, their capitals and the contemporary world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Friday 27 November, 12h30

At the origins of Belgium: myths and realities by Sébastien Dubois, operational director at the General State Archives, professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)

Friday 4 December, 12h30

Paris, Brussels: two colonial capitals by Emmanuelle Sibeud, professor at Université Paris 8, and Amandine Lauro, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

Friday 26 February 2027, 12h30

The Belgians in Paris in the nineteenth century: a community? by Henk Byls, researcher and lecturer at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences (Belgium)

Friday 12 March 2027, 12h30

A contested admiration. Culinary contacts between Brussels and Paris during the Belle Époque (1895-1914) by Peter Scholliers, professor emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Friday 23 April 2027, 12h30

France-Belgium (1830-1914): a tumultuous relationship by Catherine Lanneau, professor at the University of Liège (Belgium)

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