On 12 March 2025, Posthumus fellow Jan Dumoulyn, Professor of History at Ghent University, will deliver the inaugural lecture for the Chaire Francqui 2024-2025 at the University of Namur. The lecture will be titled ‘Een canon, een verhaal en de kritiek – La vulgarisation de l\u2019histoire “nationale” en Belgique et en Flandre’ [‘A canon, a story, and the critique – The vulgarisation of national history in Belgium and in Flanders’].<\/p>\n
The Francqui Chair<\/a>, existing since 1933, is one of the cornerstone initiatives of the Foundation Francqui. This Chair encourages the collaboration and exchanges between (mostly Belgian) Universities. This, in turn, enriches academic environments, advances academic excellence and interdisciplinary research, and also contributes to strengthen the different universities\u2019 reputations. The inaugural lesson of such a cycle is usually the opportunity to bring together all the personalities of the discipline concerned.<\/p>\n The inaugural lecture forms the start of a series of lectures by Professor Dumoulyn at the University of Namur on the theme ‘Histoire urbaine et tensions sociales – Les Pays-Bas m\u00e9ridionaux avant 1302’ [‘Urban history and social tensions – The Southern Netherlands before 1302’]:<\/p>\n To attend the inaugural lecture and the reception afterwards it will be required to register before 1 March 2025<\/strong> via Florence Pierre<\/a> of the University of Namur.<\/p>\n For info on attending the lectures, please visit the webpage of the lecture involved.<\/p>\n\n