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

The Comité d'histoire de la Ville de Paris is joining forces with the Petit Palais, Paris Museum of Fine Arts, for a series of lectures on the relations between Paris and Brussels.

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

Friday 27 November, 12.30pm

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

Friday 4 December, 12.30pm

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

Friday 26 February 2027, 12.30pm

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

Friday 12 March 2027, 12.30pm

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

Friday 23 April 2027, 12.30pm

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

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