Club past activities

The University Foundation organizes lots of activities for the members of the Club. Below you can see short reviews of some past activities. A more complete list can be seen on the French or Dutch web pages.

 - (Mar 26 2014)

Canceled - University Foundation not accessible due to President Obama's visit.

Evening-debate + walking cocktail at the University Foundation.

Chaired by Prof. Jacques Bourgeois (UGent, College of Europe) 

 - (Mar 13 2014)

Guided visit to the exhibition "Zurburán" followed by a dinner at the University Foundation. 

 - (Feb 11 2014)

Debate about Brussels: How can the capital of a federal state be made financially sustainable?  Berlin and Vienna as models for Brussels? + cocktail

 - (Feb 07 2014)

A l'initiative de la Fondation Boghossian, la célèbre Villa Empain a été entièrement restaurée et a ouvert ses portes au public depuis le 23 avril 2010. Lieu de rencontres et de découvertes, d'émotions partagées et d'émerveillement, la Villa Empain est aussi un remarquable témoin de l'architecture Art -Déco.

 - (Jan 30 2014)

During the new year's cocktail on January 30, 2014, attention was given to the newly published book on the hsitory of the Biermans-Lapôtre Foundation, "sister of the University Foundation in Paris" . The book tells the biography of the founder of the House for students from Belgium and Luxemburg in the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris, as well as the history of the house itself.

 - (Dec 06 2013)

Santa Claus visits the University Foundation.
 

 

Our trip to Turkey

 

The War Heritage Institute and Belspo are organising a conference titled "FAKE, False and Real in Museums, Culture and Society". This activity is supported by the University Foundation.

This congress wants to show and document through lectures, cases and in extenso guided visits the scope of FAKES in heritage and society, from examples in the fields of cultural, historical and artistic heritage conserved in museums and cultural institutions and will treat topics of expertise as Archaeology, Conservation, Archives, Ethnography, Anthropology, History, Paintings and Visual Arts, Palaeontology, Military, Textile and Costume, Fashion, Design, Media & Journalism, Climate Change Research/Data, Scientific Imagery, Heritage Criminology and Law.

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