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Researcher

Koen Aerts

Awards & Distinctions

Results : ALL ( 11 )

As Administrative supervisor

12 September 2024 → 21 September 2025

A social history of the largest Belgian army ever during the Phoney War (1939-1940)

Doctoral researcher: Robin Groeseneken

17 January 2020 → 21 September 2025

Doctoral project Jan Peumans

Doctoral researcher: Jan Peumans

14 December 2020 → 21 September 2025

Doctoral project Joris Van Doorsselaere

Doctoral researcher: Joris Van Doorsselaere

13 December 2021 → 21 September 2025

Resurrection of party politics Flemish nationalism in West Flanders (1945-1970)

Doctoral researcher: Toon Van Moerbeke

31 January 2024 → 21 September 2025

Silent heritage. Asbestos objects in collections.

Doctoral researcher: Doris Blancquaert

16 November 2023 → 21 September 2025

The Belgian past in present journalism. How the Dutch- and the French-speaking public broadcaster (re)construct collective memories about the colonial and war history (2002-present).

Doctoral researcher: Manon Mortier

As Promotor

01 March 2024 → 29 February 2028

Heritage education as didactic method for controversial (and sensitive) topics in secondary education in Flanders

Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

01 November 2023 → 31 October 2027

The Belgian past in present journalism. How the Dutch- and the French-speaking public broadcaster (re)construct collective memories about the colonial and war history (2002-present).

Fellow: Manon Mortier

Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

As Copromotor

01 October 2018 → 30 September 2023

Resisting resistance: WWII resistance movements as milieux de mémoire in post-war Belgium (1945-present)

Fellow: Babette Weyns

Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

As Fellow

01 February 2020 → 30 June 2030

People@War: A Social History of the Second World War and its Remembrance in Belgium

Fellows: Dimitri Roden, Koen Aerts

Funding: Federal funding: various

01 October 2011 → 30 September 2017

The collective memory of collaborators in Belgium's post-war society: a socio-political history (1944-1970)

Fellow: Koen Aerts

Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund