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Research Outputs

Publications

Vander Hulst, Reinout. (2026). “Military Justice in the Field: Law, Order and Violence in the Prosecutors’ Archives of Belgian Colonial Troops at ‘War’” in Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2025.2598629

Van Eeckenrode, Marie. (2026). “Pour une épistémologie des archives de l’État indépendant du Congo (1876-2026)” in Rossinelli, F., Vandersmissen, J., & Katambu Bulambo, A. (Eds.). De la Conférence géographique de Bruxelles à l’État indépendant du Congo (1876-1908): regards nouveaux 150 ans après les origines, 347-366. Neuchâtel, Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses.

Henriet, Benoît. (2025). “Transgressive Economy: Revolt, Repurposing and Redistribution in 1931 Belgian Congo,” in F. Bernault, B. Henriet, & E. Kalema (Eds.) Textures of Power. Central and Equatorial Africa in the Long 20th Century, 111-125. Leuven, Leuven University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.23338326.10 [Written on the basis of e.g. courts-martial trials of the Kwango revolt]

Lauro, Amandine. (2025). “Writing Transimperial Histories from/of the Belgian Congo: Reflections on a Historiography in the Making” in BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review140(4), 28-54. https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.22337

Vander Hulst, Reinout & De Ganck, Tommy, Inventaire des archives du Ministère des Colonies et successeurs en droit : Administration d’Afrique : Conseil de guerre d’appel de Buta (1924-1933), série Inventaires Archives générales du royaume 2 – dépôt Joseph Cuvelier n° 71, publication n° 6483, Archives générales du Royaume, Bruxelles, 2024.

Vander Hulst, Reinout & De Ganck, Tommy, Inventaire des archives du Ministère des Colonies et successeurs en droit : Administration d’Afrique : Conseil de guerre d’appel de Boma (1897-1931), série Inventaires Archives générales du royaume 2 – dépôt Joseph Cuvelier n° 64, publication n° 6442, Archives générales du Royaume, Bruxelles, 2024.

Henriet, Benoît, Lauro, Amandine & Juste, Renaud. (2023). “Archives of Military Courts in Colonial Congo: New Sources for the History of Violence and Agency in Central Africa,” in History in Africa. https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2023.9

De Ganck, Tommy & Rovetta, Ornella. (2022). Inventaire des archives du Ministère des Colonies et successeurs en droit. Administration d’Afrique. Conseil de guerre de Léopoldville, 1891-1956, Archives générales du Royaume 2 – Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier (Inventaire 43), Bruxelles, 115 p. [Includes an introduction retracing the legal, jurisdictionnal and archival history of military justice in the Belgian Congo.]

Lauro, Amandine. (2026, forthcoming). “The Belgian Empire and Its Legacies: Colonial Silences and Postcolonial Dynamics of Queer (In)Visibility in Central Africa,” in S. Corrêa, G. Gomes Da Costa Santos, & M. Waites (Eds.) Colonialisms and Queer Politics: Sexualities, Genders and Unsettling Colonialities. Oxford, Oxford University Press (contract signed, submitted, under review). [Written on the basis of e.g. courts-martial trials for sexual violence]

Presentations

Vander Hulst, Reinout. 2026 (January 23). “Missionaries and Violence“, presented at KADOC Seminar Series Religion, Culture, and Society in Leuven, session “Missionaries in Congo: Current Historical Research” (23/12/2026: Catholic University of Leuven).

Lauro, Amandine. 2025 (December 13). “Violences sexuelles et justice militaire au Congo : une analyse historique (Congo belge, 1908-1960)“, at the Congrès de la Chaire Mukwege (11-13/12/2025: Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus Erasme).

Bouvart, Aurélie. 2025 (June 25). “”The defendant was consumed by jealousy”: “Crime of Passion” and Colonial Justice in the Belgian Congo (1908-1960)”, Paper presented at the European Conference on African Studies in Prague, session “Imagined Criminals: Building Criminal Identities in Colonial and Contemporary Africa (Part 1/2)” (25/6/2025).

Vander Hulst, Reinout. 2024 (October 1). “Navigating sensitive archives: reflections on archival practices in the Digicoljust project”, Paper presented at the Conference of the Association of African Studies in Germany, session “Colonial Archives and Violence: Accessibility, Digitization and Ethical Challenges” (30/09-02/10/2024: University of Bayreuth).

Vander Hulst, Reinout. 2023 (November 20). “The DIGICOLJUST project: general presentation”, Project presentation for a delegation of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), AGR 2- Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier (20/11/2023).

Lauro, Amandine. 2023 (June 28). “Archives of Military Courts in Colonial Congo: New Sources for the History of Violence and Agency in Central Africa”, Talk presentend at the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials – ICWC Seminar Series (28/06/2023: University of Marburg).

Henriet, Benoît. 2023 (May 31). “Shifts in Values: Revolt, Punishment and (Re)Distribution in 1931 Belgian Congo”, Paper presented in the double panel ‘Structures of Violence: punishment in Africa from the colonial era to the present’, 9th European Conference on African Studies (31/05-3/06/2023: University of Cologne).

Lauro, Amandine. 2023 (March 27). “Guerre 1940-1945: penser les résistances dans le monde colonial”, Conference in the series « RésitanceS » of the Centre d’Action Laïque de Charleroi (2023-03-27: CAL Charleroi).

De Ganck, Tommy. 2022 (September 17-18), Presentation of the archives of colonial military courts and of DIGICOLJUST’s for the Brussels’ Heritage Days. State Archives 2- Joseph Cuvelier. (17-18/09/2022: State Archives of Belgium).

Henriet, Benoît & Lauro, Amandine. 2022 (September 13). “Military Courts in the Belgian Congo: Colonial Violence, Subaltern Agency and the Challenges of “Shared” Archival Heritage”, Paper presented at the Congo Research Network Congress (13-15/09/2022: Università Degli Studi Di Milano).

Lauro, Amandine. 2022 (July 30). “Colonial Violence, Subaltern Agency and Shared Archival Heritage: Towards a History of Military Courts and their Archives in the Belgian Congo”, Paper presented at the international conference “Military Justice in the Modern Era, 1850-1945” (28-30/07/2022: Freie Universität Berlin).

Henriet, Benoît & Lauro Amandine. 2022 (May 23). “Audition/Hoorzitting La Chambre/De Kamer Commission spéciale “Passé colonial”/Bijzondere commissie “Koloniaal verleden” – “Rôle de l’Etat”/ “Rol van de Staat” (General Presentation that included a short presentation of DIGICOLJUST), Belgian Federal Parliament.

De Ganck, Tommy. 2022 (May 3), “Koloniaal verleden/Passé colonial : Colonial Violence, Subaltern Agency and Shared Archival Heritage, a Digital Platform of Colonial Judiciary Sources”, Conference “Wetenschappelijke lente/Printemps scientifique 2022”. (03/05/2022 : AfricaMuseum Tervuren).

Henriet, Benoît & Lauro, Amandine. 2022 (March 25). “Les archives de la justice militaire coloniale, un patrimoine archivistique en partage entre Bruxelles et Kinshasa”, Presentation/Speech for the official remise of a digital copy of the archives of the military tribunal of Leopoldville to the National Archives of DRC, Workshop “Journée d’études Kinshasa-Bruxelles” (25/03/2022 : École Nationale d’Administration de Kinshasa).

Rovetta, Ornella. 2021 (December 6). “Using Archives to Support Mobilizations for the Recognition of Belgium’s Colonial Past”, Guest Lecture for the Seminar “Reparations for Slavery and Colonization : Contemporary Movement for Justice”, MIT OpenCourseWare, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml4vCR0_4io.

Henriet, Benoît & Lauro, Amandine. 2021 (October 29). “Archives numérisées, patrimoine partagé : le projet DIGICOLJUST”, Paper presented at the international conference “Journées de l’Histoire: Re-penser l’enseignement de l’histoire du continent africain et de la RDC” (29-30/10/2021: Université de Kinshasa).

De Ganck, Tommy. 2021 (September). “Le projet DIGICOLJUST – Colonial Violence, Subaltern Agency and Shared Archival Heritage”, Video/Web presentation, State Archives of Belgium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT7thnNIl_w