Upcoming Activities

25 March 2024

Seminar on AI: L’Intelligence Artificielle amie ou ennemie? Les enjeux d’une révolution technologique

Seminar on AI: L’Intelligence Artificielle amie ou ennemie? Les enjeux d’une révolution technologique | Artificiële Intelligentie vriend of vijand? De uitdagingen van een technologische revolutie. Seminar organised by the Arenberg Foundation and Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert. Welcome: 14h30 - Seminar: 15h - Reception: 18h.

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Conferences & seminars Seminar

Past Activities

12–14 October 2023

XIth Arenberg Conference for History: Blood and Virtue. Nobility of Blood and Nobilities of soul in the Middle Ages

XIth Arenberg Conference for History: Blood and Virtue. Nobility of Blood and Nobilities of soul in the Middle Ages - The existence, in the Middle Ages, of a social category with a high situation because of its birth is commonplace. As early as the 7th century, Isidore of Seville played on notus (adjectivized past participle of gnosco, “know”) and its derivatives notabilis and nobilis, and defined the noble as “Someone whose name and family are known”. However, while this quality is inherited, the social pre-eminence of the nobility is also justified by the outstanding qualities and virtues of its members.

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Conferences & seminars Arenberg Conference for History

13 December 2022

Dreams of Egypt in the Arenberg gardens and collections from the 17th to the 19th century - Lecture by Mrs Marie-Cécile Bruwier, Egyptologist

Lecture by Mrs Marie-Cécile Bruwier, Egyptologist, honorary director of the Royal Museum of Mariemont, organised in Enghien under the auspices of the Cercle royal archéologique d'Enghien.

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Conferences & seminars

7 November 2022

Pleidooi voor een cultureel Marshall plan voor Europa - Un plaidoyer pour un plan Marshall culturel Européen

On Monday 7 November 2022 at 7 pm Rotary Gent invites the Duke of Arenberg to come and speak about his ideas on the future of Europe. The speech will be bilingual Dutch/French.

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Conferences & seminars Seminar

30 June – 2 July 2022

Xème Conférence d’Arenberg pour l’Histoire: Les noblesses transnationales, XIIIe-XXe siècle

En étudiant les pratiques et les marqueurs de la "transnationalité", cette rencontre a pour objectif de questionner les processus de formation et de persistance de noblesses inscrites dans des espaces pluriels qui se distingueraient des noblesses exclusivement "nationales". L’inscription transnationale entraîne-t-elle une modification des comportements, des habitudes, des manières de penser?

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Conferences & seminars Arenberg Conference for History

28 March 2022

Séminaire: relation russo-belge et russo-européenne: quel avenir dans le monde qui change?

Because of the political situation, we are forced to cancel the conference about Russia on March, 28th with the hope to present again this topic in the future in a spirit of openness.

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Conferences & seminars Seminar