Prof. Dr. Machteld Venken
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| Faculty or Centre | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | ||||
| Department | Contemporary History of Luxembourg | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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| Campus Office | MSH, E04 25-300 | ||||
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Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History and Head of the research unit on Contemporary History of Luxembourg at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). She studied Slavic Languages and Cultures, European Studies and History in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. Venken earned her PhD in 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her habilitation in 2018 at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been a Principal Investigator of eight research projects funded in four European countries. Venken joined the University of Luxembourg in November 2019 after a Visiting Scholarship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg / Institute of Advanced Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and an Attract Brains for Brussels Fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). Her main research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science.
Last updated on: Thursday, 09 February 2023
2023
Native Borderland Children in the Belgian-German and Polish-German Borderlands. Comparing Verification and Nationalisation Narratives After the Second World Warin Wylegała, Anna; Rutar, Sabine; Łukianow, Małgorzata (Eds.) No Neighbors' Lands in Postwar Europe. Vanishing Others (2023)
Keynote: A Gender Perspective on the Self-Mobilisation of Migrants, Their History and MemoryPresentation (2023, March 01)
Panel Organiser: Veterans' Welfare in European Borderlands through the 20th CenturyPresentation (2023, February 16)
Chair: Social Policies and Welfare for Children and Women in European BorderlandsPresentation (2023, February 13)
De strijd om de onderwijstaal in de Oostkantons tijdens het interbellumin WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging (2023), 1
2022
Creating Public History Master Programs: International Guidelines; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
E-print/Working paper (2022)
Report on C²DH Activities in Support of the Ukrainian Research Community; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Report (2022)
Dialoguing Borders in the Post-soviet Space through Citizen Science – Ukrainian Borderland Perspectives;
in Von Löwis, Sabine; Eschment, Beate (Eds.) Post-Soviet Borders. A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands (2022)
Presenter: Arrival Declaration Forms. A New Gateway for Mapping Migration to LuxembourgPresentation (2022, December 16)
Co-Organiser: Borders In Flux and Border Temporalities In and Beyond EuropePresentation (2022, December 15)
Introductory Words of Conference: Borders In Flux and Border Temporalities In and Beyond EuropePresentation (2022, December 15)
Co-Organiser: Voices from the War – Path to Peace: Ukrainian and International InsightsScientific Conference (2022, October 20)
Introductory Words of Conference: Voices from the War – Path to Peace: Ukrainian and international insightsScientific Conference (2022, October 20)
Moderator: Discussion with Christoph Brüll on 'Ostbelgien als popkultureller Zwischenraum?'Presentation (2022, July 14)
Presenter: Return Migration, Welfare, and the French-Luxembourg Borderlands after the First World WarPresentation (2022, June 23)
Organiser of Book Discussion: Peripheries at the Centre Borderland Schooling in Interwar EuropePresentation (2022, June 11)
Presenter of Book: Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar EuropePresentation (2022, June 11)
Presenter: A Critical Reflection on the Digital Visualisation of Migration to the Grand-Duchy of LuxembourgPresentation (2022, May 30)
Presenter: Comparative research on the impact of war on individuals in Luxembourg during WWII and todayPresentation (2022, May 27)
Moderator: Bruggen bouwen tussen academische historici, heemkundigen en erfgoedwerkersPresentation (2022, May 20)
Organiser: Bruggen bouwen tussen academische historici, heemkundigen en erfgoedwerkersPresentation (2022, May 20)
Borderland Child Heterotopias. A Case Study on the Belgian-German Borderlandsin Venken, Machteld; Kaisto, Virpi; Brambilla, Chiara (Eds.) Children, Young People and Borders A Multidisciplinary Outlook (2022)
Borderland Child Heterotopias. A Case Study on the Belgian-German Borderlandsin Venken, Machteld; Kaisto, Virpi; Brambilla, Chiara (Eds.) Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook (2022)
Introduction. The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: border making and its consequencesin Venken, Machteld; Frandsen, Steen Bo (Eds.) Debordering and Rebordering. Central and South-Eastern Europe after the First World War (2022)
Co-Organiser: Workshop on archives for the history of cross-border cooperation in the Greater Region; ;
Presentation (2022, March 24)
Einführung: Diskussion zum Spannungsfeld 'Transregionalität - Zwischenräume';
Presentation (2022, July 13)
Debordering and Rebordering. Central and South-Eastern Europe after the First World War;
Book published by Routledge (2022)
Children, Young People and Borders A Multidisciplinary Outlook; ;
Book published by Routledge (2022)
Introduction - Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook; ;
in Venken, Machteld; Kaisto, Virpi; Brambilla, Chiara (Eds.) Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook (2022)
Arrival Declaration Forms. A New Gateway for Mapping Migration to Luxembourg;
in Frontiers in Human Dynamics (2022)
Presenter: Visualizing the habitation practices of migrants in Dudelange (1924);
Presentation (2022, June 16)
2021
Contributor: Creating Public History Master Programs: International Guidelines; ; ;
Diverse speeches and writings (2021)
1918, 1945, 1989: Childhood in Times of Political Transformation: Part II;
in Journal of Modern European History (2021), 19
1918, 1945, 1989: Childhood in Times of Political Transformation: Part I;
in Journal of Modern European History (2021), 19(2),
Childhood in Times of Political Transformation in the 20th Century: An Introduction;
in Journal of Modern European History (2021), 19(2), 111
Blog: Atouts et faiblesses de Nodegoat dans le traitement et l'analyse des trajectoires migratoires des étrangers au Luxembourg et en France;
Diverse speeches and writings (2021)
Guest Lecture: Peryferia w Centrum: Szkolnictwo pogranicza w międzywojennej EuropiePresentation (2021, December 16)
Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar EuropeScientific Conference (2021, December 03)
Panel Organiser: Book Discussion of 'Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe'Scientific Conference (2021, December 03)
Transforming secondary education in the Belgian–German borderlands (1918–1939)in History of Education (2021)
Presenter: BE/LU/DE/FR Borderlands and Veterans after the First World WarPresentation (2021, November 30)
Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre. History of borderlands as an alternative history of EuropePresentation (2021, November 29)
Presenter: Peripherien im Zentrum. Schulbildung im Grenzland im Europa der ZwischenkriegszeitPresentation (2021, November 24)
Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar EuropePresentation (2021, November 17)
Presenter: Childhood in Times of Political Transformation in the 20th CenturyPresentation (2021, November 11)
Bevrijders aan het werk: Hoe vonden de Polen in Nederland en België hun draai na de oorlog?Presentation (2021, October 28)
Presenter: Jahrmärkte in Grenzräumen. Eine transnationale Geschichte des Luxemburger VergnügungsparksPresentation (2021, October 22)
Presenter: Województwo śląskie inaczej. Peryferie w centrum. Szkolnictwo na peryferiach w międzywojennej EuropiePresentation (2021, September 17)
Keynote: Transnational Families and Childhood throughout the 20th CenturyPresentation (2021, September 03)
Borderland Child Heterotopias. A Case Study on the Belgian-German Borderlandsin Journal of Borderlands Studies (2021), 36(2), 159-180
Chair: Meeting the Editors: De Gruyter Book Series 'Migrations in History'Presentation (2021, July 09)
Chair: Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age: Theories, Concepts and Methods (Reporting on migration)Scientific Conference (2021, July 09)
Panel Organiser: Meeting the Editors: De Gruyter Book Series 'Migrations in History'Scientific Conference (2021, July 09)
Panel Organiser: Political Rupture, Transformation and Childhood/Children in Europe (1914–50)Presentation (2021, June 24)
Presenter: Secondary School Principals. Transformation Practices in Polish Upper Silesia (1919–1939)Presentation (2021, June 24)
Panel Organiser: De-centralized histories of education. Non-binary and postcolonial approaches.Presentation (2021, June 16)
Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar EuropePresentation (2021, June 16)
Keynote Speaker: War Heroes Became Deserters and War Whores Turned into Singing Babushkas: Displaced Persons and Gender in Cold War BelgiumScientific Conference (2021, April 22)
Panel Organiser: Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar EuropeScientific Conference (2021, April 17)
Presenter: Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar EuropeScientific Conference (2021, April 17)
Panel Organizer: Changing Border, Defining Identity. A European Perspective of Shaping Children's Role in Modern SocietyScientific Conference (2021, March 30)
Panel Organiser: Border Making and its Consequences after the First World War: the Habsburg CasePresentation (2021, March 27)
Chair: Abandoned, Orphaned & Displaced: Histories of Children’s Destitution and ReliefPresentation (2021, March 25)
The Western European Borderlands. Overview of Possible Case-StudiesScientific Conference (2021, March 05)
Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe.Book published by Berghahn (2021)
Presenter: Border Making and its Consequences after the First World War: the Habsburg CasePresentation (2021, March)
Presenter: Elite School Principals and Democratic Citizenship in the Belgian-German Borderlands (1919–1939)Scientific Conference (2021, February 26)
Secondary school principals and liminality in Polish Upper Silesia (1919-1939)in Journal of Modern European History (2021), 19(2), 206-221
Discussant of Working Group: Migration Crisis and Human Rights: A Challenge for the EUPresentation (2021, January 18)
Keynote: Migration, Borderlands and International Law in 20th Century Continental Europe.Presentation (2021, January 18)
Introduction. Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook.; ;
in Journal of Borderlands Studies (2021), 36(2), 149-158
Children, Young People, and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook; ;
in Journal of Borderlands Studies (2021), 36(2),
2020
Co-Presenter: 'Talking Borders. From Local Expertise to Global Exchange'. Evidence from a Citizen Science Project.Presentation (2020, December 05)
Les anciens légionnaires et la protection sociale au Luxembourg. Une approche transnationalein Camarda, Sandra; Reinert, Francoise; Sauer, Arnaud; Scuto, Denis (Eds.) Légionnaires. Parcours de guerre et de migrations entre le Luxembourg et la France. (2020)
The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Border Making and its Consequences.in European Review of History (2020), 26(6), 697-708
Special Issue: The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Border Making and its Consequences.;
in European Review of History (2020), 27(6),
2019
Language Learning in the Polish–German and Belgian–German Periphery (1919–1940)Presentation (2019, December 17)
Bordering Brussels. Research Symposium – Open Practices IN EducationPresentation (2019, November 15)
Dzieci w regionach pogranicznych (1919-1940): History Institute, University of Warsaw, 24.10.2019Presentation (2019, October 24)
Native Borderland Children in Europe: comparing verification and nationalization narratives after the Second World WarPresentation (2019, October 24)
The ambiguity of Germanness among borderland youth: A preliminary comparison.Presentation (2019, October 18)
Book Review: Citizenship Education and Global Migration. Implications for Theory Research, and Teaching, James A. Banks, Washington 2017in Journal of Borderlands Studies (2019), 35(1), 165166
Beyond 1989: Childhood and Youth in Times of Political Transformation in the 20th CenturyPresentation (2019, June)
Chair and Commentator: European Union: Immigration and Border ControlScientific Conference (2019, April 25)
Borderland Children Ego Documents from Once Upon a Time: Delusions or Gateways to a New Understanding of the Past?Scientific Conference (2019, April 25)
Did Communist Children’s Television Communicate Universal Values? Representing Borders in the Polish Series Four Tank-Men and a Dogin Blaive, Muriel (Ed.) Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe: Regime Archives and Popular Opinion (2019)
Border-Making and its Consequences: A Global Overview.; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Eurasia Border Review (2019, January), 10(1), 59-69
2018
Keynote Lecture: What is a Borderland Child? Age as a Central Category of Analysis in Border ResearchScientific Conference (2018, July 14)
Book presentation: Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies. A European EncounterScientific Conference (2018, July 11)
Organiser of Plenary Session: Migration, Trafficking and Borders: Contemporary Global ChallengesScientific Conference (2018, July 10)
Discussant of the Panel: Perceptions and Mental maps of the BorderlandsScientific Conference (2018, April 05)
Panel: Citizen Science - Methodologie und Kommunikation in partizipativen ForschungsprojektenPresentation (2018, February 02)
Talking Borders. From Local Expertise to Global Exchangein Heigl, Florian; Ernst, Marlene (Eds.) Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2018. Abstract book (2018, February)
Die vergessene Sicht der Kinder. Grenzregionen als Brennpunkte politischer Spannungenin Lejeune, Carlo; Brüll, Christoph; Quadflieg, Peter (Eds.) Grenzerfahrungen Band 4. Staatenwechsel, Identitätskonflikte, Kriegserfahrungen (1919-1945): Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft (2018)
Rząd belgijski na londyńskim wygnaniu; ;
in Żurawski, Radosław Paweł (Ed.) Struktury władzy na emigracji (2018)
Association for Borderlands Studies 2nd World Conference. Border-Making and its Consequences: Interpreting Evidence from the 'post-Colonial' and 'post-Imperial' 20th Century;
Book published by University of Vienna (2018)
2017
Panel: Re/Bordering Memory: Dynamics and Frictions of Multi-Scala RememberingPresentation (2017, December 15)
Conception and Organisation, 3. Netzwerktreffen für Postdocs der GeschichtswissenschafternScientific Conference (2017, July 14)
Presentation: Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies. A European Encounter.Scientific Conference (2017, April)
Book Review. Kulczycki, John J. Belonging to the Nation. Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands 1939-1951in Slavonic and East European Review (2017), 95
Introduction. Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies. A European Encounter.in Venken, Machteld (Ed.) Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies. An European Encounter. (2017)
Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies. A European EncounterBook published by Peter Lang Edition (2017)
2016
How Universal Was Communist Children’s Television? Representing Borders in the Polish Series Four Tank-Men and a DogPresentation (2016, December 02)
Language Learning in Interwar European Borderland Primary Schools. A Comparison between Polish Upper Silesia and Eupen-MalmedyPresentation (2016, November 14)
Language learning as borderscaping process in interwar European borderlandsPresentation (2016, April 08)
Narrating the Time of Troubles in Polish School History Textbooks (1918–1989)in Cahiers du Monde Russe (2016), 57
2015
Child Forced Labour. An Analysis of Ego Documents Thoughout Timein European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire (2015), 22(2), 368-388
Narrating the Time of Troubles in Polish history schoolbooks (1918-1989)Presentation (2015, March 23)
Як спів може надати сенсу воєнному досвіду. Остарбайтерки в Бельгії повоєнного періодуin Україна модерна (2015)
Organiser of the Conference: Growing Up in 20th Century European BorderlandsPresentation (2015, January)
Presentation: Elite Training in Interwar Europe. A Perspective from the BorderPresentation (2015, January)
Growing up in the shadow of the Second World War: European perspectives;
in European Review of History (2015), 22(2), 199-220
Boso, ale na rowerze. De helaasheid der dingen in Polen;
in Filter: Tijdschrift over Vertalen (2015), 22(3),
2014
Comparing Nationalisation and Elite Training in 20th Century European BorderlandsPresentation (2014, November 20)
Podium Discussant on the Round Table: "Publishing in English: Challenges and Chances"Presentation (2014, November 07)
Presentation of the paper: Comparing Nationalisation and Elite Training in 20th Century European BorderlandsPresentation (2014, September 29)
Nationalization campaigns and teachers' practices in Belgian–German and Polish–German border regions (1945–1956)in Nationalities Papers (2014), 42(2), 223-241
Book review. Menno Spierling and Michael Wintle (eds), European Identity and the Second World Warin Journal of Contemporary History (2014), 49
Herinneren in een (eens) verdeeld Europa. Consistentie en veranderlijkheid in getuigenissen van oud-strijdersin Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire (2014), 92
Editoriaal. Grenzeloos.;
in Tijd-Schrift: Heemkunde en Lokaal-Erfgoedpraktijk in Vlaanderen (2014), 3
Presentation: Historia mówiona w powiecie lublinieckim (województwo katowickie);
Presentation (2014, July 05)
De soldaten van de Eerste Poolse Pantserdivisie. Hun geschiedenis.;
Article for general public (2014)
2013
Żołnierze 1. Dywizji Pancernej gen. Maczka. Doświadczenie i pamięć.; ;
Book published by Replika (2013)
2012
De mobilisatie van Poolse oud-strijders in België, 1947-1972. Een andere visie op Poolse migrantenorganisaties.in Brood and Rozen: Tidschrift voor de Geschiedenis van Sociale Bewegingen (2012), 3
'You still live far from the Motherland, but you are her son, her daughter'. War Memory and Soviet Mental Space (1945-2011)in Mink, Georges; Neumayer, Laure (Eds.) History, Memory and Politics in Central, East and South East Europe (2012)
‘I am also a Foreigner, but with Me it’s Different’: Polish Displaced Persons, War Memory and Ethnification in Belgiumin Kleist, Olaf; Glynn, Irial (Eds.) History, Memory and Migrant Incorporation: How Perceptions of the Past Affect the Reception of Immigrants (2012)
The Communist 'Polonia’ Society and Polish Immigrants in Belgium, 1956-1990in Rygiel, Philippe; Squires, Graham (Eds.) Hearing from Home (2012)
Editoriaal. Erfgoed en migratie.in Tijd-Schrift: Heemkunde en Lokaal-Erfgoedpraktijk in Vlaanderen (2012), 2
2011
Straddling the Iron Curtain? Immigrants, Immigrant Organisations, War MemoriesBook published by Peter Lang Verlag (2011)
Migration and War Memory in a European Perspective? A Case-Study on Displaced Persons in Belgium.in Natolin Research Papers (2011), 5
Międzynarodowe i lokalne próby aktywizacji byłych żołnierzy Pierwszej Polskiej Dywizji Pancernej w Belgii w latach 1947–1970in Pamiec i Sprawiedliwosc (2011), 17
2010
Van onzichtbaar naar zichtbaar: van communistes tot slachtoffers en baboesjka’s. Gewezen Ostarbeiterinnen in Belgiëin Historica - Vereniging voor Vrouwengeschiedenis (2010), 3
Tussen Oost en West. De oorlogsherinneringen van migrantenvrouwen en -mannen tijdens de Koude Oorlogin Wouters, Lisa; Wallemacq, Catherine (Eds.) Aken van het colloquium Genderstudies: een genre apart? Savoirs de genre: quel genre de savoir? (2010)
Wie Singen Kriegserlebnissen Sinn verleihen kann. Ostarbeiterinnen im Belgien der Nachkriegszeitin Boesen, Elisabeth; Lenz, Fabienne (Eds.) Migration et mémoire. Concepts et methods de recherche/ Migration und Erinnerung. Konzepte und Methoden der Forschung (2010)
Polish liberators and Ostarbeiterinnen in Belgium during the Cold War. Mixed marriages and the differences for immigrant men and womenin Yeo, Eileen; Schrover, Marlou (Eds.) Gender, Migration and the Public Sphere, 1850-2005 (2010)
Включенное наблюдение и/или интервью? Собирание коллективных и/или личных воспоминаний? Case-study в Бельгииin Grinchenko, Gelinada; Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia (Eds.) In Search of Voice: Oral History as Theory, Method, and Source (2010)
2009
Bodily Memory: Introducing Immigrant Organisations and the Familyin History of the Family (2009), 14
Review. Dénes: Liberty and the Search for Identity. Liberal Nationalisms and the Legacy of Empiresin European Review (2009), 17
Тілесна пам’ять: імміґрантські організації та родина (вступ до проблеми)in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (2009)
2008
Gemengd huwen, nationaliteit en de verschillen voor mannen en vrouwen. Poolse oudgedienden en Ostarbeiterinnen in België tijdens de K oude Oorlogin Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis (2008), 5
Review. What We Remember. The construction of memory in military discourse by Mariana Achugarin Paradigmatics (2008), 18
2007
Constructie en receptie van het collectieve geheugen bij enkele Poolse gewezen divisiesoldaten in België. De Koude Oorlog in praktijkenin Journal of Belgian History (2007), 3-4
Letters connect people and people? The Communist ‘Polonia’ Society and Polish Immigrants in Belgium, 1956-90in Journal of Intercultural Studies (2007), 7
Konstrukcja i recepcja pamięci zbiorowej wśród polskich dywizjonistów w Belgii. Zimna wojna w praktycein Przeglad Polonijny (2007), 33
2006
The Nationalization of Identities: Ukrainians in Belgium, 1920-1950in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (2006), 31
Geschiedenis van integratie? Een historische kijk op vestigingsprocessen na migratie;
in Bulletin d'Information de l'Association Belge d'Histoire Contemporaine (2006)
2005
