Valorization

• Bambi Ceuppens, Conference paper “The First Congolese Water Colours: African, a Form of African Popular Art, Afropolitan or Afropean?”, presented at ECAS: African, Afropean, Afropolitan, panel “Decolonial approaches in relation to collecting and archiving human remains and (im)material culture pertaining to Sub-Saharan Africans and Afropeans in Europe” (organized by Bambi Ceuppens and Diana Salakheddin), Prague, Czech Republic, 27 June 2025.
• Ophélie Laloy and Diana Salakheddin, Conference paper “Aspects méthodologiques de l’étude des dessins congolais des années 1920 et 1930”, presented at the Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art at the Château de Fontainebleau, France, 7 June 2025.
• Michée Diansana, Conference paper “L’Image d’Albert Lubaki dans la presse européenne de l’entre-deux guerre 1929-1931. Question de sources”, presented at the 6th Congo Research Network conference Congolese Horizons: Weaving Temporalities in Congo Studies, panel “Crafting Memory and Identity Through Material Culture”, Sharjah, UAE, 31 January 2025.
• Diana Salakheddin, Conference paper “Traversing contexts: the multilayered biography of Albert Lubaki”, presented at the 6th Congo Research Network conference Congolese Horizons: Weaving Temporalities in Congo Studies, panel “Crafting Memory and Identity Through Material Culture”, Sharjah, UAE, 31 January 2025.
• Ophélie Laloy, Conference paper “Reassessing Inventory Methods in Western Institutions: Insights from a Contact Zone Collection”, presented at Sensitive, Problematic, Contested. Challenges and opportunities in dealing with cultural heritage, panel “Collecting”, Zurich, Switzerland, 21 November 2024.
• Diana Salakheddin, Conference paper “Writing a biography of a Congolese artist: tracing the history of Albert Lubaki”, presented at the VAD 2024 Conference Reconfigurations in Africa and in African Studies, panel “Methodologies for Histories of the Everyday Africa”, Bayreuth, Germany, 30 September 2024.
• Ophélie Laloy, Conference paper “Déjouer les catégories pour sortir des récits coloniaux : les dessins congolais (1926-1939)”, presented at Sciences, Savoirs et Sociétés : XXIIe Congrès des sociologues de langue française, Ottawa, Canada, 8-12 July 2024.
• Diana Salakheddin and Ophélie Laloy, Conference paper “Rethinking Congolese watercolor painting (1926—1939): contexts and temporalities”, presented at the 36th CIHA World Congress: Matter/Materiality, panel “The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay”, Lyon, France, 27 June 2024.
• Diana Salakheddin, Conference paper “Artworks as objects of the contact zone: rethinking watercolor painting in the Belgian Congo in the 1920s-30s”, presented at the INHA symposium Repenser les récits de l'art depuis l'Afrique (c. 1920-1980). Usages situés de la modernité, Paris, France, 8 December 2023.
• Diana Salakheddin, Conference paper “Retracing the life of Albert Lubaki through the archives. A commentary on sources”, presented at the Congo Research Network PhD Days, Brussels, Belgium, 7 December 2023.
• Ophélie Laloy, “Congolines project at KBR : How to describe the collection of Congolese drawings?”, VUB, VISU PhD Day,
  12 May 2023, KBR, Brussels.
• Diana Salakheddin, Conference paper “Congolese watercolor painters in the context of "local modernity"”, presented at the VI Annual HSE Student Conference "The Silence of Art", panel “The Voice of Silence: silence as an instrument of repression, protection, and resistance”, Moscow, Russia (online), 6 April 2023.

• Public event “Meeting with the researchers of the Congolines project” at the Royal Library of Belgium, 7 December 2024.
• Public event “Rencontre avec les chercheur.e.s du projet Congolines : « Inscribing lines, weaving threads. Congolese colonial paintings as images and objects »” at the Royal Library of Belgium, 25 November 2023.
• KBR at the Brussels Drawing Week, October 5-8, 2023,  Gare Maritime, Brussels: exhibition of 14 coloured drawings (1926-1936) from the KBR collection, Joris Van Grieken (KBR) and Ophélie Laloy (KBR).

We will update this section as soon as the first project-related publications come out!