Bénédicte Rochet

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Faculté de philosophie et lettres - Conseiller/Conseillère académique
Département d'histoire - Directeur/Directrice de département - COPE - Membre

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Domains of expertise

  • History of cinema (newsreels, Belgian cinema and world conflicts).
  • First and Second World Wars.
  • Visual history in the 20th century.
  • Public history (documentaries, web-documentaries, exhibitions, etc.).
  • Judicial personnel in the 19th century.

External responsibilities

  • Member of the Belgium WWII support committee (since 2021)
  • Lecturer in History of Silent Cinema, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (2014-15 / 2015-16).
  • Lecturer in Visual Culture, Master in Transmedia Architecture, Heaj-UNamur-Imep (2016-2022)
  • Member of the Council of Private Archive Centres of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (2007-2018).
  • Member of the monitoring committee of the ‘Oral Memory’ platform for the development of oral sources in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (2016-2018).
  • Co-Chair of the FNRS contact group ‘Images and History: production, circulation and communication’.
  • Member of Kinétraces, an international and interdisciplinary association for research into film heritage (since 2013).
  • Expert on the monitoring committee of the BRAIN-MADDLAIN project, Modernize Access to Digital Data in Libraries and Archives Identifying Needs (2015-2017). 800x600
  • Member of the steering committee of the EURO-HISMEDIA research network (European Media History Research Network) (since 2002).

Degrees

PhD in History (UNamur 2014)

Degree in History (UCL 1994-1998)
Agrégation in Higher Secondary Education (UCL 1999)
DES in European Studies (IEE-UCL 1998-1999)

2025-2026

2024-2025

2023-2024

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