Michel Vermote

Research group(s)

SocialHistory - Social History since 1750

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About

Michel Vermote (°1957) is historian (Ghent University, 1979) and archivist at Amsab – Institute of Social History in Ghent (Belgium).

He is presently working as coordinator of the State subsidized project Archiefbank Vlaanderen: a general register on private archives in Flanders (www.archiefbank.be).

He is lector at the Library School in Ghent and member of a pool of experts on archival issues of the Ministry of Culture. He published on social history and archival issues and was involved in the discovery (1992) and restitution from Moscow (2002) of Belgian archives. He participated in the further research on these issues which resulted in contributions to several conferences and to the publication of articles and studies

Publications

Most recent publications

Vermote, Michel. “Prospects for Further Research on the Fate of Nazi-Looted Book Collections : A Report from Belgium.” Terezín Declaration – Ten Years Later : The Documentation, Identification and Restitution of the Cultural Assets of WWII Victims, Documentation Centre for Property Transferts of Cultural Assets of WWII Victims, 2020, pp. 156–67.
Vermote, Michel. “The Nazi Looting of Books in Belgium and Their Partial Restitution : A Status Quaestionis.” Actes Numériques Du Colloque “Où Sont Les Bibliothèques Spoliées Par Les Nazis ? Tentatives d’identification et de Restitution, Un Chantier En Cours,” Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliiothèques (ENSSIB), 2019.
Weber, Donald, et al. “Digitalisering van de Socialistische Verslagboeken : Een Case-Study.” Huldeboek Guy Vanthemsche : Een Niet-Exhaustieve Academische Biografie, 2018, pp. 129–40.
Vermote, Michel. “Provenance Research and Perseverance: The Testimony of an Archivist.” “The West” Versus “The East” or the United Europe? The Different Conceptions of Provenance Research, Documentation and Identification of Looted Cultural Assets and the Possibilities of the International Co-Operation in Europe and in the World, Abstracts, edited by Mecislav Borak, Documentation Centre for Property Transferts of Cultural Assets of WWII Victims, 2014, pp. 24–37.
Blom, Ron, et al., editors. Macht En Onmacht: De Rol van Archieven in Oorlog En Bij Rechtsherstel. Vol. 14, Stichting Archiefpublicaties, 2014.

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