Maite De Beukeleer

@beukeleir

Historian | PhD at KU Leuven 🇧🇪 | Gender, Catholicism, lived religion | Kringwinkelnerd | Long-distance bicycle adventurer 🚲 🔊 About my name:

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Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Jul 14

I proudly invite you to my doctoral defense, on Tuesday 29 September at 13.30h in Leuven, and the festive reception afterwards. 👉 RSVP via mail to make sure there are enough snacks! 👉 Can't join? There will probably be a livestream. 👉 Feel free to share this!

Invitation with text: "You are cordially invited to the doctoral defense of Maite De Beukeleer. Depuis l'usine jusqu'à l'université: auxiliaires de l'Apostolat between Church and world (1917-1974). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dries Bosschaert. Co-supervisor: Dr. Kristien Suenens. Date: 29 September 2026. Time: 13.30h. Venue: Erasmushuis, Justus Lipsius Room, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, Leuven. A reception will follow afterwards. Please confirm your attendance via maite.debeukeleer@kuleuven.be"
Image description: illustration with in the background silhouettes of a factory, church building and the university library building of KU Leuven. In the front, there are five women. On the left, there are three: one carrying a book, one nurse (WWI style uniform) and one holding a jar with a small necklace with a cross. On the right, there are two: one woman dressed in black and one in a blazer. They represent the women that are at the centre of my dissertation (the auxiliaires de l'Apostolat).

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· May 15

Doctoraat ingediend! ... Wat nu?

Pile of paper (my dissertation) on a white table. The title of the dissertation is "depuis l'usine jusqu'à l'université: the auxiliaires de l'apostolat between church and world (1917-1974)".

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Mar 23

Had a lot of fun teaching today about things that I love: women, wikipedia, the library! The students will write a short wikipedia page about a woman who doesn't have a page yet. Check out the IG @religiousherstory to follow their adventures! ✨ @kuleuventheology.bsky.social @3sbos.bsky.social

Powerpoint title slide with text:
Module 5: religious herstory
History of church and theology, contemporary period
23rd of March 2026
Ms. Nyala Nauwelaers & drs. Maite De Beukeleer

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Mar 19

📆 Mark your calendar for the public program of 'Breaking Cultures of Silence', with workshops and an in-depth discussion on bystander behavior and sexual violence in Catholic Church contexts. More info and registration: theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Flyer with practical information about the workshops and lectures. Please click the link in the post for a webpage compatible with text-to-speech.

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Feb 7

Hoera, het nieuwste nummer van Tijd-Schrift viel net in de bus! Deze keer wel zes megaboeiende artikelen over het thema 'thuis'. Bonus: een vrouw op de cover (kunstenares Louise De Hem) én een inleiding van mezelf! ✨

Cover van het tijdschrift Tijd-Schrift met een foto van kunstenares Louise De Hem in haar atelier bij haar thuis (1910, collectie Yper Museum).

Inhoudstafel van Tijd-Schrift vol. 13 nr.3 themanummer 'thuis':
- Torsten Feys: "Hoe het water naar een nieuwe thuis zo diep kwam te staan: de uitwijzing van vreemdelingen tijdens de negentiende eeuw"
- Julie De Groot: "Eigen haard is goud waard: de centrale rol van de keuken in de ruimtelijke en sociale organisatie van woonhuizen in zestiende-eeuws Brugge"
- Bart Nuytinck: "Zoals men zijn bed opmaakt, zo slaapt men: de zoektocht naar stijl in het Belgische privé-interieur (1850-1914)"
- Jan Van Acker: "Eén dag in de Duinenabdij is beter dan duizend in Parijs: de middeleeuwse abdij als thuis: ideaal of werkelijkheid?"
- Els Flour: "Vrouwen en thuis, op gespannen voet? Reflecties binnen de feministische beweging in België in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw"

Foto van de inleiding van het nummer ("Nergens beter dan thuis" geschreven door Maite De Beukeleer). De tekst is te lang om als alt-tekst toe te voegen, maar stuur gerust een berichtje als je het wil lezen.

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Jan 24

I found a book from 2014 on deconnection for 1 euro. Very entertaining: some predictions came true, other times the author was completely wrong (in retrospect). This passage made me close the book for a few minutes, and take a deep breath.

Highlighted text in 'the end of absence' (Michael Harris, 2014): "A large Pew Research Center survey fond that most people believe we'll see a mass adoption of distance learning by 2020, and many are wondering whether that will brush aside the sundappled campuses, shared coffees, and lawn lolling that pre-Internet students considered so essential to their twenty-something lives."

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Dec 4

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Spotify wrapped met de tekst: "september was je piraat talentkonkurrence franse pop-moment"

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Nov 25

Got myself a Dorothy Day graphic novel at #sblaar24 😍

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Nov 25

I share an office with Leen Deflem, but I still learned a lot at #sblaar24 about her important work on bystandership and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Leen Deflem standing in front of an audience with a PowerPoint about sexual abuse in the Flemish Catholic Church.

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Nov 23

In love with the @ucpress.bsky.social badges at #sblaar24 😍

A picture of two badges with the text 'support first gen scholars' and 'scholar activist' from University of California Press

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Nov 23

Unexpectedly found a biblical action figure while strolling in San Diego, and now I'm secretly looking for a way to sneak this into my own research. How cool is this! #sblaar24

Action figure of Peter and a cassette called 'Bible play-along'

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Nov 22

KU Leuven has arrived in San Diego! To fight our jetlag, we had bacon pancakes and went to the beach and a local church. Now ready for #SBLAAR24! ✨

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Nov 21

American airports be like

Magazines with Jesus and Taylor Swift on the cover.

Chocolate bars with a picture of Donald Trump.

Maite De Beukeleer@beukeleir· Nov 16

YESSS! In 2021, Maarten Larmuseau and I wrote "In her footsteps" (in Dutch), at the crossroad of gender, genetics and genealogy. 👇