WP1 'Magic Lantern in the Belgian History of Education and Spiritual Instruction' explores the educational and instructional use of the magic lantern. It looks at its role within the context of pedagogical change in Belgian schools, at the range of purposes it fulfilled in the activities deployed by the Catholic Church, from school teaching to religious propaganda, and, at the other end of the spectrum, at the lantern practices of the Freemasons. The fourth project (creating a link with WP2) situates the lantern within the array of visual teaching aids and the visual media landscape in Belgium. All of the projects in WP1 are interrelated, which will guarantee its coherence.
PhD 1: Education through Images
The Magic Lantern in Belgian schools, 1880-1940
Postdoc 1: The Magic Lantern, the Catholic Church and the Good Citizen
Postdoc 2: The Religious and the Spiritual
The Magic Lantern in the Hands of the Freemasons
Postdoc 3: Between Instruction and Delight
The Magic Lantern in the Late 19th- and Early 20th-century Belgian Visual Media Landscape
