Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content 28 May 2024 from 12:30 until 14:00 (CEST) Reverberating (body) memories of war. Exploring embodied continuities among Burundian ex-combatants Speaker: Eliane Giezendanner The demobilisation of combatants marks a crucial point of transition from…

Tamador Ismail Shellaneh predoc researcher FWO Research Tamador Ismail Shellaneh Research team Development processes, actors and policies The Politics of Development in Occupied Palestine: Neutrality, Neoliberalism, and Colonial Continuities. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract Development is often fra…

Inneke Baatsen Research Manager Urban Studies Institute Research Inneke Baatsen Research team Centre for Urban History Eating with your fingers, dining with your eyes. Table manners in the late mediëval and early modern Low Countries. 01/10/2014 - 30/09/2016 Abstract The challenge we take up in thi…

Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content 16 September 2025 from 12:30 until 14:00 (CEST) | online Book presentation: Modern Rwanda: A Political History Speaker: Filip Reyntjens This is the first of two book presentations taking place in September, launching the GLAC seminar series for…

Panoramic Landscapes: Doctoral Conference Faculty of Arts 2025 search menu search content About the conference A panoramic landscape, from the Greek pan (everything) and horama (view), refers to a vantage point from which the entire research landscape of the Faculty of Arts can be seen in the full 3…

Karen Meynen policy officer Publications Karen Meynen BaCoBeLe: een instrument voor het meten van de basiscompetenties van de beginnende leraar : paper presented at the VELOV/VELON- Congress, Antwerpen, February 6-7th 2012 Source Over het muurtje : bijdragen aan het VELOV-congres- () p. 154 Author(s…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content 2005-2006 Program 1st semester Inaugural lecture: An Old-New Language: Hebrew from 'saba' to 'sababa': October 27th 2005 Prof. Dr. Dorit Ravid - Tel Aviv University Het concept 'joods': Novemer 3th 2005 Prof. dr. Julien Klener Het verlangen naar…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Beatrice of Nazareth Beatrice of Nazareth (ca. 1200-1268) was prioress in the Cistercian abbey of Our Lady in Nazareth (near Lier in Brabant). She is well known for her treatise Seven manieren van minne (Seven manners of love) in which s…

University Foundation for Development Cooperation (USOS) search menu search content Global inequality and authoritarianism: Power concentrated, democracy hollowed Opening session on Tuesday 30 September 2025, from 18.30 to 20.30 at Stadscampus (R.002) Rodestraat 14 Antwerpen Sign up for this session…

University Foundation for Development Cooperation (USOS) search menu search content Colonial legacies, institutional violence, and radical alternatives Tuesday 7 October 2025, from 18.30 to 20.30 at Stadscampus (R.002) Rodestraat 14 Antwerpen Sign up for this session This session explores the intric…

InForMining search menu search content Publications Book Verbrugge, B., & Geenen, S. (Eds.) (2020) Global Gold Production Touching Ground. Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation. London: Palgrave MacMillan. Articles/book chapters Geenen, Sara and Bikubanya, Divin-Luc (2024) Heterog…

Herman Van Goethem prorector Research Herman Van Goethem Research team Government and Law Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance 2030 (YUFE2030). 01/12/2022 - 30/11/2026 Abstract In only 2 years the YUFE Alliance (Young Universities for the Future of Europe) has developed a lead…

Gert Van Hecken associate professor Research Gert Van Hecken Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise My research focuses on the politics of knowledge in conservation and development, on critiques of neoliberal natures and ‘green economy’ proposals, as well as on altern…

Bruno Blondé full professor Research Bruno Blondé Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Historical statistics - Material culture and consumption research - Urban History - Social and economic history - Transportation History - History of the Low Countries - Research Policy Antwerp Inter…

DiplomatiCon-net search menu search content Meet our Sources! What do different Islamic sources tell us about diplomatic contact with al-Faranj?: Four mamlūk-period sources compared Letters from the Mamluk Sultanate in Venice The Birth of the Archive of the Crown of Aragon Italians in Egypt: travel…

Hilde Greefs full professor Research Hilde Greefs Research team Centre for Urban History Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts: the case of Ostend at the Belgian coast (1878-1930). 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This research examines the role of gambling an…

Literature and the Holocaust search menu search content Events Antwerp, 27-29 June 2023 Click here to go to the Antwerp conference webpage. London, 27-29 March 2023 March 27-29, 2023 Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London (UK) Comparative Approaches to 21st-Century Anglophone…

Peter Stabel full professor Research Peter Stabel Research team Centre for Urban History A single pattern? Reassessing the medieval origins and development of the European Marriage Pattern in the County of Flanders (1300-1600). 01/10/2024 - 30/09/2027 Abstract In recent years, the European Marriage …

Bart Eeckhout full professor Research Bart Eeckhout Research team Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC) Expertise 1. Modern literatures in English (emphasis: American 20th-century literature). 2. Modernist poetry: Wallace Stevens. 3. LGBTIQ studies and queer theory, mor…

Lara Schrijver professor Research Lara Schrijver Research team Henry van de Velde Under the radar: self-organized renovation practices among distressed homeowners in Flanders. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract While adequate and affordable housing is a fundamental right, quantitative and qualitative …

Marnix Beyen full professor - vice-dean Research Marnix Beyen Research team Power in History - Centre for Political History Expertise Historical research and advisory functions within the study of political institutions and international relations, as well as that of political theories, ideologies a…

Philippe Meers full professor Research Philippe Meers Research team Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) Expertise My research focuses on historical and contemporary film and media cultures and audiences in Belgium, Europe and Latin America. This entails historical research on film ind…

Centre for Urban History search menu search content Academic Projects - Centre for Urban History Ongoing projects Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts: the case of Ostend at the Belgian coast (1878-1930). 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This research examine…

Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Remote Work and Social Change: An Anthropological Approach (ReWorkChange). 01/05/2025 - 30/04/2030 Abstract Remote work has become normalised as an important aspect of people's lives across different pro…

Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center search menu search content Projects and publications Ongoing projects Remote Work and Social Change: An Anthropological Approach (ReWorkChange). 01/05/2025 - 30/04/2030 Abstract Remote work has become normalised as an important aspect of people's lives acr…