B-MAGIC search menu search content Lecture recordings Gabriela Cruz and Erkki Huhtamo Lecture by Gabriela Cruz Chair: Leen Engelen Magic lantern: Seeing far, seeing self, and other delights in Méliès’s Lanterne Magique, Hoffmann’s Rat Krespel and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann The stupendous …

Centre for Philosophical Psychology search menu search content Reconceiving Perception Reconceiving Perception The aim of this conference is to bring together views on perception of a relational, pragmatic and embodied variety. By comparing and contrasting these different accounts, their strengths a…

University Foundation for Development Cooperation (USOS) search menu search content Who is who? Meet the people behind USOS Staff, students and board members (academic year 2025-26) Staff team Student representative Delicia Kifu - Master's in Social Work As a student representative for USOS, I want …

The Great Corona Study search menu search content Results survey 9 ‘We think others will not abide by the rule of four’ May 12th 2020 The Great Corona study surveyed our attitude about relaxation of the measures We have little faith in others when it comes to respecting the ‘rule of four’. A…

Bonnie Zhixi Chen postdoc researcher FWO Research Bonnie Zhixi Chen Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Visual Catechism and Spiritual Formation: Jesuit Art in the Counter-Reformation Low Countries. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This project explores how Jesuit art functioned as vis…

Nele Bernheim unpaid staff Research Nele Bernheim Research team Power in History - Centre for Political History Couture Norine: The embodiment of th Belgian Avant-Garde, 1918-1952. 01/10/2006 - 30/09/2009 Abstract This project wishes for the first time to offer a thorough study of the couture house …

VAXINFECTIO search menu search content Coronavirus Research News Why COVID-19 has to be taken seriously Geert Molenberghs (UHasselt and KU Leuven), Pierre Van Damme (UAntwerpen), Sarah Vercruysse (UHasselt), Niel Hens (UHasselt and UAntwerpen) - July 2020 It has often been claimed that the infection…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Mobility @ IOB Fieldwork opportunities during your study The Mobility @ IOB programmes covers 2 aspects: Community-based monitoring in Tanzania Dissertation mobility Community-based monitoring in Tanzania Community-Based Monitoring programme…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Framework and methodology - Mind-Bending Grammars Framework and methodology The approach is constructionist (Goldberg 1995, 2006, Croft 2001), seeing grammatical items as form-meaning combinations that are interconnected in a complex associative netwo…

Centre for Philosophical Psychology search menu search content Mental Imagery ERC-funded project final conference (30 - 31 May 2024) About The ERC-funded project on Mental Imagery ' Seeing Things You Don't See: Unifying the Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience of Multimodal Mental Imagery' is com…

Geobiology search menu search content CuriezeNeuzen in the Garden The biggest citizen science research project on heat and drought 'CurieuzeNeuzen in de tuin' is an initiative by the University of Antwerp, De Standaard, in collaboration with Rabobank.be, Orange, Vito, VMM, Departement Enonomie, Wete…

Global Engagement search menu search content Global Pen Friends Engage in a dialogue about a global development topic Join the Global Pen Friends Global Pen Friends is an exchange project between nine universities located in India, Suriname, Nicaragua, Brazil, DR Congo, Morocco and Belgium where stu…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Spaces for Criticism Shifts in Contemporary Art Discourses Is art criticism losing ground to the Internet and its rapidly proliferating art blogs? Do people still consider the art critics employed by newspapers and magazines the most important …

InForMining search menu search content Technological innovation From cyanide revolution to digital revolution Throughout the history of gold mining, technological innovation have allowed miners to increase value-to-volume ratios, and to target deposits that were previously deemed unprofitable. These…

Integrated Training in Dry Eye Disease Drug Development search menu search content The Quinze-Vingts (XV-XX) National Ophthalmology Hospital Founded in 1260 as a hospice for impoverished blind people, it housed 300 beds (15x20) and it based its name on the vigesimal numerical system used at that tim…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Development as a multi-level and multi-actor process Achieving sustainable and just development outcomes requires more than identifying what works and what doesn’t. While evidence-based insights are vital, they offer only part of the pictu…

Elke Van de Casteele unpaid guest prof. - senior researcher Research Elke Van de Casteele Research team Vision lab ARGOS - Augmented Reality-Guided Osteotomies for Surgery. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract In cancer resection, a millimetre can mean the difference between success and complications. O…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Final Conference Programme Preconference + main conference 4-7 May 2022 Registration Registrations are closed. Programme You can find the final programmes below. Download the full Final Conference 5-7 May programme here (pdf - 1,37 MB) Download the full Preconferen…

TransportNET search menu search content Practical Information Venues Each day takes place at a different location. Keep track of the location you need to travel to, for the days that you registered. In general, we open doors at 08:30 with coffee and kick off the programme and 09:00. We aim to close …

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content Research mission Research Mission Mission Statement Visual Poetics is a research group in theatre, film and related artistic media at the University of Antwerp, divided in 4 areas of research: performative, intermedial, artist's and textu…

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology search menu search content Global study highlights deaths from neonatal sepsis & steps to improve treatment Geneva - A global observational study, which involved more than 3,200 newborn babies suffering from sepsis in 19 hospitals in 11 countries, has shown that ma…

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content Mission Statement Mission Statement Visual Poetics is a research group in theatre, film and related artistic media at the University of Antwerp, covering 4 lines of research: performative, intermedial, artist's and textual poetics. Missio…

Centre for Manuscript Genetics search menu search content eXtant Toolkit for Digital Scholarly Editing Tools for Digital Scholarly Editing For CLARIAH-VL, the Flemish contribution to the European research infrastructures DARIAH and CLARIN, the University of Antwerp's research group Centre for Manusc…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Results Results After one year of Mind-Bending Grammars exciting results have already emerged. The case of be going to may serve as an illustration. About 1600 be going to was used literally for going to some place, as in I’m going to Antwerp. A cen…

Global Change Ecology search menu search content CuriezeNeuzen in de Tuin University of Antwerp and 'De Standaard' launch biggest ever citizen science research project on heat and drought. For several years in a row, heat and drought records have followed one another. Our summers are getting hotter …