Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences search menu search content Selling the City of Art Urban tourism and the advent of city marketing in Belgium (1880-1980) "Selling the City of Art" places the genesis of urban tourism marketing and branding strategies in a long-term perspective for Belgium between c…

Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content 27 January 2025 from 12:30 until 14:00 (CET) | online ‘They’re selling our oxygen!’ Rumours and conservation in Yangambi Biosphere Reserve Speaker: Fergus O'Leary Simpson Abstract tbc Register here You will receive the link after registra…

INSPIRE | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Programme 2021 INSPIRE summer school offers an intensive 6-days programme on Safety Pharmacology in Drug Development. Built as a highly interactive and multidisciplinary course, this training consists of theoretical lectu…

Silke Geven doctoral scholarship holder Research Silke Geven Research team Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Selling the 'City of Art'. Urban tourism and the advent of city marketing in Belgium (1880-1980). 01/10/2021 - 30/09/2025 Abstract "Selling the City of Art" places the genesis of ur…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content News and calendar Upcoming events Symposium: Learning from Bukavu VLIR-TEAM project “From Handmade Gravel to Handmade Urbanism” Date 19 nov Du pouvoir et de l’exercice du mandat du parlement issu des élections du 5 juin 2025 au Burund…

Arts Symbols of resistance and loss Symbols of resistance and loss War does not only destroy buildings and take lives—it also tries to erase culture, identity, and everyday life. Here you see three powerful photos: the ruins of the National Library, the Markale florist, and a landscape of destroye…

Library search menu search content Donations Would you like to make a material donation to the University of Antwerp Library? Procedure Should you wish to make a material donation, you can contact the University Library. In case the library can accept your donation, we agree on a date for the transf…

Global Engagement search menu search content I Shall not Hate 26 March | 18:30-21:00 Film screening Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish wrote a best-selling book in 2011 about his life in Gaza and the deaths of three of his daughters after an Israeli shell hit their bedroom in 2009, during the fir…

Books and Culture | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Course description Print Culture in 16th-Century Europe In the early decades of the 16th century, the printed book assumed a significant role in disseminating ideas and texts across Europe. The spread of humanis…

Consumer Law Institute search menu search content Publications - Consumer Law Institute Key publications Reinhard Steennot - R. STEENNOT, "Representatieve vorderingen ter bescherming van de collectieve belangen van de consument" in D. BRULOOT en R. STEENNOT (eds.), Economisch Recht. Postuniversitair…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Donations Help to further expand the collection of the Ruusbroec Institute Library Would you like to make a material donation to the Ruusbroec Institute Library? Procedure Should you wish to make a material donation, please contact the R…

Arts Second-hand book sale For Faculty of Arts students Second-hand book sale For Faculty of Arts students On Monday, October 6, you can come to the second-hand book sale for the programmes of the Faculty of Arts. The book market will be open between 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the foyer of Het Brantij…

From handmade gravel to handmade urbanism search menu search content Photo essay See and read the photo essay here Exhibition, Antwerp, 2025 The supply chain of construction materials: 28 pictures & 7 stories In 2024 photographer Robert Carrubba visually documented the supply chain of sand, stones, …

Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences search menu search content Cultural history of heritage In the last few centuries, people of different stripes and feathers – both professional and amateur archaeologists and historians, collectors, connoisseurs, artists and antique dealers, policymakers, and a m…

Research group for Urban Development search menu search content History Founded in 2012 The Research Group for Urban Development is a young and small, yet dynamic research team. In October 2013 the master program of Urbanism and Spatial Planning was fully integrated within the University of Antwerp …

Bachelor of Social-Economic Sciences Quality assurance of the Bachelor of Social-Economic Sciences Quality assurance of the Bachelor of Social-Economic Sciences Quality assurance At the University of Antwerp we ensure the quality of our programmes. Every programme goes through a six-year quality ass…

Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content Seminars From September 2025 onwards, GLAC will host a fifth year of monthly online lunch-hour seminars, providing a platform for both junior and senior researchers to present their research and academic service delivery related to Africa’s G…

Reuse Lab search menu search content ReFix: Extending the product lifetime by repair The right to repair movement has sent out a strong signal over the past four years that has not been ignored by the European Parliament. A proportion of consumers want more control over their product, transparent in…

Emma De Clerck predoc researcher FWO Research Emma De Clerck Research team Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC) Subverting Patriarchy Through Love Stories: Romance Fiction and Anarcho-Feminism in "La Novela Ideal" (1925-1938). 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2026 Abstract The early…

Books and Culture | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Workshops Monday 3 July 2017 9.00h, Agora café Breakfast and registration 10.00–10.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library Welcome and introduction 10.30–12.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library Goran Proot, Typographi…

Onur Kilincceker senior researcher Research Onur Kilincceker Research team Antwerp Systems and software Modelling (AnSyMo) Expertise Areas of his interest are model-based verification & validation of both software & hardware systems, model-based testing, and mutation testing. He is currently working…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Symposium: Learning from Bukavu Wednesday 19 November 2025 | 14:00–18:00 CET | Live and online From Handmade Gravel to Handmade Urbanism “From Handmade Gravel to Handmade Urbanism” is a multidisciplinary project, funded by VLIRUOS and …

Rick Faust postdoc researcher FWO Research Rick Faust Research team Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Centre for Urban History Claiming the Past: Women's Engagement with Historical Objects in Antwerp, c. 1880 – c. 1940. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract The research proposal Claiming the …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Stigmatics Research on stigmatics of the nineteenth and early twentieth century can provide new insights on lived religion, celebrity culture and the cult of living saints, political Catholicisms, and the tensions and collaborations betw…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Institute of Development Policy (IOB) 70 people, one umutima ❤️ IOB Students Compilation 2024-2025 IOB under threat: Flemish government may cut core funding Update November 2025: 💙 Good news: IOB will continue its Master’s programme…