Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts search menu search content Caring for "strangers"? How (not)? Symposium exploring citizen-organised support structures for undocumented people and refugees 20 October 2025 - Sint Lucas Antwerpen Dimitri van den Wittenboer, PhD researcher (SLARG/ARIA), hosts a …

Science for everyone search menu search content PRESS>SPEAK Science Communication contest for young researchers 2026 winners The annual PRESS>SPEAK competition, with its final on Thursday 12 March, has once again come to a close. Seven young researchers presented their work in a maximum of five minu…

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content New Book: European Film Remakes ed. Gertjan Willems, Eduard Cuelenaere and Stijn Joye Visual Poetics member Gertjan Willems published a new book ‘European Film Remakes’ with Edinburgh University Press. Co-edited with Eduard Cuelenaere…

Research Group MIOS search menu search content ICA 2016 The 65th annual conference of the International Communication Association was organised in Fukuoka, Japan (June 9-13, 2016). The following studies of MIOS researchers were presented at the conference (for more information, please contact the au…

Research Group MIOS search menu search content HEBEN / CBEN (2016) In 2003, the Human Evolution and Behavior Network (HEBEN) was founded to meet the challenges posed by dramatic changes in our understanding of our own species. The Center is dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary research of human …

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Thomas Froy Dwelling in Twentieth Century French and German Jewish Philosophy Thomas Froy’s research is concerned with the notion of dwelling. Focusing on three essential questions – why does dwelling remain necessary?; what is the experienc…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Jewish Modernity in the Feminine Jewish Modernity in the Feminine: Jewish Women Writers and Thinkers in the 20th and 21st Centuries International conference 5-6 December 2018 University of Antwerp - Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13 - 2000 Antwerp Pa…

Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content Gamified education July 2023 in collaboration with Nele Van de Mosselaer ((Tilburg University, previously attached to the Department of Philosophy UAntwerp) Gamification: using video game design to motivate and actively engage stude…

Konrad Rudnicki academic interim staff ZAP - senior researcher - guest prof. external funds Research Konrad Rudnicki Research team Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations and Society (MIOS) Centre for Philosophical Psychology Expertise My main research interest is the application of …

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Veerle Vanden Daelen The Reconstruction of the Antwerp Jewish Community after the Second World War (1944-1960) Veerle Vanden Daelen, De heropbouw van de Joodse gemeenschap in Antwerpen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1944-1960). Lomir vayter zingen z…

Carolyn Declerck full professor Research Carolyn Declerck Research team Management Expertise Cooperation and conflict in social dilemmas, neuroeconomics From self-justification to groupthink: how our economic environment drives motivated memories. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This project invest…

Pascal Gielen full professor Research Pascal Gielen Research team Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) Expertise Cultural sociological research in the field of creative labour, cultural politics, critical theory, civil action and the arts. Sustaining the cultural commons: integrating grass…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content News Aan Tafel: Tussen trauma en troost Over verdriet en verlies 3 oktober 2026 - Kerkschip Sint Jozef, Antwerpen Naar aanleiding van de voorstelling Siddhartha (in een regie van Lisaboa Houbrechts) organiseren Toneelhuis en ARIA een Aan tafel …

Urban Studies Institute search menu search content Plenaries Plenary 01 | Ash Amin Space/Subject: Vernaculars of Endurance in Delhi's Slums and Streets P01 | WEDNESDAY 14 JULY 16:30-17:45 CEST This lecture is on how subjectivity is made in the dwelling of places. When habitat is acknowledged as an i…

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content Blog & Events Visual Poetics Blog Here members of the Research Centre for Visual Poetics and their students blog regularly about research activities, tips for interesting performances, exhibitions and film screenings and other related top…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Workshops #1 Linking Bodies of Water By Maria Mazzanti & Anna Bierler "Even while in constant motion, water is also a planetary archive of meaning and matter. To drink a glass of water is to ingest the ghosts of bodies that haunt that wat…

Wouter Van Dooren professor Research Wouter Van Dooren Research team Politics & Public Governance Expertise Public governance of federal, regional and local public administration. Transport resilience against natural and anthropogenic disruptions (TRANSCEND). 01/01/2027 - 31/12/2030 Abstract The TRA…

Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center search menu search content News ViDi is participating in the Spring 2025 programme of the international online seminar series “Cultura de la Pantalla” Inhabiting uncertainty. A forum on qualitative, quantitative and visual methods Sapienza University o…

Gert Verschraegen professor Research Gert Verschraegen Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC) Expertise Research and policy advice on science-society interactions. Research and policy advice on cultural change and cultural diversity Theory of society The visa pr…

Charlotte De Backer professor Research Charlotte De Backer Research team Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations and Society (MIOS) Expertise I have expertise in conducting interdisciplinary research in the fields of social language (gossip, past research) and food studies (current r…

Vivian Liska emeritus occasional assignment Publications Vivian Liska Monographs, edited books and special issues Liska, Vivian, "Zäsuren: Paul Celans Spätwerk", Caradonna Chiara [edit.], Liska Vivian [edit.], ISBN 978-3-8353-3999-6 - Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag, 2024, 416 p. Liska, Vivian, "Germ…

Research Group MIOS search menu search content Our projects Ongoing projects Sabbatical Leave Karolien Poels. 15/09/2026 - 14/09/2027 Abstract During my sabbatical leave (October 2026 until September 2027) I aim to concentrate on two complementary research lines that jointly consolidate my long-term…

Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Destigmatising social housing through socio-ecological regeneration: leveraging the upcoming renovation wave for just housing transitions. 01/10/2026 - 30/09/2030 Abstract Social housing is wi…