This project reveals, for the first time, relationships which enabled and sustained artists’ work and careers in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Belgium. Structured around three categories of people, it takes a ...read more
PhD-research by Jeroen Reyniers (KIK-IRPA) in the context the PaReS-project, funded by BELSPO Brain 2.0 and lead by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in collaboration with the Universtity of ...read more
Nureni Aremu Bakenne's Ph.D. research is a study of empirical literature and development of newspapers among the Yoruba people of West Africa, with the main focus being Nigeria. Among other things, the ...read more
The project will investigate the phenomenon of transnationalism in the late 1960s and 1970s by focusing on the cultural exchange between Argentina and Belgium and the subsequent cross-border activities of ...read more
The resurgence of identity politics in India has deeply polarised public discourse between a fundamental clash of cultures and a liberal, pluralistic view of society. Behind the present deadlock is ...read more
This project proposes to study city views from Ghent, created between c. 1500 and c. 1900, to trace long-term developments in the representation of the urban built environment. The case ...read more
Networking in the past: the role of social capital in the success of the neoclassical painter and educator François-Joseph Navez (1787-
1869) in nascent Belgiumread more
This FWO senior post-doctoral project aims to investigate contemporary authorship in comics, examining how the concept is understood and focusing on the way comics are created, shared, and read in ...read more
From the late fourteenth century onwards, collegiate chapters in the Meuse-Rhine region started to coordinate their relics displays. Every seven years they put their relics on display in July, thus ...read more
"Moving with Architecture" examines an ecology of architecture and choreography by approaching their relationality in a horizontal way. The project takes the metaphor of weaving to explore how this ecology ...read more