Dealing with the history of the art documentary, this research project focuses on its “Golden Age,” which can be situated in the 1940s and 1950s in countries such as France, ...read more
PhD in Arts project, research is conducted within the research group S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) and within the University College Ghent - Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK). ...read more
This project aims to analyze representations of individual and collective trauma in comics through a comparative, cross-cultural study. Although Art Spiegelman's Maus has greatly contributed towards the development of trauma ...read more
Before the International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed, the American literary marketplace was saturated with unauthorized reprints of British texts. Neither British nor American authors had any legal claim ...read more
This project will systematically relate scripting of rituals of conflict, reconciliation and social integration to societal developments in the Central Medieval West (tenth-twelfth centuries). So far, scholarship has been determined ...read more
This project will offer the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the use of speech acts, ritual acts and spatial arrangements in the construction of episcopal authority in the ‘long ...read more
The aim of this project is an analysis of how media, “multimedia” in particular, functioned in a sixteenth-century local context. By doing so this project will offer a methodologically innovative ...read more
The so-called city symphony, also often described as city film or city poem, is a film genre that had its heydays in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining elements of documentary, ...read more
The postdoc research project "The body and its double" concerns the politics of the body in 21st century media society relating to the issues of post-humanism, performing identities, presence and ...read more
The aim of this project is to study the ethical and political presuppositions of public forms of historical representation. I will do this by focusing on three important ways in ...read more