Organisations
Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The research centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication was set up in 1990 by Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Burgelman at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, within the department of Communication Studies. In 2000, Prof. Dr. Caroline Pauwels became director of the centre. SMIT research focuses on socio-economic and policy aspects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and underlying infrastructures. It combines both ...
Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The research unit Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) offers a platform for fundamental research on the history and theory of art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern period up to the present. It studies not only the artistic and architectural practice, the material object and the spatial environment, but also the broader cultural, historical and societal context, which often relates to current themes ...
Tempus Omnia Revelat Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tempus Omnia Relevat, research unit for the study of time, culture and society, was founded in 1982 by a few researchers at the Centre for Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, as a response to changes in temporal organisation of society. The group is devoted to the social study of time and the development of a methodology adapted to that aim. Over the years the group's interest had broadened, from a cultural study of time to culture ...
Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings brings together researchers in the field of literary, theatre and performance studies. CLIC offers scholars an interdisciplinary network to stimulate research along three key concepts: media, genres and spaces. MEDIA Literature, theatre and performance traditionally belong to specific medial systems. However, these systems often interact in hybrid, intermedial ways. Definitions of ...
Pathophysiology University of Antwerp
Communication Sciences Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The department for Communication Sciences (SCOM) consists of three research units: - Centre for Media Sociology (CeMeSo) - Studies on Media Information and Telecommunication (SMIT) - Centre for Marketing Communication Research (MACO) Those research centres are covering five different, but interrelated research angles:
- Media sociology (CeMeSo);
- Persuasion and Communication (MACO);
- Media- and multimedia policy ...
Cell death signaling (CDS) University of Antwerp
Japanese Studies, Leuven KU Leuven
Research topics of this team are:
- The massive repatriation to North Korea by the Korean minority in Japan (Zainichi)
- The issue of Japanese wives residing in North Korea
- Japanese-North Korean relations and parliamentary diplomacy
- The attitude of Japanese and Zainichi intellectuals towards the Korean peninsula
- The concepts tenkō 転 向 ("ideological conversion") and parrhesia παρρησία ("truth")
Multidimensional signal processing and communication Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The IRIS RESEARCH GROUP was founded in December 21, 1988. Image/video processing and machine vision always have been and remain central research activities. Our motivation is to stay ahead of the obvious R&D tendencies, which drives us towards in depth fundamental research. Our mission statement is to impact on the transformation processes of the knowledge society, which keeps us alert to continuously update our strategic R&D agenda ...