Projects
Ideology of Heritage, Museum, Cultural Politics, and Construction of National Identity in Finland and Japan. University of Antwerp
Contested Heritage. A multilevel analysis of the securitization of heritage and its challenges for EU and UN actorness (COHERE) KU Leuven
Negotiating solidarity. The shared history and heritage of Belgian civil society and postwar Muslim migration KU Leuven
This project, intertwining historical and anthropological approaches, critically analyzes and evaluates the interactions of multifaceted postwar Flemish/Belgian civil society with the country's Muslim communities of Moroccan and Turkish descent. An in-depth understanding of the multifold exchanges emerging since the 1960s between the country’s social movements and organizations, NGOs, religious institutes… and the growing communities of ...
The Handmaiden’s Balancing Act? The (Re)Presentation of East European Literatures in Weltliteraturgeschichte and Younger ‘World Literary History’ Ghent University
In 1877 the Austro-Hungarian Hugó Meltzl warned his colleagues: “As every unbiased man of letters knows, modern literary history, as generally practiced today, is nothing but an ancilla historiae politicae [‘handmaiden of political history’]”. At the time, Europe was dominated by the five powers of the ‘Vienna System’ (after the 1815 Congress of Vienna): England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia, whose respective ‘national’ languages, ...
Archaeological Synthesis Research 2019 - Conflict Archeology of the Second World War in Flanders Ghent University
There has been tremendous progress in the field since the early 21st century
of the conflict archeology of the First World War (Van Hollebeeke,
Stichelbaut et al. 2014) various initiatives of the Flemish Government (de Meyer
and Demeyere 2006, Dewilde 2006, Dewilde, de Meyer et al. 2007, Dewilde,
Verboven et al. 2016), a growing academic interest in ...
ENVIROMICS, environment toxicology and technology for a durable world. Development and application of diagnostic instruments for industry and policy. University of Antwerp
Project: 'Foro universal de Culturas in Valparaiso'. KU Leuven
The operation of GUM - Ghent University Museum & Botanical Garden as a nationally classified museum for the policy period 2024-2028 - operating year 2028. Ghent University
The Cultural Heritage Decree of the Flemish Community includes several instruments, among which is the Quality Label for Collection Managing Institutions. GUM & Plantentuin received this recognition two years after opening, in July 2022. This Quality Label is important because it grants collection managing organizations access to both project and operational subsidies for carrying out their (heritage) functions.
The ...