Marc Bekaert guest professor Research Marc Bekaert Research team Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) Expertise Film semiotics, based on Peircean semiotics and philosophy. Visual communication. Film narratology, based on Peircean semiotics. Film history. The influence of film technolog…

Muriel De Boeck researcher Research Muriel De Boeck Research team Product development The semiotics of physical human augmentation. Contextual empowerment of human-augmentation products. 01/10/2020 - 30/09/2024 Abstract The objective of this study is to develop a research-based framework for the dev…

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content Textual poetics Textual Poetics The subfield Textual Poetics encompasses research into the manifold and changing artistic and discursive attitudes towards text, language and narrativity. Inquiries ranging under this rubric proceed in seve…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Iconography, Visual Strategies and Narratives WP3 'Iconography, Visual Strategies and Narratives' will focus on the way slides, slide series and lantern readings function with regard to their iconographic, representational and discursive modes and potential to supp…

Tom Van Hout unpaid staff Publications Tom Van Hout Subverting EU legal concepts Source Journal of language & politics - ISSN 1569-2159-23:5 (2024) p. 747-769 Author(s) Michiel Luining, Tom Van Hout Citation link People on the move: how museums de-marginalize migration Source Social semiotics - ISSN…

Marnix Beyen full professor - vice-dean About Marnix Beyen Marnix Beyen Contact Stadscampus Show email address Tel. 032654302,+3232654906 Sint-Jacobsmarkt 13 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Having gradually moved from cultural to political history, one crucial concept on the crossroads between these fields has …

Katrijn Bekers predoc researcher FWO Research Katrijn Bekers Research team Research Centre for Visual Poetics From Hashtag to Hollywood: Fourth-Wave Feminism and the Representation of Women in Biopics. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Given the US film industry's central position in the emergence of…

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content Courses Theatergeschiedenis This course will expose the students to survey of plays, theatre artists, and theatrical theory from Antiquity (Greeks, Romans, and Asian rituals) through the 17th century from a global perspective. Readings in…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Scope The magic lantern The magic lantern was one of the first visual mass media. It was used for visual communication in education, religion and politics, but also in science and art. Scientists and entertainers, teachers and priests, political movements and organ…

Literary and Theatrical Studies search menu search content Story-telling and Resilience: The Function of Literature in the Overcoming of Trauma Pre-conference workshop 4th September, 2017, Budapest, Hungary Academia Europaea 29th Annual Conference 2017 Convenor and chair: Susana Onega Speakers Svend…

Arts & Media Archaeology search menu search content In-between Imagination and Politics: Writing the History of Circus 14 October 2024 - Franziska Trapp & Gwendolien Sabbe Sign up Location: S.S209 ARIA attic, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp Time: 15h-17h, unless communicated otherwise Target a…

Literature and the Holocaust search menu search content Invited Experts Robert Eaglestone Robert Eaglestone is professor of contemporary literature and thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He works on contemporary literature and literary theory, contemporary philosophy and on Holocaust a…

Antwerp Media in Society Centre search menu search content Expertise Brajato Nicola My main expertise can be identified in the critical understanding of the socio-cultural and political relationship between fashion and masculinities. Thus, my academic work develops at the intersection of three speci…

Kurt Vanhoutte professor Research Kurt Vanhoutte Research team Research Centre for Visual Poetics Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) Physiognomic culture in popular performance: on the use of stereo-'types' in fin-de-siècle Brussels. 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Human zoo exhibition…

Nicola Brajato postdoc researcher FWO Research Nicola Brajato Research team Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC) Expertise My main expertise can be identified in the critical understanding of the socio-cultural and political relationship between fashion and masculinities. Thus, my academic work d…

Luc Van Den Dries emeritus occasional assignment Research Luc Van Den Dries Research team Research Centre for Visual Poetics Expertise - Research of the representation of the body and of the developments in contemporary performance arts.Most important field of interest is the so-called post dramatic…

Philippe Meers full professor Research Philippe Meers Research team Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) Expertise My research focuses on historical and contemporary film and media cultures and audiences in Belgium, Europe and Latin America. This entails historical research on film ind…

Centre for the study of bible, culture and modernity search menu search content Prophetic Imaginings Prophetic Imaginings. Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics Workshop "Prophetic Imaginings. Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics" Stanford University, May 9-10, 2016 The workshop, organized in collaboration w…

Xplore Design Week search menu search content Workshop facilitators 14-18 February 2022 #1 June Trondsen, Casper Boks & Dirk Van Rooy June Kyong Trondsen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Design at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has a master’s degree in Industrial D…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Biographies #1 María Mazzanti & Anna Bierler María Mazzanti is an architect educator and researcher based in Amsterdam with a particular interest in critical spatial practices, feminist geography and publishing. She is an editor in Fail…

Gertjan Willems associate professor Research Gertjan Willems Research team Research Centre for Visual Poetics Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) Expertise His research interests are aimed at a critical analysis of film, television, radio, literature and other forms of media and cultu…

Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects The role of European cultural institutions in the circulation of European cinema and the development of Chilean film culture (1955-1989) (ECICH). 01/03/2024 - 28/02/2026 Abstract This project studies the…

Walter Geerts emeritus occasional assignment Research Walter Geerts Research team Expertise French and Italian culture and politics. Intertextuality in Primo Levi. 01/01/2003 - 31/12/2006 Abstract This project intends to establish an overview, as complete as possible, of the intertextuality in Primo…

Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center search menu search content Projects and publications Ongoing projects The role of European cultural institutions in the circulation of European cinema and the development of Chilean film culture (1955-1989) (ECICH). 01/03/2024 - 28/02/2026 Abstract This pr…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Biographies #1 Patricia Guaita & Raffael Baur Patricia Guaita and Raffael Baur co-initiated several research and teaching projects that explore the relationship of craft and fabrication to space, tectonics and the human being. They met at…