Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Mysticisim: anonymous texts The second quarter of the sixteenth century saw the emergence of a short-lived mystical renaissance in the Low Countries duchy of Guelders and in the neighbouring Rhineland. The Saint-Agnes convent in Arnhem w…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Beatrice of Nazareth Beatrice of Nazareth (ca. 1200-1268) was prioress in the Cistercian abbey of Our Lady in Nazareth (near Lier in Brabant). She is well known for her treatise Seven manieren van minne (Seven manners of love) in which s…

Lieke Smits unpaid staff Research Lieke Smits Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise Lieke Smits is a medievalist and art historian, interested in the late medieval religious imagination and devotional practices. She wrote a dissertation on the influence of bridal mysticism on t…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Heritage Day Heritage Day 2023: Beastly! Sunday 23 April 2023 the next edition of Heritage Day will take place. The theme is 'Beestig!' ('Beastly!') The Ruusbroec Institute will participate again in this edition. More information follows…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Dr. Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa. She serves as Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Her re…

Research group for Urban Development search menu search content Varnika Srivastava Varnika finished her Masters in Sustainable Development from KU Leuven in 2021. Following that, she worked in EUCC-D, Rostock, Germany, in coastal management and marine governance and then in Brussels at the Global En…

Research group for Urban Development search menu search content Mohammad Hamed Abdi Mohammad Hamed Abdi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow and senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Hamed obtained his MA (2011-2013) from the University of Kurdistan, Iran, and received…

Science at the Fair search menu search content Team Principal Investigator : Nele Wynants Researchers SciFair and related projects: Gitte Samoy: PhD-research project Spectacular Bodies: Performing Anatomy, Medicine and Anthropology Tim Overkempe: PhD-research project Spectacular Science: Performing …

Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts search menu search content Arts & Media Archaeology Coordinated by Nele Wynants, the Arts & Media Archaeology team within the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA – Antwerp University) investigates the dynamic interplay between theatre, science, and…

Science at the Fair search menu search content Objets Chargés / Charged Objects Mettre en scène l’âme des choses / Performing the Soul of Things Postdoc: Thibaut Rioult | Supervisor: Nele Wynants The aura is the appearance of a distance, however close the thing that calls it forth. In the trace…

Arts & Media Archaeology search menu search content Objets chargés 20 March 2023 - Thibaut Rioult & Kurt Vanhoutte Location: S.S209 ARIA attic, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp Time: 14h30-17h, unless communicated otherwise Target audience: junior academic and artistic researchers Performance …

Science at the Fair search menu search content Publications 2024 Andersen, Eva, and Nele Wynants. “Women at the Wheel: Female Management and Workforce at the Nineteenth-Century Funfair”, Early Popular Visual Culture, 2024, pp. 1-19. doi:10.1080/17460654.2023.2298434. Rioult, Thibaut. « Le Prév…

Centre for the study of bible, culture and modernity search menu search content Lament Klage/Eicha. Lament in Jewish Thought Conference "Klage/Eicha. Lament in Jewish Thought" University of Antwerp, February 6-8, 2013 Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of dest…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Units Unit 1 Ilana Pardes Kingship and Its Discontents: Foundational Scenes in the David Story The story of the foundation of kingship in the Book of Samuel provides a highly complex meditation on royal rule. We will focus on the emotional dimen…

Back to the Future search menu search content Early Modern Motherhood By Sanne Hermans 21/08/2024 Most people worldwide celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. However, exceptions exist, such as in Antwerp, where mothers are honoured on August 15 during the Catholic feast of Assumption D…

Building projects Sports hall and more student housing for a vibrant campus ‘Campus Drie Eiken goes live 24/7’ A sports hall, a new restaurant, more student rooms and studios: all the result of a collaboration between Xior Student Housing, LIFE and UAntwerp, which will make Campus Drie Eiken a v…

Veerle Fraeters full professor Research Veerle Fraeters Research team Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise - Middle Dutch literature: mystical texts, women authors, Hadewijch; alchemical texts - Mysticism: vernacular mysticis…

Arts and Media Archaeology | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Speakers Sarah J. Adams Ghent University & University of Antwerp Sarah J. Adams completed her PhD thesis on antislavery theatre in 2020. Her current postdoctoral project "Blackface Burlesques", funded b…

Political Communication search menu search content Book chapters Book chapters Vandenabeele, D., & Temmerman, M. (2018). Listicles: a journalistic genre for digital media. In Language and the new instant media / Cougnon, Louise-Amélie [edit.]; et al. (pp. 149–158). Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses unive…

Xplore Design Week search menu search content Workshops #1 Meal can Do By Elise Coudré & Mie Goffin What does eating mean to you? Does it simply fulfill your body’s need for nutrition? Or is it a social act that serves to connect you with loved ones? Maybe you eat when feeling certain emotions. P…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Results #2 DRIVOSAUR by Oliver Froome-Lewis & Penélope Plaza "When they woke up, the dinosaur was still there." The Dinosaur, Augusto Monterroso, 1959 We presented our 2022 project 'DRIVOSAUR' to our group high on the top floor of the Ro…

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…

Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts search menu search content News Book launch 'Trust' by Pascal Gielen (05/12/2024) 5 December 2024, Center for the Humanities, New York How can we break through a culture of mistrust? Suspicion regarding our fellow beings, the authorities and enterprises is gro…

Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy search menu search content CSB Working Papers Working Papers 2024 WP 24/06 Haapanala, H. Public spending reforms, austerity and trust in government: a synthetic control analysis of the EU-28 WP 24/05 Mariani, G. & Cantillon, B. - Measuring the impact of demogr…

Political Communication search menu search content Congress papers Congres papers Diedkova, G., & De Landtsheer, C. (2019). Self-presentation and personality branding in Russian politics. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, July 12-15, 2019, Li…