The research group Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, seeks to cover many aspects of the cultural landscape of the past. It focuses on the history of knowledge and science, historiography and historical culture, cultural infrastructure and cultural tranfers, by considering the various shapes and meanings of scientific and cultural practices.
Cultural history since 1750, campus Kortrijk.
Research in the early modern history section focuses on the Low Countries between 1500 and 1800 in the wider context of Europe (the Habsburg empires) and the world (the Iberian global empires). Methodologically, comlex analytic models are privileged for the study of governmental and organisational structures (Leuven University, the Inquisition, Church-State relations, diplomatic culture), cultural exchange (images and imaginations of overseas ...
The Literary Studies Research Unit, Leuven, consists of the following six research groups:
The Research Group Cultural Studies is one of the six primary research groups that form part of the Research Unit Literary Studies at KU Leuven.
In the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, socio-cultural anthropologists conduct empirically driven investigations on the following themes: (1) "the making of lifeworlds" in the city, in a digitizing world, through migrant projects, through tourism and heritage, through ethical choices, and through popular culture; (2) "the life of relationships": people are embedded in a plurality of relationships, to others, to animals, plants, ...