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Food from Somewhere? Urban Households, Access to Land and Alternative Food Entitlements in the Late Medieval City. University of Antwerp

Tim Soens
Centre for Urban History
Medieval cities were obsessed by food, food supplies and food shortages. Like in most pre-1900 societies, extreme weather conditions, warfare, trade conflicts easily disrupted the precarious food supplies, resulting in recurrent and virulent price spikes and potentially unleashing social unrest. No wonder then, that urban food supplies or 'Feeding the city' has been a prominent topic in economic history for decades, with a particular emphasis on ...

Architect, Engineer or 'Builder'? Design and construction practice in post-independence Pune (India). University of Antwerp

Inge Bertels
Henry van de Velde
In 1996 an Indian architect wrote: 'My architecture is only 2'6" deep [referring to the building facade], since the rest of the plan is determined by the building bylaws and developers.' The architecture of India's booming cities is indeed widely criticised for being mediocre. Yet, it is precisely in large cities that architects have successfully competed with licensed civil engineers and building contractors. The latter used to be more commonly ...

Film, media and nation-building in Flanders. University of Antwerp

Gertjan Willems
Research Centre for Visual Poetics
This research project aims at investigating the relation between media and nation-building in Flanders. The project consists of two parts. First, the project focuses on film and nation-building in Flanders from 1945 until today. Through quantitative and qualitative textual film analyses, the project critically examines the cinematic representation of Flanders and Flemish identities. Second, the project places these findings in their broader ...

Burdened by taxes? Measuring the tax load in Hellenistic Egypt (332-30 BC) KU Leuven

Katelijn Vandorpe
Ancient History, Leuven

The special documentation of Ptolemaic Egypt (thousands of papyri and potsherds containing among other things tax receipts and tax lists) informs us in detail about the complex fiscal system. Hence the country is known for its many taxes and its bureaucracy. But does that imply that the tax burden was high? The project wants to measure, for the first time, the tax burden in Egypt by using a new typology of taxes combined with representative ...

Imagining the landscape: Reinterpreting the mythologies of landscape through the re-appropriation of family archives Hasselt University

Bert WILLEMS
Media, Arts and Design, Stellenbosch University
This study can best be described as a practice based enquiry into the notion of landscape as understood within a cultural context. It is specifically concerned with how the complexities of landscape and identity can be translated into jewellery practices. I am interested in how we impose or project our identity onto the landscape, and how the landscape becomes absorbed in our imaginations in the process. In relation, I particularly reference the ...

Marcel Broodthaers and cinema. University of Antwerp

Steven Jacobs
Research Centre for Visual Poetics
This project focuses on the multiple relations between Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976 ) and cinema. Apart from surveying and analyzing his many films and film installations, it investigates the numerous references Broodthaers made to the medium of film, its technology, its history, and prehistory in both his works and writings. In addition, this project situates Broodthaers's films in the context of contemporaneous trends in ...

Capitalist globalization and 'Small Power' diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire. A comparative history of Belgian, Italian, and U.S. consuls (1823-1912). University of Antwerp

Houssine Alloul
Columbia University, Power in History - Centre for Political History
This project offers a revisionist history of Western diplomacy in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire. Whereas most studies focus on the 'Great Powers,' this research centers on the U.S.A., Belgium and Italy. Analyzing the role of these 'secondary' states' consuls in furthering foreign trade in the Empire will reveal the Ottoman encounter with Western capital to have been far more conflicted and transnational than usually assumed.

Conservation and restoration treatment of a tile panel depicting Christ. University of Antwerp

Stefanie Bauvois
Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES)
This project concerns the treatment of a twelve-part tile panel depicting Christ on the cross (property of STAM, Ghent). The object was in bad condition due to the large number of obsolete restorations, fractures, and missing tiles. In addition to a historical and technical study, the object received treatment to increase its exhibition value. All forms of previous restorations were removed, cracks and fractures stabilized, and gaps were filled ...

Cultural diplomacy avant la lettre? The Circulation of Belgian art in the Southern Cone,1850-1914. KU Leuven

Koenraad Brosens
Art History, Leuven

An overlooked fact in Belgium’s colonial history is that Belgian ambitions reached beyond Africa and Congo. Even less well known is the role played by art in these projects. Between 1850 and 1914 several 'colonies Belges' were established in the Southern cone (Argentine, Chile and Uruguay). These agricultural and industrial settlements were realized by entrepreneurs and private organizations and were motivated by on the one hand imperialist ...