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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 ...

European Cinema Audiences. Research Equipment and Interviewer for the Ghent case. Ghent University

Daniël Biltereyst
Department of Communication Sciences

European Cinema Audiences is a comparative cinema heritage project that explores European film
cultures in the post-WWII period. The project, funded by the Arts&Humanities Research Council
(2018-2021) is led by Ghent University, Oxford Brookes University and De Montfort University. It
stands from the British Academy/Leverhulme fund (2015-2017). The applicant Van de Vijver was
granted this Arts&Humanities Research ...

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 ...

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 ...

Timemachine. University of Antwerp

Mike Kestemont
Power in History - Centre for Political History, Centre for Urban History, Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
What if you could travel through time as easily as we travel through space? With the Time Machine consortium, we work towards a large-scale FET Flagship project to build a large-scale simulator capable to map more than 2000 years of European history. This big data of the past, a common resource for the future, will trigger pioneering and momentous cultural, economic and social shifts. Understanding the past undoubtedly is a prerequisite for ...

[Exhibition Project] Walther Vanbeselaere. Collector for the State 1948 - 1973 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Within the series “private collections and exhibitions”, MDD presents in 2017 the modern art collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) which was put together by chief curator Walther Vanbeselaere between 1948 and 1973.

The exhibition will show art by Henri De Braekeleer, James Ensor, Rik Wouters, Jakob Smits, Constant Permeke, Gust De Smet and Jean Brusselmans.