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Sabbatical 2018-2019 Prof. Christiane Stallaert. University of Antwerp

Christiane Stallaert
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
My research as a hispanist and anthropologist focuses on social and political themes (nationalism, interethnic and interreligious society, migration, human rights, historical memory), and its interrelations. The cultural border is central to my work, which is inter- and transdisciplinary, at the intersection of Anthropology, Translation Studies and History. Geographically, my research domain is in Spain and Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Andean ...

Belgian cinema from a postcolonial perspective. An interdisciplinary study of interculturality in Belgian cinema from 1960 till now with a focus on Belgian representations of Congo. University of Antwerp

Philippe Meers
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
The main objective of the research project is to analyze Belgian cinema – particularly those films dealing with our former colonies and intercultural films – through the postcolonial lens, and so (1) to dialogically contribute to both cinema studies and postcolonial studies and (2) to contribute to the historiography of Belgian cinema.

City, architecture and colonial space in Matadi en Lubumbashi, Congo. A historical analysis from a translocal perspective Ghent University

Johan Lagae
Department of History, Department of Modern history, Department of Architecture and urban planning

This research will analyze how specific urban spaces in the congolese cities of Matadi and Lubumbashi developed between 1885 and 1960. Physical urban form will be studied on various scales (city, neighbourhood, street, building) from a translocal perspective and be related to an analysis of the impact of migration on the creation of these cities.

The infrastructure of globalisation. The printing press of the Southern netherlands and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire in Peru, 1535-1800. KU Leuven

Werner Thomas
Early Modern History (15th-18th Centuries), Leuven
Framework The contribution of prints to the European expansion and the globalisation of the Early Modern world can hardly be overestimated. Theknowledge of other continents circulated in Europe almost exclusively inthe shape of prints. Through books and engravings Europeans learned about civilisations at the other side of the world that had been visitedonly by a handful of conquerors, colonists and missionaries. Geographical and anthropological ...

Literary figurations of colonial degeneration around 1900 from a comparative postcolonial perspective. KU Leuven

Theodoor D'haen
English Literature, Leuven
This research project focuses on literary figurations of colonial degeneration and the degenerating colonial in European prose texts, seen in relation to public debates about the civilising mission around 1900 in Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and France. On the one hand, this project aims to analyse intersections between colonial literature, historically contingent public debates about the ethics of empire, and the history of the idea of ...

Secularism, colonialism and the Enlightenment: European toleration and the rise of fundamentalism in South Asia Ghent University

Balagangadhara Rao
Department of Comparative sciences of culture

Research hypotheses: the proposed research will build on three hypotheses that resulted from earlier research on the development of the liberal model of secularism and toleration: (1) The basic structure of this model fails to be neutral with regard to all religions, because it is conceptually dependent upon a Protestant framework, namely, the theology of Christian liberty and its U+2018two kingdomsU+2019.(2) The policy of religious ...

Transnationalism in the production of medical knowledge in and concerning the Congo during the colonial period Ghent University

Jean Sebastian Lecocq
Department of History, Department of Modern history

Focusing on sleeping sickness research regarding the Congo (1899-1960), this project investigates the importance of cross-border scientific exchanges and interactions, including those between the Belgian metropole and her colony as well as those between the Belgium/Congo axis and other metropoles, colonies, and intergovernmental institutions, in the production of tropical medical knowledge.