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Wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de moord op Julien Lahaut. KU Leuven
The assassination of Julien Lahaut is a recurrent theme in Belgian politics. On August 18, 1950, the president of the Communist Party was shot in his house in Seraing. A week before, he had interrupted the ceremony that made Baudouin the Royal Prince by shouting Vive la République. The inquiry into Lahauts murder lasted for 20 years and did not come up with conclusive answers to a number of outstanding questions. Since 1970 commentators have ...
The function and meaning of music in the formation and evolution of a LGB subculture in the city of Antwerp (1960-2010) University of Antwerp
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC)
This project aims to better understand the function of music in processes of subcultural identification, focusing on the LGB (Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual) community in Antwerp. It is known that music plays an important role in the formation and self-definition of minorities and subcultures, but its function in the LGB community has not been extensively researched. Moreover, Flemish LGB culture and its history have hardly been academically ...
The scientification of the bureau. Science, technology and ideology at the office in belgium, the Netherlands and France (1918-1968). KU Leuven
In this research project, the scientification of office labor between 1918 and 1968 will be focused upon. Although the social formation of a specific workforce at the office (the employee) has been studied in depth, the remarkable scientification of office labor itself still needs to be fully grasped. In this research project, processes of rationalization that are sometimes believed to be confined to industrial contexts, will be studied within ...
'A modern mental epidemic'. Marian apparitions in Belgium in the 1930s. KU Leuven
This project intends to take on Robert Orsis challenge to historians and focus on encounters with the supernatural, rather than writing them out of history or reducing them to their socio-political impact. Focusing on a Belgian series of Marian apparitions in the nineteen thirties, this research project aims not only at shedding some new light on the interpretation of these religious experiences, but also at gaining insight into the devotional ...
Disability and the Great War: the re-education of disabled soldiers in Belgium, 1914-1940. KU Leuven
Education, Culture and Society, History of Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kulak Kortrijk Campus
Inspired by the upcoming remembrance ceremonies which will be held to the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the First World War in 2014-2018 we would like to carry out a historical-pedagogical research project with regard to the rehabilitation of Belgian disabled soldiers of the Great War between 1914 and 1940. First of all, we would like to examine how the re-education of Belgian maimed soldiers took shape. By means of two study periods ...
Diplomacy in times of democratisation. An enquiry into the culture of the Belgian diplomatic community, 1910-1940. University of Antwerp
The project 'Diplomacy in times of democratization. An enquiry into the culture of the Belgian diplomatic community, 1910-1940' aims at measuring the influence of the process of democratization on the evolution of diplomatic culture during the interwar period. 'Diplomatic culture' will be studied from a political-cultural perspective, considering elements of self-representation and behaviour of the Belgian diplomats as a social entity and ...
Universalism vs. particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations. Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch between cooperation and competition (1978-2008). University of Antwerp
At the beginning of the 21st century the number of non-governmental organizations participating in the transnational civil society of human rights is almost uncountable. One could applaud the proliferation of human rights organizations (HROs) but one should also wonder why so many exist. Does this reflect an effective division of labour or does it indicate particularistic interests? This project, which dovetails with the very recent growth of ...
Beliefs and practices of prospective history teachers on the relationship between past and present in history education. KU Leuven
Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, Early Modern History (15th-18th Centuries), Leuven, Instructional Psychology and Technology
Contemporary Western European societies hold differing and partially conflicting expectations towards history education. History education is considered as an autonomous introduction into culture, as a contribution to the formation of critical and democratic cosmopolitans and as an introduction into the scientific discipline of history. Behind these views there are not only differring expectations towards the education in general, but also ...
A Republic of Comrades. Elite and elitenetworks in Belgian interwar politics (1918-1940) KU Leuven
This thesis explores the existence and modus operandi of interwar elite networks and the ways they have (or tried to) influenced Belgian politics in the period between the two world wars. Traditionally, these two decades are associated with the breakthrough of democratization in the twenties, the success of the New Order movements in the thirties and political instability throughout the entire period. At the same time, researchers ...