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Turning superstition into science. Atmospheric tides science and the transformation of astrology in Enlightenment Continental Europe Ghent University

Steven Vanden Broecke
Department of History

The period 1700-1840 witnessed the flowering of a new U+2018atmospheric tidesU+2019 science. The basic
assumption of this science was that Sun and Moon not only generate significant tidal effects in the
earthU+2019s seas, but in its atmosphere as well. These atmospheric tides (henceforth AT) were held
responsible for important weather changes, as well as for a variety of health issues in the human
body (e.g. insanity, ...

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 ...

Honour Besieged? Marks of Nobility and the (Re)making of Social Order in the Habsburg Netherlands (1570-1650). University of Antwerp

Luc Duerloo
Power in History - Centre for Political History
The Dutch Revolt that afflicted the Habsburg Netherlands engendered a sense of social dislocation. From the late sixteenth century onwards, the alleged confusion of noble and bourgeois identities prompted a princely regulation of status display. These legal prescriptions imbued certain exterior signs with an exclusive 'noble' honour that confined their public appearance. Departing from a dynamic interplay between princely interventionism and ...

Hunting for Ambition: The Royal Hunt and the Representation of Power at the Court of Savoy. University of Antwerp

Luc Duerloo
Power in History - Centre for Political History
Influenced by anthropology and the 'performative turn' in social sciences, historians and political analysts alike have begun to reconsider notions of 'authority'. Sovereignty is now understood to be a continuous activity of claim making. As a result, the on-going performance of power can be studied through seemingly trivial activities. If any of these deserves to be studied from that perspective, it is most certainly the princely hunt. It would ...

The pre-industrial transformation of boys' labour. From learning through apprenticeships to being employed as an unskilled, cheap workforce? (1550 – 1800). University of Antwerp

Bert De Munck
Centre for Urban History
This project will challenge and add to the knowledge of child labour by determining how the logics behind sending children to the labour market in the Southern Netherlands (more specifically Ghent and Antwerp) changed between the 16th and late 18th century. In doing so, it will determine how mentalities and practises on children's education and labour transformed in urban societies and will shed light on children of learning and working age as a ...

Agriculture, wage labour and household economies in eighteenthcentury Flanders: a regional and integrated analysis. Ghent University

Thijs Lambrecht
Department of History

During the eighteenth century the Flemish countryside experienced profound structural change.

Agricultural production increased and diversified, population rose by some 60 per cent and

agricultural holdings were increasingly subdivided. This project views this changes through the lens

of the labour market for agricultural labour. The first objective of this project consists of a

reconstruction of the labour demand of ...

On the Trail of Power: The Royal Hunt and the Performance of Sovereignty. University of Antwerp

Luc Duerloo
Power in History - Centre for Political History
Influenced by anthropology and the 'performative turn' in social sciences, historians and political analysts alike have begun to reconsider notions of 'authority'. Sovereignty is now understood to be a continuous activity of claim making. As a result, the on-going performance of power can be studied through seemingly trivial activities. If any of these deserves to be studied from that perspective, it is most certainly the princely hunt. It would ...

Fashioning 'old and new'. Secondary markets, commodity value conventions and the dawn of consumer societies in Western Europe (18th-19th centuries) University of Antwerp

Bruno Blondé
Centre for Urban History
Present-day policies to reinvigorate secondary markets and to reinforce the circular economy show a belief in societal progress through technological innovation and supply-side engineering. However, what is crucial in understanding our current 'throwaway'-attitudes – and any current-day policies shaping these – is a better knowledge of historically and culturally constructed demand-side issues, i.e. the formation of long-running consumer habits ...

How to stimulate reflection on the disciplinary future self through internships: challenges and opportunities. KU Leuven

Liesbet Heyvaert
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Kulak Kortrijk Campus

Disciplinaire persoonsvorming via stages en praktijkervaringen: opleidingsspecifieke en facultaire uitdagingen en kansen

In het onderwijsbeleidsplan van de KU Leuven (2014-2017) wordt sterk de nadruk gelegd op het belang van het voortdurend aanspreken en ter discussie stellen van het disciplinaire future self van studenten en op de bijdrage die de universiteit op die manier kan leveren tot hun ...

In Search of the Subaltern Voice: A Conflict History of Subaltern Experiences and Subjectivity in Rural Guatemala KU Leuven

Maria Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven
The overall goal of this research project is to provide a subaltern history of revolutionary Latin America in the second half of the 20th century. By integrating an oral history methodology into the theoretical framework of Subaltern Studies, this research advances the position of the subaltern as a historical actor in his own right. Consequentially, this research aims to methodologically renew the subaltern field by shifting the focus from a ...