Projects
Short and long term solutions for postharvest decay of apple by Botrytis cinerea. KU Leuven
Apple (Malus x domestica) is a seasonal fruit that can be harvested in autumn. To provide consumers with a year round supply of high quality apples the fruit is stored with controlled atmosphere at low temperature. During storage fungal-caused decay may occur, resulting in losses. These losses are currently controlled through chemical pesticides, but increasing public concerns about safety for people and environment are ...
The diaspora kino-eye: A multi-methodological research project on diaspora film policies and representations in Flanders (2002-2021). University of Antwerp
Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti: A Comparative Study of Experimental Art Documentaries in Belgium and Italy (1940-1965) Ghent University
Focusing on European art documentaries made in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, this research
project aims at investigating two of its key figures, who were both leading art historians, critics,
and filmmakers: Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. Both Haesaerts and Ragghianti
attempted to translate the disciplines of art history and art criticism into film, using various
cinematic devices to analyse the ...
The diaspora kino-eye: A multi-methodological research project on diaspora film policies and representations in Flanders (2002-2021). University of Antwerp
The diaspora kino-eye: A multi-methodological research project on diaspora film policies and representations in Flanders (2002-2021) Ghent University
Over the last decades a major upswing of diaspora cinema in Europe took place. In Flanders, this flux of diaspora filmmaking is specifically relevant as cross-cultural identities have assumed a prominent role in contemporary cinematic narratives. The importance of diaspora cinema is that it is considered to be one of those symbolic sites of struggles within a multicultural society that can help in the deconstruction of Eurocentric and ...
Filming memory / Filming my family. Intergenerational trauma and prosthetic memory of WWII in post-Soviet society KU Leuven
This PhD research in the arts analyses the role of documentary cinema in the creation of 'prosthetic memories': the ways in which persons 'remember' events they have not personally experienced. My research focuses on prosthetic memories of WWII in Post-Soviet society through cinema and proposes a novel theoretical and practical framework for researching prosthetic memory through first- person documentaries (films in which the filmmaker's ...
Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens (MeCETES) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Since 1992, the role of culture and the creative industries within Europe has gained in importance, and the EU has developed increasingly comprehensive cultural and media policies as part of the European project. Yet ...
Thinking past pride, creating beside shame: “hshouma” in visual artists's works from the Moroccan diaspora in Belgium and France. KU Leuven
“Hshem!” (“be ashamed!”) is a recurring keyword in traditional Moroccan education, it is an advice, a limit socially and politically well implemented in Moroccan society. The proposed project is particularly timely as, over the past ten years, the themes of shame and national identity have been central in Moroccan diasporic cinema and photography in Europe. An important wave of these diasporic artists has adopted visual arts to expose the ...