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Understanding the technological and economical history of enigmatic green copper sulfate pigments in Flemish Renaissance art. University of Antwerp

Geert Van der Snickt
Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES)
The beginning of the 16th century marked the start of a prosperous time for Flanders with the flourishing of culture, trade and science directly reflected into the works of art of the Antwerp School. However, the year 1500 does not only mark a period of stylistic revolution, the works of art also change from a technological point of view with Flemish painters experimenting with innovative materials and techniques, an aspect that has remained ...

In search of economical behaviour in times of global budgetary scarcity - Effects of autonomy, control, task and management on overhead costs in public organizations: Theoretical- empirical research using non-obtrusive data and 3 analysis methods. University of Antwerp

Koen Verhoest
Economics, Public Administration & Management
In these times of global financial and fiscal crisis, governments all over the world are looking for ways to reduce the budgetary burden of public organizations and to foster their economical and cost-consciousbehaviour. The budgetary policies of the EU are also a major factor in this. One crucial element is the reduction of overhead costs within public organizations, as this allowsbudgetary savings and the reallocation of relative more ...

A la recherche du temps perdu. A Socio-economic History of Susa during the Heydays of the Sukkalmahat (ca. 1700-1500 BCE) Ghent University

Michel Tanret
Department of Languages and Cultures, Department of Languages and cultures of the Near East and North Africa

The main purpose of this project is the development of an accurate socio-economic history of the Sukkalmah period, based on unpublished tablets from the levels XIII, XIV and XV excavated by Ghirshman in chantier A (Ville Royale, Susa), nowadays kept in the Louvre (Paris) and the National Iranian Museum (Tehran), which is of great importance for the history of the Ancient Near East in general.

Scientific research in economic and city history. University of Antwerp

Bert De Munck
Centre for Urban History
In this book project the social and economic history of artisans is connected to the history of civil society and the urban body politic in the Southern Netherlands. Using the history of professional guilds as a lens, the book develops an entirely new approach to the relationship between the value of labour and skills on the one hand and political subjectivity, voice and participation on the other.

CORN- Comparative Rural History Network University of Antwerp

Tim Soens
Centre for Urban History
The CORN Scientific Network aims to set up in-depth scientific collaboration in the field of comparative rural history in Europe. For several decades, Flanders has occupied a key position in studying and coordinating rural history. As in previous CORN-projects, the present project again focuses on the last millennium: the period between the take-off of the European economy in the classic middle ages and today, linking up with current debates and ...

Dead End: an economic and cultural history of Japan in the age of the great depression 1927 - 1937 (JapanGreatDepression). KU Leuven

Michael Schiltz
Japanese Studies, Leuven
The project presents an economic history and socio-cultural reconstruction of Japan in the age of the great depression; it is an attempt to demonstrate the depression's 'total' or multicontextual implications by outlining different but complimentary views of what was defined as the depression's core problems (and their possible solutions) within different social classes and within different strands of thought. Seen in historical perspective, it ...

An Interdisciplinary History of Prostitution KU Leuven

Maria Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven, Division of Geography and Tourism, Research Centre for Economics (ECON), Brussels Campus

This project involves an interdisciplinary historical analysis of the sex trade. It approaches prostitution from a multi-layered perspective that integrates subaltern history, social geography and economic sociology to situate the shifts of the trade on a double axial system: time and space; and socio-political and economic dimensions. As such, the envisaged research will introduce an unconventional and challenging methodology to the ...

Big Science for a Small Country: The Early History of SCK•CEN 1952-1991 KU Leuven

Geert Vanpaemel
Research Centre for Economics and Corporate Sustainability, Brussels Campus, Cultural History since 1750, Leuven

The research project is on the development of postwar nuclear energy research in the country of Belgium, centered around the doings of Belgium’s major nuclear research center SCK•CEN. The SCK•CEN was founded in 1952, at a time when the postwar reconstruction of European scientific infrastructure took place with active interference from the US. In the project, the history of the SCK•CEN is placed in a context of (inter)national nuclear ...

Omnivore paradoxes in history. Food traditions and novelties in Europe since 1800. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Peter Scholliers
Sociology, Agogics, Germanic Languages, Art Sciences and Archaeology, History, Social-cultural food-research, Political Science
The aim of this project is to investigate to what extent people undergo "major changes", create, or are opposing it. Nutrition is taken as starting point. Various subquestions will be posed, the way in which technology appears in the kitchen; the way people combine time and money in relation to their nutrition; the way in which knowledge about eating culture is transferred through cookbooks.This is an international research, centerpoint is ...