Projects
Belgian art of the long eighties transitioning from the regional to the international: Aspects of the Ghent art scene, 1976-1992. Ghent University
This project focuses on the Ghent art world of the 1980s, an understudied part of art history. During this period, there was a clear motive towards placing Belgian art on the map. An international narrative became increasingly dominant in catalogues, the popular press and politics, becoming a societal phenomenon. Ghent played a decisive role in this process, for example by establishing the first Belgian museum for contemporary art, with Jan ...
Altered in style. A socio-cultural study of the 1550 repaint campaign of the Ghent Altarpiece Ghent University
The Ghent Altarpiece, a late-medieval painting by the Van Eyck brothers, was repainted in 1550. The current conservation treatment of the altarpiece indicates that extensive representational modifications were made, which literally changed the artwork’s original style. The aim of this project is to explain why these stylistic modifications took place in 1550 despite the religious artwork's cult status and the Van Eyck brothers' fame. This ...
Cinema Located. A study on place, space and social experience of cinema in Ghent (1982-2012) Ghent University
The multiplex celebrated its 30th anniversary, yet very little empirical research has been done on the place, space and experience of cinema culture since its emergence (Hanson, 2007; Klinger, 2006; Acland, 2003). The workings of Hollywood, cross-cultural reception and the Americanisation of the cinema culture in non-American domains have been subject to many critiques (Krämer, 2011; Trumpbour, 2002; Vasey, 1997; Thompson, 1985; Guback, ...
The transformation of urban political elites. The case of sixteenth-century Ghent. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
European Cinema Audiences. Research Equipment and Interviewer for the Ghent case. Ghent University
European Cinema Audiences is a comparative cinema heritage project that explores European film
cultures in the post-WWII period. The project, funded by the Arts&Humanities Research Council
(2018-2021) is led by Ghent University, Oxford Brookes University and De Montfort University. It
stands from the British Academy/Leverhulme fund (2015-2017).
The fungal herbarium of Ghent University: a valuable source of information hidden in boxes Ghent University
Mycologists are now routinely analyzing fungal communities directly from the soil using
metagenomics. In order to link these environmental sequences to actual species, a solid taxonomical
framework is needed with which sequence data can be compared. As most ecosystems worldwide,
tropical and subtropical African forests are depending on ectomycorrhizal associations, often with
fungi that form mushrooms. This project ...
Urban community under high pressure: an inquiry into social relations and political culture during the Ghent U+2018Calvinist RepublicU+2019 (1577-1584) Ghent University
The aim of this research is to understand how urban culture in the Southern Low Countries changed during the Reformation. One case will be the object of an in-depth study, namely that of the Ghent Calvinist Republic (1577-1584).