Projects
The Paper Traces of Reimagined Memories in Children's Literature. University of Antwerp
Preparing a policy paper on the financialiation of the European food sector and the returns of investors,and the speculative practices that had an impact on the surge of consumers' prices. University of Antwerp
SDS/EDTA-treated chromatography paper strips for laboratory confirmation of monkeypox virus in the context of the global mpox epidemiology KU Leuven
Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is the most important human orthopoxvirus which emerged after the global eradication of smallpox. It causes mpox, a disease characterized by a prodromal period followed by the typical maculo-papular rash. The disease was historically endemic in countries of Central and West Africa where we have observed an increasing trend in incidence for the past two decades. Importations of MPX occurred multiple times into USA, UK, ...
Valorisation and preservation of friable medium on paper. Case study on the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB). KU Leuven
This project aims at assessing the fragility of modern works on paper made with friable media (i;e. pastel, charcoal and chalk), at developing a protocol to guarantee their preservation and to train professionals for a better preventive conservation of those types of works. Adopting a holistic approach, it will merge together knowledge from (technical) history of art, conservation and engineering for a better understanding of the condition ...
Sabbatical Baldwin Van Gorp: Old and new horizons: from the ultimate paper on counter-framing to an exploration of graphic medicine KU Leuven
Since the start of my dissertation in 1999, I have continuously researched "framing", that is, the process whereby issues get their meaning, depending on the chosen angle. I have been able to contribute theoretically, methodologically and empirically. For ten years now I have also been researching counter-framing: the process in which issues are "deproblematized", so how they are not presented as a problem. That is an intriguing process about ...
Background paper on drug-related responses addressing the needs of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Europe Ghent University
Following the success of the publication Health and soda! responses to drug problems: a European Guide published in 2017 (see: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/manuals/health-and-socialresponses- to-druq-problems-a-european-guide en ) we wiil be producing an updated and extended version of the guide in 2020. For novel topics or areas in which we had no recent publications to draw on for the 2017 guide we commissioned a number of ...
Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Itinerarium in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Ghent University
Although pilgrimage characterised Christianity from its beginnings, the fourth century saw a dramatic increase of travelling to the Holy Land and Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Rome. This is reflected in a boom of "itineraria": texts describing the routes to and from the holy sites, as well as the places and monuments encountered along the way. These works did not just have a utilitarian function as a travel guide, but were also conceived as ...
Belgian art on paper in a European perspective. 1918-1950 KU Leuven
This project aims to study, disclose and promote Belgian avant-garde 'work on paper' (under which we understand autographic, unique artworks using paper as basic material, such as drawings, water colours, collages, and paper assemblages) between 1918-1950. The project builds on the collection of 'work on paper modern art' of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. For the period ca. 1918 to 1950 the collection houses 2400 individual sheets ...