Organisations
Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The joint research group THALIA aims at collective, intellectual exchange in regard to intermedial constellations of theatre, text and performance, along the research lines Text/Theatricality, Performativity, Dramaturgy and (Inter)Mediality.
Theatricality and Reality Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Theatricality and Reality Association Working Group (THEA) wants to combine the scientific and artistic research expertise in theater and theater science within the University Association Brussels and explicitly aims to build bridges between artistic practice, artistic research and scientific research in the field of theater , performance and theatricality. Both contemporary artistic practices and historical forms of theatricality are ...
Research Centre for Visual Poetics University of Antwerp
Centre for Literature and Culture-Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies offers an interdisciplinary forum for specialists in literature, theatre, dance, and film, whether doctoral students, researchers, assistants and teaching staff. Through seminars, guest lectures, conferences, and publications advanced research is conducted across the boundaries of individual disciplines, critical methods, genres, cultures and languages. Past initiatives focussed on the novelist ...
German Literature, Leuven KU Leuven
Research topics of this research unit are:
• German-language literature by female authors (18th-21st century)
• Weimarer Klassik
• literary theory and gender
• historiography of literature, literature as cultural heritage
• literature and politics
* literature and philosophy
• literature of minorities in Germany and Europe
* German theater (18-21th century)
* the heritage of Romanticism and ...
Department of French Ghent University
Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
DESIRE performs critical research into the political-democratic nature of societal processes and their discursive-significatory dimensions.
Crucial within DESIRE's remit is the study of the logics of power, how power strategies are developed and resisted and how signification intervenes into these power logics. DESIRE's areas of interest thus include the many societal fields where meaning is produced and circulated, including the ...
Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) University of Antwerp
Cultural History since 1750, Leuven KU Leuven
The research group Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, seeks to cover many aspects of the cultural landscape of the past. It focuses on the history of knowledge and science, historiography and historical culture, cultural infrastructure and cultural tranfers, by considering the various shapes and meanings of scientific and cultural practices.