Projects
Cultures of Spectacle. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research on film, theatre, dance and musical performance. University of Antwerp
Culture of spectacle. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research into film, theatre, dans and music performances. University of Antwerp
Yes we canon! A discursive analysis of canon debates in post-war Flemish theatre (1945-2010). University of Antwerp
Staging the supernatural. The role of theatre, science and media in the rise and fall of spiritualist performances in Belgium, 1830-1930. University of Antwerp
Theatre society. Vernacular literary culture and the development of an early modern knowledge society in the Low Countries, 1450-1650 Ghent University
Between 1450 and 1650, the world of performative literature became the centre of a Western European media system. Performative literature also became a model for the public organization and communication of knowledge. This project studies ways in which the institutions, agents, and media of the theatre society of an early modern metropolis (in this case Antwerp) translated and applied knowledge and information.
The "business of performance": Theatre impresarios and the dramatic repertoire in the Southern Netherlands between 1680 and 1795. University of Antwerp
Slavery on Scene: Locating Dutch Theatre in the Abolitionist Debate (1775-1825) Ghent University
SoS is the first systematic study exploring the representation of slavery on the Dutch stage in an age of significant ideological and political change. Considering text and performance as equally important carriers of meaning, it will try to determine the position of theatre in the abolitionist debate, and shed light on the complexities of the abolitionist ideology of that time.
On the postmodern status of classical tragedy & tragic vision: the novels, plays and theatre of Peter Verhelst Ghent University
This project wants to examine the possibility of a tragic vision in the novels, plays and theatre performances of Peter Verhelst, focussing on the relation between such a vision and the ubiquitous themes and motifs from classical tragedy in his oeuvre. Aesthetic and ethic analyses will result in original contributions both to the interpretation of Verhelst and to the postmodern reception history of classical tragedy.
The spectacle of socialism. A transnational and interdisciplinary research on the social and architectural history of WorkersU+2019 Assembly Buildings in European cities (1890-1914). Ghent University
This PhD aims to investigate the interactions and entanglements between architecture and the political culture of labour movements in prewar Europe by focusing on the architectural phenomenon of the often spectacular social democratic Maisons du Peuple or U+2018PeopleU+2019s HousesU+2019 that were built around the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century in a wide range of European cities. The objective is a clear-cut transnational and ...