Projects
Cultural trade between the Southern Netherlands and New Spain. A history of transatlantic book circuits and book consumption in the early modern age. KU Leuven
(Re)Writing history in early modern Mechelen: genesis of text and gradations of authorship in an urban chronicle tradition. University of Antwerp
(Re)Writing history in early modern Mechelen: genesis of text and gradations of authorship in an urban chronicle tradition. University of Antwerp
PhD position in Early Modern Chinese and Global History KU Leuven
This PhD will examine documentation on the use and circulation of plants, herbs, medicines, and diseases imported from the 'New World' into coastal China (Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Macau, Taiwan), including the socio-cultural and (ethno-)medical impacts on local societies and the development of cross-cultural scientific knowledge transfer. Targeted research will also touch upon the impacts of crops (e.g., maize, chili pepper, sweet potatoes) ...
History and Theory of Early Modern Architecture Ghent University
My research examines the practices and techniques of early modern architecture, with particular attention to fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy. My work is pioneering in the authority it grants practical, working architectural drawings, renderings that are commonly overlooked by historians of architecture and art due to their utilitarian and workaday qualities. Since Giorgio Vasari, scholars have been conditioned to differentiate ...
Alliance Research Group: Institute of Early Modern History Ghent University
The Institute for Early Modern History (IEMH) is a research alliance linking historians of the Early Modern Period from Ghent University with those from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel by regulary organizing scientific gatherings and acting as a forum for the Ph.D. students of Early Modern history at both universities. The study of the transformational processes marking the beginning and end of the period, and developments in specific social ...
The Untold History of Early Modern Psychology: Soul, Mind, and Body, Between the Fifth Lateran Council and Cartesian Dualism (1513-1662) KU Leuven
What is the mind and how does it relate to our body? These are central questions in today’s philosophy of mind, and they have a long history. The very concept of “mind”, as the item responsible for cognition, and the so-called “mind-body problem” are normally traced back to the philosophy of René Descartes (1597-1650) and his mindbody dualism. But were Descartes’ views solely the result of his ingenuity, or were they rather a synthesis of ...
BOF ZAP early modern history of art Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Tenure track professorship in theory, history and criticism of early modern architecture Ghent University
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.