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City and society in the Low Countries, 1200-1800: space, knowledge, social capital
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Start project |
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2007 |
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End project |
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2011-12-31 |
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Main topic |
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Commons, guilds, beguinages |
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Description of project |
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The IAP-project 'City and society in the Low Countries, 1200-1800: space, knowledge, social capital' aims at capitalizing on acquired know-how ('Urban Society in the Low Countries') and at the same time at enlarging and rejuvenating the network in order to fulfil expanded scientific goals. Available know-how on urban history in Belgium (and in the Netherlands through collaboration with a Dutch team) is brought together in order to explore topics which reflect current trends in historical research and to evaluate methodological innovation. Three research packages are proposed whose subjects emphasize the socio-cultural and spatial historical approach:
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Activities |
Dunkerque, Lille et Gand, 8-10 November 2007 Organised by the Ghent IAP-team (Jelle Haemers) in collaboration with Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin and Estelle Doudet (Université de Lille III) and Jean Devaux (Université du Littoral, Dunkerque).
Brussels, ULB, 15-16 November 2007 Organised by Vittoria Feola with participation of the different IAP-partners.
University of Antwerp, 7-8 December 2007 Organised by Peter Stabel, and James Murray.
Prato, April 2007 C . Billen (ULB) and M. Boone (Ghent) took part on the theme of fiscality. They were subsequently asked to participate in another conference on the fiscal ideology in Clermont-Ferrand (Sept. 2007) and in a conference on ecclesiastical fiscality (Madrid, 2008).
Lisbon, February 2008 Session organized by Jelle Haemers (UGent) and Bert De Munck (UA) on: ‘Urban Guilds, corporations and social capital (13th-17th Centuries)’, with participation of Maarten Van Dijck (UA) in this session.
New York, Columbia University, March 2008 In March 2008 the conference ‘The Economy and the State in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries: cooperation, competition, interdepence’ took place at the Columbia University, New York. Several members of the project (Maarten Prak, Marc Boone, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Peter Stabel) participated in this workshop.
Lyon, August 2008, biennial congress of the European Association of Urban History The IAP teams organised several sessions at this congress (sessions organised by M. Boone, C. Billen, J. Haemers, B. De Munck, M. Weis, A.-L. Van Bruaene, P. Stabel, B. Blondé). The specialist session entitled ‘Historians of the city and Henri Lefebvre’, organised by Claire Billen (ULB), Martha Howell (Columbia University, New York), and Marc Boone (UGent) elaborated on the theme of the social production of space, and the production of meaning through urban space. Jelle Haemers and Wouter Ryckbosch presented a joint lecture.
London, 31 January 2009 Jelle Haemers and Frederik Buylaert (UGent) presented a paper on the on the sexual behaviour of the nobility in town.
University of Ghent, 15 May 2009 Organized by Tim De Doncker (UGent) in cooperation with professor Anne-Laure van Bruaene and professor Katlijne Van der Stighelen. The workshop brought together scholars from both the fields of arts history as well as
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, 8 May 2009 Jelle Haemers organised a joint session with Christian Liddy (University of Durham).
University of Antwerp, 28-29 May 2009 This workshop maps the impact of the northern renaissance on Antwerp and vice versa. The impact of the renaissance was investigated in different fields (architecture, urban space, consumption, public culture, integration of migrants, medical knowledge, social control, warfare, etc.).
Utrecht, 3-7 August 2009 (http://www.wehc2009.org/) Maarten Prak and Tine De Moor (UU) were on the local organizing committee. This congress offered excellent opportunities for scholars in economic history from all over the world to present their work, exchange knowledge and views, and set the research agenda for the years to come.
Luxembourg, 7 September 2009 Annual meeting of the ‘International Commission for the History of Towns’. Jelle Haemers presented together with Jan Dumolyn his research on urban revolts at Ghent.
Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium, 6 November 2009. This conference was organised by the Royal Library, the IAP, the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), the contact group FNRS ‘Documents rares et précieux’, the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and the Vlaamse Werkgroep Boekgeschiedenis (VWB). Other members of the IAP were associated to this event: Sébastien Afonso (ULB), Ann Kelders (KBR) and Monique Weis (ULB).
Brussels, Francqui-chair: Martha Howell, 7 November 2009. A workshop featuring new research on various aspects of trade, the social relations affected by trade, and the cultural responses to commerce.
University of Ghent, 13-14 November 2009 This round table is the second one in a series of three organised by the Spanish-French-Belgian-British collaborative project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science entitled ‘Espacio público, opinión y comunicación política a fines de la Edad Media / Public space, opinion and political communication in the late Middle Ages’. The first meeting took place at Seville in September 2008. During this meeting the analysis of different types of source material to discover the ‘voices of the subaltern’ was the central point of departure. Organised by Jelle Haemers and Jan Dumolyn with participation of several IAP-members.
KBR, 18 March 2010 Organised by Céline Van Hoorebeeck (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique) in collaboration with Xavier Hermand (Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur), with participation of B. Bousmanne.
Ghent, 13-16 April 2010 (http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/) The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The IAP-members will also organise different sessions.
New York, 11-12 March 2010 Organised by Marc Boone (Ugent) in collaboration with Claire Billen (ULB), Martha Howell (Colombia University), Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan (§Université de Paris, Sorbonne). With participation of Marc Boone (UGent), Claire Billen (ULB), Chloé Deligne (ULB), Peter Stabel (UA).
Ghent, 1-5 September 2010 As president of the European Association of Urban History Marc Boone organizes, with the IAP in support. |
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Participants |
The composition of the teams (UGent, ULB, UA, KBR, MRBAB/KMSKB and Universiteit Utrecht) came about in order to take maximum advantage of available competencies and in response to a clear wish both to redirect research in the direction of cultural studies in a broad interdisciplinary sense (hence the incorporation of the Royal Museum) and to explore the link between urban economy and the diffusion of intellectual knowledge (hence the incorporation of the University of Utrecht as European partner). |
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Funding body |
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Belgian Science Policy |
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Co-ordinator |
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Prof. dr. Marc Boone (Ghent University) |
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Contact details |
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Prof. dr. Marc Boone (Ghent University) |
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