Annual Report 2010-2011 - Groep Humane Wetenschappen - KU

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1. Mission Statement and Strategic Goals 7
2. Governance 8
2.1. Board 8
2.3. International Advisory Board 9
2.4. The Academic Steering Committee 9
2.5. Members 10
3.1.1. Research Group: Literature, History, Theology, Philosophy and Fine Arts 12
3.1.2. Research Group: Peace and Transformative Growth 12
3.1.3. Research Group: Economics, Business, Law, Innovation and Valorization 13
3.2. Interdisciplinary Research 13
3.3. Publications in the Various Disciplines 14
3.3.1. Research Field 1: Literature, History, Theology, Philosophy and Fine Arts 14
3.3.2. Research Field 2: Peace and Transformative Growth 15
3.3.3. Research Field 3: Economics, Business, Law, Innovation and Valorization 16
3.4. Interdisciplinary Research 17
3.4.2. Reconciliation 23
3.4.4. Representation: Development of Symbols 24
3.4.5. Migration and Diaspora 24
3.4.6. Globalization and Innovation 25
4. Projects 26
4.1. PhD Projects 26
4.2. Research Funding 27
4.2.1. Research Line 1: Literature, History, Theology, Philosophy and Fine Arts 27
4.2.2. Research Line 2: Peace and Transformative Growth 27
4.2.3. Research Line 3: Economics, Business, Law, Innovation and Valorisation 28
4.2.4. Interdisciplinary Research 28
5.1. Workshops and Conferences Organized by the LCIS 29
5.2. Conferences on Irish Studies in which LCIS Members Participated 31
5.3. International PhD Seminars 33
5.4. Research Seminars in Irish Studies 34
5.5. Student Presentations in Irish Studies 35
5.6. PhD network NUI Galway – Lille III – KU Leuven – University of Limerick 36
5.7. Lectures 36
5.8. Expertise 38
5.8.2. Diverse Expertise
7.1. Exiles 46
7.3. Opening on 22 March 2010 48
7.3.1. Highlights 49
It is my pleasure to present the first Annual Report
of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS). As a new
research centre of the Association KU Leuven, launched
in March 2010, we enjoyed a very dynamic period.
Researchers have been brought together to cooperate
in the classical field of Irish Studies. Moreover new areas
of research related to the Irish context, like peace studies
and transformative growth, international economics,
innovation and valorization have been developed.
This resulted in numerous international workshops,
conference and other events. New contacts with Irish
researchers and institutions as well as with other centres
for Irish Studies worldwide have been established.
This annual report provides an overview of our activities
and achievements during the period 2010-2011. I wish to
thank all colleagues and partners who contributed to the
launch and growth of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies.
Prof. Dr. Hedwig Schwall
LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 7
The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS), officially
launched on the 22nd of March 2010, is an interfaculty
multi- and interdisciplinary research centre of
the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University
of Leuven (KU Leuven) and its Association partners
(Association KU Leuven). It is the result of close
cooperation between the KU Leuven and the Leuven
Institute for Ireland in Europe.
The LCIS was founded based on an agreement between
the KU Leuven, represented by Professor Mark Waer,
Rector of the KU Leuven, Professor Filip Abraham,
Vice-Rector of the Humanities and Social Sciences
of the KU Leuven and Professor Hedwig Schwall,
General Director of the LCIS, and the Leuven Institute
for Ireland in Europe, represented by Mr. Eddy Sullivan,
Chairman.
1 To stimulate cooperation between researchers
from Irish universities on the one hand and from
the Association KU Leuven and other Belgian
institutions on the other hand;
2 To conduct research in the classical fields of Irish
Studies as well as in research areas related to
the Irish context;
the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe.
In these activities, the Centre also supports and is closely
associated with the European Federation of Associations
and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS).
Three research areas can be distinguished within
the LCIS:
and Fine Arts
and Valorization
Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
The Irish College also provides a unique venue
for various projects and events organized by
the LCIS and its partners.
Mission Statement and Strategic Goals1
A Board governs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
(LCIS) and establishes its strategy. The management is
in the hands of a General Director and two research
directors. An Academic Steering Committee advises
the General Director and the research directors
on the academic work programme of the Centre.
A distinguished International Advisory Board
supports the academic activities of the Centre
and ensures its international visibility.
2.1. Board The Board sets out the strategy of the Centre on
the basis of a proposed work programme developed
by the General Director and the Research Directors.
For the period 2010-2015 the Board consists of
• Prof. Dr. Filip Abraham, Vice-rector of KU Leuven
for the Humanities and Social Sciences (President
of the Board)
to the Kingdom of Belgium (previously H.E.
Mr. Tom Hanney)
and Board Member of the Leuven Institute for Ireland
in Europe
Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven
• Mr. Jan Smets, Director of the National Bank of
Belgium and President of the Board of the H.U.Brussel
• Mr. Edwin De Boeck, Chief Economist KBC Bank
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• Prof. Dr. Jan Roegiers, Professor Emeritus,
KU Leuven and member of the Royal Flemish
Academy of Belgium
the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, KU Leuven
• Mr. David O'Sullivan, Chief Operating Officer at
the European External Action
2.2. General Director and Research Directors The General Director and the Research Directors are
responsible for the management of the LCIS. They seize
academic opportunities, stimulate the participating
research groups, seek funding opportunities and
represent the Centre within and outside the KU Leuven.
Prof. Dr. Hedwig Schwall
History, Theology, Philosophy and Fine Arts
Prof. Dr. Patrick Luyten
Prof. Dr. Jan Van Hove
Research Director for Economics, Business, Law,
Innovation and Valorization
2.3. International Advisory Board The International Advisory Board consists of
distinguished international scholars from all the fields
included in the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, and
advises the Centre’s Research Directors and Scholars.
They meet once a year at the Irish College in Leuven.
The International Advisory Board ensures the
international visibility of the LCIS and strengthens
its ties to Ireland and other centres of Irish Studies.
The current International Advisory Board consists
of the following members:
• Mr. Barney Devine (NICTT)
University of Liverpool)
• Prof. Dr. Margaret Kelleher (Director of An Foras Feasa,
NUI Maynooth)
• Prof. Dr. Marc Vervenne (Honorary Rector KU Leuven,
representative of the Association KU Leuven and
President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission)
The International Advisory Board had its first meeting
on 22 October 2011 in Leuven.
2.4. The Academic Steering Committee The Academic Steering Committee consists of the
General Director, the Research Directors and seven
faculty members from the KU Leuven and its Association
partners who are involved in research within the fields
mentioned above. This Committee has an advisory
capacity and its main purpose is to provide advice
on the academic work programme of the Centre.
For the period 2010-2014 the academic steering
committee consists of
• Prof. Dr. Fred Truyen (KU Leuven, IT)
• Prof. Dr. Hedwig Schwall (General Director LCIS)
• Prof. Dr. Jan Van Hove (Research Director LCIS)
• Prof. Dr. Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven, History)
• Prof. Dr. Karolien De Bruyne (H.U.Brussel and
KU Leuven, Economics)
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Luyten (Research Director LCIS)
• Prof. Dr. Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven, Political
Sciences
Irish at the University of Leuven, 1548-1797. A prosopography by Jeroen Nilis; Leuven, Acco, 2010.
2.5. Members Because the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary
research centre, its members belong to various faculties
of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven.
Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian
as well as from Irish universities are active researchers
within the LCIS.
Belgian partners:
Libre de Bruxelles)
Education (BAAHE)
Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor
Wetenschappen en Kunsten van België, KVAWKB)
• The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of
Ghent and The Museum & Archives of Flanders Fields
Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively
involved in the Centre’s research projects and academic
events. They are classified according to their research field.
Field 1: Literature, History, Theology, Philosophy
and Fine Arts
• Prof. Dr. Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Elke D'hoker (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Raphaël Ingelbien (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Eline Poelmans (H.U.Brussel and KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)
• Prof. Dr. Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and H.U.Brussel)
• Prof. Dr. Violet Soen (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)
• Dr. Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)
• Dr. Luc Vints (KU Leuven)
• Dr. Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)
Field 2: Peace and Transformative Growth
• Prof. Dr. Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)
• Prof. Dr. Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)
Field 3: Economics
• Prof. Dr. Karen Crabbé (Lessius University College
and KU Leuven)
KU Leuven)
Maynooth)
Maynooth)
• Prof. Dr. Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit
Hasselt)
• Prof. Dr. Stijn Vanormelingen (H.U.Brussel and
KU Leuven)
Centre’s research projects and academic events.
• Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven, Literature)
• Marijke Claes (KU Leuven, Economics)
• Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University, Linguistics)
• Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven, Literature)
• Sean O'Dubhghaill (KU Leuven, Peace Studies)
• Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven, Peace Studies)
• Glenn Magerman (H.U.Brussel and KU Leuven,
Economics)
• Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin, History)
• Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven, Literature)
• Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven, Economics)
• Catherine Thewissen (Université Catholoque
de Louvain, Literature & Linguistics)
Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers
support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional
basis.
• Dr. Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent, Literature)
• Prof. Dr. André Decoster (KU Leuven , Economics)
• Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen (KU Leuven, Literature)
• Prof. Dr. Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven, Literature)
• Prof. Dr Wim François (KU Leuven, Theology)
• Prof. Dr. Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen,
Literature)
• Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar, History)
• Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven, History)
• Dr. Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork,
Literature)
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen,
Literature)
3.1. Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large
research lines. Each research group is headed by a
Research Director. In addition the LCIS aims to launch
new, interdisciplinary research lines.
(KU Leuven and H.U.Brussel)
Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the
present, which is studied from various intersecting
angles: narratology, psychoanalysis, gender studies,
comparative and transcultural approaches. It also builds
on developing print and digital holdings in Leuven’s
libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish
literature within the faculty of Arts.
In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period,
when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora
on the continent. Archives in Leuven, Brabant and the
rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers,
which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual
frameworks that link the study of letters, diaries and
like documents to the history of cultural exchange.
This can be extended to Irish life stories.
Of special importance are the archives of KADOC,
the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre, whose
vast repository of material and long tradition of studying
aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries
offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative
research between the continent and Ireland.
Of special interest will be the digitization of the
seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the
French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels.
The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in
cooperation with ISOS, Irish Script on Screen, who will
provide the metadata and join them with the other
material of that period, so that these texts will be
available to all scholars in the field.
Research Director: Prof. Dr. Patrick Luyten
(KU Leuven)
trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level.
Special interests include the role of resilience and
transformation in individuals and groups faced with
trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes
involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma
and resilience. Ongoing studies focus on the role of
mentalization, i.e., the capacity to interpret behavior in
terms of internal mental states such as feelings, wishes,
goals, and values, in both individuals and societies
(e.g., Ireland, ex-Yugoslavia, Israel) faced with trauma,
and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations.
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and Belgium.
(H.U.Brussel and KU Leuven)
economics, business and law. However, most attention
is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost
importance to small open economies such as Ireland and
Belgium that share many economic characteristics and
face common challenges. Hence research regarding
these common economic interests may benefit both
countries. In particular it will provide useful insights
to business leaders and policy makers.
International Trade and International Business
Firms and countries have to cope with many
challenges due to recent international economic trends
(e.g., globalization, the rise of China, the declining
manufacturing sector, the opening of services sectors).
Within this research area we look into how economic
policy and firms’ strategies create new business
opportunities in this globalized world.
Innovation and Valorization
and determinants of innovation, more precisely the impact
of innovation on economic performance (e.g., export and
investment performance, profitability, market shares).
Hence, the valorization of firms’ research efforts will be
a central theme.
European Economic Integration
and new integration issues in the EU.
3.2. Interdisciplinary Research While the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different
faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven,
the LCIS wants to create synergies. Several inter disciplinary
research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011.
Trauma and Transformation
This topic originated in psychology, but links up with the
representation of trauma in contemporary literature and
the arts (recent research on melancholia, the perception
of traumatized protagonist in fiction, effects of trauma on
narrativity, effect of ritual on trauma, the search for fitting
symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities
regarding guilt and forgiveness, adaptation of rituals, etc.)
A second line of research combines history, theology and
narrative theory, connecting private and public history.
Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield
interesting material, but other family books and diaries,
especially those which refer to war contexts,
will be analysed.
regional differences etc. The study of economic
geography combines insights from economics and
geography, but also from history, culture, political
sciences and possibly many other research areas.
The LCIS brings together several researchers from
the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this
promising research area.
members of the LCIS, the combined field of Economic
History is a priority for current and future research within
the LCIS. Various periods and issues can be studied,
relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology.
3.3. Publications in the Various Disciplines IT = International peer-reviewed, OJ Other Journals,
AB article in Book, ABISP Article in Book International
Scientific Publisher, EB, Edited Book
• Elke D'hoker. (accepted), And the transformation
begins: Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegan's
Daughter Stories, Contemporary Women's Writing (IT)
• D'hoker, E. (2011), Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling
Snapshots: Anne Enright's Short Fiction. In: Bracken C.,
Cahill S. (Eds.), Anne Enright. Dublin: Irish Academic
Press. (ABISP)
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction.
Vol 1. Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction.
(pp. 272-275). Oxford:. Wiley-Blackwell. (ABISP)
• D'hoker, E. (2011), Half-man or Half-doll: George
Egerton's response to Friedrich Nietzsche.
Women's Writing, 18 (4), pp. 524-546. (IT)
• D'hoker, E. (2011), Over het belang van literatuur.
Karakter: Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35), pp.13-15. (OJ)
• Ingelbien, R., Seynhaeve, B. (2011), The Critique of
Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne.
Modern Language Quarterly, 72 (2), 201-223. (IT)
• D’hoker, E., Ingelbien, R.and Schwall, H. (2011),
Introduction, in Irish Women Writers. New Critical
Perspectives. Oxford: Peter Lang; pp. 1-15. (ABISP)
• D'hoker, E. (2010), John Banville's Dualistic Universe.
In: Wright J. (Eds.), A Companion to Irish Literature
(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture),
vol. two, Chapt. 51 (pp. 345-359). Wiley-Blackwell.
(ABISP)
Clare' and the Irish Famine. Irish University Review,
40 (2), 1-19. (IT)
literair inter-nationalisme: een comparatistische
In: Bemong N., Kemperink M., Mathijsen M.,
Sintobin T. (Eds.), Naties in een spanningsveld.
Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming
in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland.
(pp. 33-47). Hilversum: Verloren. (AB)
• Schwall, H. (2010), Allegories of Writing: Figurations
of Narcissus and Echo in W.B. Yeats’s Work Fall 2010,
43 (1) 221-238. Writing Modern Ireland - special issue
of the South Carolina Review. Guest Editor Catherine
E. Paul. (IT)
• D’hoker, E., Ingelbien, R. and Schwall, H. (eds.) (2010),
Irish Women Writers. New Critical Perspectives.
Oxford: Peter Lang.
Luyten, P. (Eds). (in press). Handboek Borderline
Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline
• Luyten, P., Mayes, L. C., Fonagy, P., Target, M. and
Blatt, S. J. (Eds) (in press). Handbook of contemporary
psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology.
• Luyten, P., Vanmechelen W. and Hebbrecht, M. (Eds.)
(2011), Depressie: Actuele psychoanalytische
benaderingen [Depression. Contemporary Psycho -
dynamic approaches]. Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Garant.
• Vermeersch, P. (2011), Theories of ethnic mobilization:
Overview and recent trends, in: Graham Brown and
Arnim Langer (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Civil War
and Fragile States, Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar
Publishing, (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)
• Van Houdenhove, B., Luyten, P. and Vandenberghe,
J. (Eds.) (2010), Luisteren naar het lichaam.
Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body:
Beyond dualism]. Tielt: LannooCampus.
Issues of representation, internal democracy and
legitimacy, in: Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed.),
Political Participation of Minorities: A Commentary on
International Standards and Practice, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010, pp. 682-701. (ABISP)
• Vermeersch, P. (2010), Political mobilization, in:
The International Encyclopedia of Political Science,
Washington DC: CQ Press, pp. 1047-1052. (ABISP)
• Abraham, F. and Van Hove, J. (2011), Chinese
Competition in OECD Markets: Impact on the Export
Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries,
Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 14 (2),
pp. 151-170. (IT)
the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices: An Economic
Geography Approach, Applied Economics,
Economic Activity. Is there a Spatial Employment
Structure in Belgium? International Journal of
Economic Issues, 3 (2), pp. 199-222. (IT)
• Decoster A., De Swerdt K. and Orsini K. (2010),
A Belgian flat income tax: effects on labour supply
and income distribution Review of Business and
Economics, 55 (1), pp. 23-54. (OJ)
• Decoster A., Loughrey J., O'Donoghue C. and
Verwerft D. (2010), How regressive are indirect taxes.
A microsimulation analysis for five European countries,
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 29 (2),
pp. 326 - 350. (IT)
International Journal of Microsimulation,
L’autonomie fiscale des régions en Belgique :
evaluation et perspectives , Documentatieblad
• Decoster, A., Loughrey J., O'Donoghue, C. and
Verwerft, D. (2010), Incidence and welfare effects of
indirect taxes , European meeasures of income and
poverty: lessons for the U.S. - International Policy
Exchange Series
“make” and “buy” strategies and firm growth: firm
level evidence from Brazil, Structural Change and
Economic Dynamics, forthcoming. (IT)
divide in scientific productivity: why the average
scientist does not exist, Industrial and Corporate
Change, 20 (1), pp. 295-336. (IT)
• Marneffe, W. B. van Aarle, W. van der Wielen, and
L. Vereeck (2011), The impact of fiscal rules on public
finances in the Euro Area, CESifo DICE Journal for
Institutional Comparisons, 3/2011, p.18-25.
and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967):
Was West Germany kept “small”?, Essays in
Economic and Business History, 30.
• Poelmans, E., Swinnen, J. (2011), From Monasteries
to Multinationals (and Back): A Historical Review of
the Beer Economy, Journal of Wine Economics,
6 (2), pp. 196-216.
innovative companies: Why they matter and how
(not) to policy support them, Industrial and Corporate
Change, 19 (4), pp. 969 - 1007. (IT)
• van Aarle, B. and R. Sosoian, Macroeconomic
adjustment in Armenia: The role of external factors,
Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, Vol.4,
No.1 (2010), pp.1-24. (IT)
Manufacturing Trade: The Impact of Chinese Import
Competition, in Wouters J. and Sterckx, S. (eds.),
European Union, United States and Global Governance:
Major Trends and Challenges, Leuven Centre for
Global Governance Studies, pp. 89-102. (ABISP)
• Van Hove, J. (2010), Deflationary Effects of
Devaluations, in Garcia-Solanes J. et al. (eds.),
Perspectives on International Economics:
pp. 43-84. (ABISP)
Bilateral Export Performance: Evidence from Intra-
European Trade, International Journal of Economic
Issues, 3 (2), pp. 261-299. (IT)
• Van Hove, J. (2010), The Impact of R&D Spillovers
on Export Value: Does the Transmission Channel
matter?, in Richter, C. et al. (eds.) Globalisation New
Challenges: Macroeconomic, International Trade and
Financial Issues, Lambert Academic Publishing, pp.
110-138. (ABISP)
European Manufacturing Trade: The Impact of
Innovation and Technological Spillovers, Journal of
Economic Policy Reform, 13 (1), pp. 43-59. (IT)
• Van Puyenbroeck, T., De Bruyne, K. and Sels, L.
(2011), More than ‘Mutual Information’: Educational
and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction
on the Flemish labor market, forthcoming in Labour
Economics. (IT)
• Vanormelingen, S., Persyn, D. and Swinnen, J. (2011),
Belgian Beers: Where History Meets Globalization.
In Swinnen, J. (Eds.), The Economics of Beer Oxford
University Press. (ABISP)
A. Seymen, Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the
euro area: In search of a ‘euro effect’, Open Economies
Review , Vol. 22, No.2 (2011), p.427-446. (IT)
3.4. Interdisciplinary Research
Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the
Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness
and Depressive Symptoms? Journal of Nervous
and Mental Disease, 199(10), pp. 757-764. (IT)
• Blatt, S. J. and Luyten, P. (2010), Reactivating the
psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -
pathology,in T. Millon, R. F. Krueger, & E. Simonsen
(Eds.), Contemporary directions in psychopathology.
Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11
(pp. 483-514). New York: The Guilford Press. (ABISP)
• Blatt, S. J. and Luyten, P. (in press). Relatedness and
self-definition in personality and psychopathology.
In L. M. Horowitz & S. Strack (Eds.), Handbook of
interpersonal psychology: Theory, research, assessment,
and therapeutic interventions. New York: John Wiley
& Sons. (ABISP)
Subalternity, and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan
Boland. Neophilologus: An International Journal of
Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 94.1,
pp. 265-76. (IT)
Yet Enough: Shadows of the Coming Race in
George Eliot's Final Fiction. Partial Answers, 9(1),
pp. 17-39. (IT)
• de Graef, O., Gilleir, A. (2010), The Stigma of Its
Present Name: Matthew Arnold’s Scripts of State,
Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities,
v. 2. (IT)
Adult attachment in the context of refugee
traumatisation: The impact of organized violence
and forced separation on parental states of mind
regarding attachment. Attachment and Human
Development, 12, pp. 249-264.
Holding harm: Narrative methods in mental health
research on refugee trauma. Qualitative Health
Research, 20, pp. 1664-1676.
Trauma narration between home and host societies:
A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee
rehabilitation. Manuscript in preparation.
preparation.
Trauma transmission in refugee families: Understanding
the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and
forced dislocation. Manuscript in preparation.
• De Haene, L., Verschueren, K., Grietens, H.,
Adriaenssens, P., Dalgaard, N., & Montgomery, E.
(2011), Attachment security in refugee children:
Findings from a two-site pilot study in community
and clinical samples. Manuscript under review.
• Fonagy, P. and Luyten, P. (2010), Mentalization:
Understanding borderline personality disorder.
The embodied self. Dimensions, coherence, and
disorders (pp. 260-277). Stuttgart: Schattauer. (ABISP)
• Fonagy, P. and Luyten, P. (2011), Die Entwicklungs -
psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-
Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der
Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline
personality disorder in childhood and adolescence:
A review of evidence from the standpoint of a
mentalization based approach]. Psyche. Zeitschrift
für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen, 65 (9-10),
pp. 900-952. (IT)
and borderline personality disorder. In A. Fotopoulou,
D. Pfaff, & M. A. Conway (Eds.), From the couch to
the lab: Psychoanalysis, neuroscience and cognitive
psychology in dialogue. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. (ABISP)
Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. (ABISP)
Introduction and overview. In A. W. Bateman &
P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of Mentalizing in mental
health practice (pp. 3-42). Washington, DC: American
Psychiatric Press. (ABISP)
Borderline personality disorder, mentalization and
the neurobiology of attachment. Infant Mental Health
Journal, 32(1), pp. 47-69. (IT)
• Fonagy, P., Luyten, P. and Strathearn, L. (2011),
Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality
Disorder in Infancy. In H. E. Fitzgerald, K. Puura,
M. Tomlinson, & C. Paul (Ed.), International Perspectives
on Children and Mental Health: Volume 1: Development
and Context (pp. 129-153). Santa Barbara: Praeger.
(ABISP)
P. Fonagy, & G. O. Gabbard (Eds.), Psychodynamic
psychotherapy for personality disorders: A clinical
handbook (pp. 37-87). Washington, DC: American
Psychiatric Association.
P., Van Houdenhove, B., & Van Wambeke, P. (2010),
Predictors of outcome in a multi-component
treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome.
Journal of Affective Disorders, 126(1-2),
pp. 174-179. (IT)
Goossens, L., Bekaert, P. and Van Wambeke, P.
(in press). Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship
Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression
in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Clinical Rheumatology.
• Kempke, S., Van Houdenhove, B., Luyten, P.,
Goossens, L., Bekaert, P. and Van Wambeke, P.
(2011), Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic
fatigue syndrome: Is there a distinction between
adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism?
• Louwagie, F., Vermeulen, P. and Rothberg, M. (2010),
Michael Rothberg (interview réalisé par Fransiska
Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen): L'Holocauste et
l'imagination comparative. Témoigner. Entre Histoire
et Mémoire (106), pp. 151-167.
• Lowyck, B., Vermote, R., Luyten, P., Franssen, M.,
Verhaest, Y., Vertommen, H. and Peuskens, J. (2010),
Comparison of reflective functioning as measured
on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object
Relations Inventory in patients with a personality
disorder. A preliminary study, Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, 57(6), pp. 1469-1472. (IT)
• Luyten, P. (2011), De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst
in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between
process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy].
In J. Dirkx, M. Hebbrecht, A. Mooij, & R. Vermote (Eds).
Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of
• Luyten, P. (in press), De behandeling van de borderline
persoonlijkheidsstoornis: Stand van zaken en
toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline
personality disorder: State of the art and future
perspectives]. In T. Ingenhoven, M. Van Reekum,
M., B. van Luyn, & P. Luyten (Eds), Handboek
Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook
De Tijdstroom. (ABISP)
• Luyten, P. (in press), The coming of age of
psychoanalytic treatment research. In R. A. Levy,
S. Ablon, & H. Kächele (Eds.), Handbook of
Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
New York: Humana Press/Springer. (ABISP)
• Luyten, P. and Blatt, S. J. (2011), Psychodynamic
approaches of depression: Whither shall we go?
[Editorial]. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological
Processes, 74(1), pp. 1-3.
driven and empirically-derived models of personality
development and psychopathology: A proposal for
DSM V. Clinical Psychology Review, 31, pp. 52-68. (IT)
• Luyten, P. and Fonagy, P. (2011), Depressie en de
onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie, theorie
en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond
among phenomenology, theory and technique].
In P. Luyten, W. Vanmechelen, & M. Hebbrecht (Eds.),
Depressie: Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen.
factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en
syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional
somatic symptoms and disorders]. In B. Van
Houdenhove, P. Luyten, & J. Vandenberghe (Eds.),
Luisteren naar het lichaam. Het dualisme voorbij
[Listening to the body: Beyond dualism] (pp. 59-73).
Tielt: LannooCampus. (AB)
and Counseling, 80, 147. (IT)
Common versus specific factors in the treatment
of functional somatic disorders, Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration.
• Luyten, P., Blatt, S. J. and Mayes, L. C. (in press),
Process and outcome in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy research: The need for a (relatively)
new paradigm. In R. A. Levy, S. Ablon, & H.
• Kächele (Eds.), Handbook of Evidence-Based
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Bridging the Gap
Between Science and Practice. New York: Humana
Press/Springer. (ABISP)
(2012), Depression. In A. W. Bateman & P. Fonagy
(Eds.), Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health
practice (pp. 385-417). Washington, DC: American
Psychiatric Press. Washington, DC: American
(2012), Assessment of mentalization. In A. W. Bateman
& P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of Mentalizing in
mental health practice (pp. 43-65). Washington,
DC: American Psychiatric Press. (ABISP)
• Luyten, P., Kempke, S., Van Wambeke, P., Claes, S.,
Blatt, S. J. and Van Houdenhove, B. (2011),
Self-critical perfectionism, stress generation and
stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome: Relationships with severity of depression.
Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes,
74(1), pp. 21-30. (IT)
The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and
Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based
Follow-Up Study. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
24(4), pp. 417-436. (IT)
(2010), De neurale basis van mentalisatie.
Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling
van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit
een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of
mentalisation. Implications for the conceptualisation
and treatment of borderline personality disorder].
In M. Kinet & A. Bazan (Eds.), Psychoanalyse en
neurowetenschap. De geest in de machine
[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience. The ghost in
the machine]. Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Garant. (AB)
• Luyten, P., Mayes, L. C., Fonagy, P. and Target, M.
(in press), Developmental research. In G. O. Gabbard,
B. Litowitz & P. Williams (Eds.). The American Psychiatric
Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed.).
Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
• Morlion, B., Kempke, S., Luyten, P., Coppens, E.
and Van Wambeke, P. (2011), Multidisciplinary pain
education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients:
preliminary evidence for effectiveness and
mechanisms of change, Current Medical Research
and Opinion, 27(8), pp. 1595-1601. (IT)
• Nijssens, L., Luyten, P. and Bales, D. (in press),
Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)
with borderline personality disorder. In N. Midgley &
I. Vrouva (Eds.), Minding the child: Mentalization-based
interventions with children, young people and their
families. London: Routledge. (ABISP)
• Nolte, T., Guiney, J., Fonagy, P., Mayes, L. C. and
Luyten, P. (in press), Interpersonal stress regulation
and the development of anxiety disorders:
An attachment-based developmental framework.
• Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M. and Luyten, P. (2010),
Towards a domain-specific approach to the study
of parental psychological control: Distinguishing
between dependency-oriented and achievement-
78(1), pp. 217-256. (IT)
Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en
veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative
study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish
adoptive parents], Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek,
Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie. (OJ)
• Taubner, S., Nolte, T., Luyten, P. and Fonagy, P. (2010),
Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the
self]. Persönlichkeitsstörungen, Theorie und Therapie,
14, pp.243-258. (OJ)
Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in
Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions, Revue Transitions. (IT)
• Van Houdenhove, B. and Luyten, P. (2010), Chronic
fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability
[Editorial], Journal of Internal Medicine, 268,
pp.249-251. (IT)
• Van Houdenhove, B. and Luyten, P. (2011), Listen
to the story. CFS patients don’t live in a vacuum.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 80,
• Van Houdenhove, B., Kempke, S. and Luyten, P. (2010),
Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
and Fibromyalgia, Current Psychiatry Reports, 12(3),
pp. 208-214.
• Van Houdenhove, B., Pae, C. U. and Luyten, P. (2010),
Chronic fatigue syndrome: Is there a role for non-
antidepressant pharmacotherapy? Expert Opinion
• Vermeulen, P. (2010), Being True to Fact: Coetzee’s
Prose of the World. In: Leist A., Singer P. (Eds.),
Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on
Literature. New York:. Columbia University Press.
(ABISP)
after the Holocaust. London: Continuum.
• Vermote, R., Lowyck, B. and Luyten, P. (in press),
Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de
borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and
In T. Ingenhoven, M. Van Reekum, M., B. van Luyn,
& P. Luyten (Eds), Handboek Borderline
Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline
Tijdstroom. (ABISP)
Vertommen, H., Vandeneede, B., Corveleyn, J. and
Peuskens, J. (2011), Patterns of Inner Change and
Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and
Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based
Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients,
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 18(4),
Corveleyn, J., Verhaest, Y., Stroobants, R.,
Vandeneede, B., Vansteelandt, K. and Peuskens, J.
(2010), Process and outcome in psychodynamic
hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a
personality disorder, Journal of Nervous and Mental
Disease, 198(2), pp.110-115. (IT)
W. and Luyten, P. (2012), Psychodynamically oriented
therapeutic settings. In A. W. Bateman & P. Fonagy
(Eds.), Handbook of mentalizing in mental health
practice (pp. 247-269). Washington, DC: American
Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind. Depressie
in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op
de moeder-kind relatie. In M. J. Rexwinkel, M. G. J.
Smeets, C. H. Pannevis & H. H. F. Derkx (Eds.).
Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling. (ABISP)
• Vliegen, N., Luyten, P., Besser, A., Casalin, S.,
Kempke, S. and Tang, E. (2010), Stability and change
in levels of depression and personality: A follow-up
study of postpartum depressed mothers that were
hospitalized in a mother-infant unit, Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease, 198(1), pp. 45-51. (IT)
• Bieringer, R. (2011), The Comforted Comforter:
The Meaning of παρακαλω or παρκλησις Terminology in 2 Corinthians, in HTS Teologiese
Studies/Theological Studies 67/1 (2011) 1-7. (IT)
• Bieringer, R. (2011), Reconciliation to God in the Light
of 2 Corinthians 5:14-21, in Reimund Bieringer &
David Bolton (eds.), Reconciliation in Interfaith
Perspective: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Voices,
Leuven - Walpole MA: Peeters, 2011, pp. 39-58. (ABISP)
• Bieringer, R. and Bolton, D. (eds.) (2011), Reconciliation
in Interfaith Perspective: Jewish, Christian and
Muslim Voices, Leuven - Walpole MA: Peeters.
• Bieringer, R. (2010), Dying and Being Raised For:
Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians
5:14-15, in Constantine Belezos, Sotirios Despotis &
Christos Karakolis (eds.), Saint Paul and Corinth:
1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to
the Corinthians: Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of
Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Paul's
Time, vol. 1, Metamorfossi: Psichogios Publications,
2010, pp. 311-327. (AB)
De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis
van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de
visie van Paulus, in Terrence Merrigan & Joke Lambelin
(eds.), Sporen van heil: Christus in een multireligieuze
wereld (LOGOS. Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond
Geloof, Openbaring en Spiritualiteit, 5), Antwerpen:
Halewijn, 2010, pp. 11-23. (AB)
• De Maeyer, J. (2011), Constructing Christianity
1850-1950. Imagining, Building & Contesting.
(Cleys, B., Ed., De Maeyer, J., Ed., De Meulder, B., Ed.,
Howard, A., Ed.). Leuven: Leuven University Press. (AB)
• Baert, B. (2010), “Job of de schreeuw naar God in
de beeldende kunsten”, in Hans Ausloos & Ignace
Bossuyt (eds), Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld,
woord en klank, Leuven, pp. 61-104. (AB)
• Lamberigts, M. (2011), The Importance of Diaries
for the Study of Vatican II. In: The Council Notes of
Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963. Critically annotated
bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta
Theologica, 34) (pp. IX-XIII). Leuven:. Peeters.
• Schwall, H. (2011), Relationships with ‘the Real’ in
the work of Anne Enright” in Anne Enright. Visions and
Revisions: Irish Writers in their Time. Irish Academic
Press. Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill.
205-222. (ABISP)
Imaging History. Photography after the fact.
Brussels: Academic & Scientific Publishers. (Book)
• Vermeulen, P. (2010), “Greenblatt's Melancholy
Fetish: Literary Criticism and the Desire for Loss.”
Textual Practice, 24 (3), 483. (IT)
• Vermeulen, P. (2010), Remember, or now know:
Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker and the Politics
of Melancholia, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und
Amerikanistik, 58 (2). (IT)
Differential Self. Arcadia. Zeitschrift für Allgemeine und
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, 45 (1). (IT)
• Baert, B. (2011), Interspaces between Word, Gaze
and Touch. The Bible and the Visual Medium in the
Middle Ages. Collected essays on Noli me tangere,
the Woman with the Haemorrhage, the Head of
John the Baptist, (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia, LXII),
Leuven (Peeters), 156 p., 63 images. (AB)
• Baert, B. (2011), ‘Who touched my clothes?’
The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage
(Mark 5.24b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture, in
"Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum", pp. 9-51. (OJ)
• Baert, B. (2011), Touching the Hem. The Thread
between Garment and Blood in the Story of the
Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 5:24b-34parr),
Textile. Journal of Cloth and Culture, 9 (3), Oxford,
pp. 308-359. (IT)
• Baert, B. (2011) Imprint/uitstulping. Kleine iconologie
van de navel, in Materie en Beeld, ed. L. Pil, Gent,
pp. 27-42. (AB)
1850-1950. Imagining, Building & Contesting.
(Cleys, B., Ed., De Maeyer, J., Ed., De Meulder, B., Ed.,
Howard, A., Ed.). Leuven: Leuven University Press.
• Lamberigts, M. (2011), De liturgische beweging in
context. Tijdschrift voor Liturgie, 95 (4), 186-208. (OJ)
• Schwall, H. (2011), Noli me tangere in the Bible and
in Literature: Civilisations and Their Discontent.
Reimund Bieringer, Barbara Baert & Karlijn Demasure
(eds.), To Touch or Not to Touch? Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on the Noli me tangere. (Annua Nuntia
Lovaniensia), Leuven: Peeters. (ABISP)
taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp. 71-83).
Leuven:. Leuven university press. (AB)
• Kenis, Leo. (2010), The Transformation of the Christian
Churches in Western Europe. La transformation des
églises chrétiennes en Europe occidentale, 1945-
2000. (Kenis, L., Ed., Billiet, J., Ed., Pasture, P., Ed.).
Leuven: Leuven University Press. (AB)
• Pasture, P. and Kenis, L. (2010), The Transformation
of Christian Churches in Western Europe.
An Introduction. In: Kenis L., Billiet J., Pasture P.
(Eds.), The Transformation of the Christian Churches
in Western Europe. La transformation des églises
chrétiennes en Europe occidentale, 1945-2000
(KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, 6)
(pp. 7-19). Leuven:. Leuven University Press (ABISP)
• Ingelbien, R. (2010), Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad:
Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888).
New Hibernia Review, 14 (2), pp. 102-117. (IT)
• Nilis, Jeroen. Irish at the University of Leuven,
1548-1797. A prosopography, Leuven, Acco, 2010.
(Book)
Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid.
legislation’ (conference report), Nadace Open Society
Fund Prague, 61 p. (IT)
• Vermeersch, P. (2011), ‘Theories of ethnic mobilization:
Overview and recent trends’, in: Graham Brown and
Arnim Langer (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Civil War
and Fragile States, Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar
Publishing, (forthcoming in 2011). (IT)
• Vermeersch, P. and Fox, J. (2010), Backdoor
nationalism, European Journal of Sociology, 51(2),
pp. 325-357. (IT)
can international institutions play a role?’,
Development and Transition, (15), pp. 7-10. (IT)
• Vermeersch, P. (2010), ‘Backdoor nationalism’
(with Jon Fox), European Journal of Sociology, 51(2),
pp. 325-357. (IT)
in: Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed.), Political
Participation of Minorities: A Commentary on
International Standards and Practice, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010, pp. 682-701. (IT)
• Vermeersch, P. (2010), ‘Political mobilization’, in:
The International Encyclopedia of Political Science,
Washington DC: CQ Press, pp. 1047-1052. (IT)
• Veugelers, R. (2010), Towards a multipolar science
world: Trends and impact, Scientometrics, 82 (2),
pp. 439 - 456. (IT)
Boosting innovation in Europe, Intereconomics,
45 (5), pp. 264 - 286. (IT)
• Veugelers, R. (2010), A post-crisis policy agenda
to revive Europe's Schumpeterian growth capacity,
Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique,
vol. XLIX, no. 2, pp.15-24. (OJ)
• Belderbos, R., Sleuwaegen, L. and Veugelers, R.
(2010), Market integration and technological
leadership in Europe, Economic Papers, 403,
no. February 2010, pp. 1-152. (OJ)
4.1. PhD Projects A number of PhD projects are directly related to
the research areas the LCIS is active in.
• Brouckmans, Debbie (promotor: Elke D’hoker):
Delen van/zonder gehelen: individu, gemeenschap
en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland .
• Coppens, Eline (promotor: Patrick Luyten):
Early adversity and fibromyalgia.
DCU): Problems in translating English to Dutch
subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een
scholarship gekregen bij DCU, Dublin City University.
• Dude Roxana, Emanuela (promotor: Elke D’hoker):
De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke
identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman.
• Eggermont, Stephanie (promotor: Elke D’hoker):
A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of
women writers to the birth of the modern short story
in Britain: 1880-1910.
co-tutelle met Université de Lille): Aspects of the
(post)modern consciousness in John Banville’s work.
• Jerves, E. (co-promotor: Lucia De Haene): Sociale
marginalisatie, seksueel geweld, en relatievorming bij
alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders
to depression and functional somatic syndromes: The
role of personality, attachment, and social cognition.
• Koelen, Jurrijn (promotor: Patrick luyten): Attachment
and mentalization in somatoform disorders.
depression.
co-promotor: Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van
Cayseele): Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies
in International Trade.
Jiminez, Universidad de Chile – copromotor: Patrick
Luyten): Meanings and change associated with
suicidality: The role of personality and attachment.
• Neicu, Daniel (promotor: Stijn Kelchtermans,
co-promotor: Jan Van Hove, Peter Teirlinck,
Reinhilde Veugelers): Innovation Policy and Clusters
in Europe: Economic Performance of Young
Innovative Companies.
Scholarship of the IRCHSS, Irish Research Council
for Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Nijssens, Liesbet (promotor: Patrick Luyten):
Parental mentalization: Assessment and relationship
to attachment and social cognition.
• Rost, Felicitas (promotor: P.Fonagy, co-promotor:
Patrick Luyten): The Tavistock Adult Depression
Study (TADS).
Patrick Luyten): Attachment, trauma and mentalisation
in parent and infant development.
• Siouta, Naouma (promotor: Patrick Luyten):
Intergenerational transmission of attachment and
theory of mind: The role of mentalization.
Projects4
Affairs (Hedwig Schwall): “Coordination of EFACIS”
• Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland
to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall): “Digitization of Irish
Seventeenth-century documents in Belgium”
(Hedwig Schwall)
(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and
personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An ecological momentary
assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)
(Co-PIs: B. Van Houdenhove, S. Claes).
• Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-
Belgium (FWO): Personality and vulnerability for
affective spectrum disorders: The role of gene-
environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)
(Co-PI: Bart Soenens, Nicole Vliegen, Stephan Claes)
(01/01/2012-31/12/2015)
KU Leuven, Belgium (Co-PI: Lukas Van Oudenhove) on
the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome
• Research grant from ZonMW (2011): Day hospital
mentalization based treatment versus intensive
outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients
with severe borderline personality disorder: A multi-
centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PI’s:
Jan Van Busschbach, Dawn Bales, Roel Verheul).
• Studnicka, Zuzanna (promotor: Filip Abraham,
co-promotor: Jan Van Hove): Measurement and
Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade.
• Touquet, Heleen (promotor: Peter Vermeersch)
Escaping ethnopolis: postethnic mobilization in
Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense: January 2012).
cognition in dementia.
Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination, 1867-1900.
• Ya-Wen Lee (promotor: P. Fonagy, copromotor: Patrick
Luyten): Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression.
4.2. Research Funding The LCIS was able to attract external funding for several
research projects.
Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al),
KU Leuven (LCIS, Ortwin de Graef & Hedwig Schwall)
University of Salford (Anthony Rowland, Scott Webster)
and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson,
Pieter Vermeulen) (application)
Medicine”: Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)
pre- & postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties
Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene): transcultural
exploration of attachments in child refugees
• Brusselse Regering - Research Project on “Future
Perspectives for Brussels’ Exports: An Analysis
based on Bilateral Trade Flows” (promoters: Jan Van
Hove & Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)
• FWO-project (Filip Abraham, Jan Van Hove):
“Measurement and Determinants of Variety and
Quality in International Trade” (2010-2013)
• Nationale Bank van België - Research Project on
“Can Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon
and the Asian Tigers?” (promoters: Filip Abraham &
Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)
“The Desirability of the Investment Protection
Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property
Rights concerning Chips, Computer Programs and
Databases” (promoters: Jos Dumortier, co-promoter:
(promoter: Hylke Vandenbussche, copromoter:
2011 (Jan Van Hove)
three main research lines, the LCIS aims to find funding
for large interdisciplinary projects. An IDO-project has
been applied for, jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology),
Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques), Reimund Bieringer
(Theology), Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on
“Trauma, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: A mentalization-
based approach”. The issue of Peace and Transformation
seems to be an important topic that is in many ways
related to the basic mission of the LCIS, can be studied
from an interdisciplinary perspective, and is able to
attract research funding as well as interest from
researchers and the public.
at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the
Humanities. Posters on the impact of mentalization on
troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were
presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall.
5.1. Workshops and Conferences Organized by the LCIS > 22-24 January 2010: International Workshop on
Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis:
Causes, impact and Solutions
University College Cork
Keynotes:
Galway)
Transformation
Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the
Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation
Keynotes:
> 21-22 October 2010: Research Forum on
Innovation and Valorization: Bridges between
Universities and Business
Keynote speakers:
KU Leuven),
aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in
the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)
Keynote speakers:
aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century
• Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin, KU Leuven):
Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions
• Violet Soen (KU Leuven): Dutch nobles and
the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)
> December 2-3, 2010: International Workshop
on "Current Issues in Economic Geography"
Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove, Karolien De Bruyne,
André De Coster and Karen Crabbé)
Keynote speakers:
• Prof. Dr. Marius Brülhart (University of Lausanne)
Events5
Literatures
Irish Literatures (E. D’hoker, S. Eggermont, R. Ingelbien,
H. Schwall)
Keynote speakers:
Research, University of Limerick)
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies).
> 1-3 September 2011: Arrivals and Departures
Biennial Conference of EFACIS, the European Federation
of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the
University of Salford, UK
in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)
and EFACIS (H. Schwall)
and Future
of Anglicists in Higher Education, at University College
Brussels, Belgium: in cooperation with the Royal Academy
of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse, R. Ingelbien,
H. Schwall)
(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from
1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit
Brussel (University College Brussels), Belgium.
Celebrating the association’s 30th anniversary, the inter -
disciplinary conference Facing Present, Past and Future
wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with
the challenges they are faced with in the research fields
of English Linguistics, English Literature, Translation and
Interpretation Studies and ELT. Interdisciplinary links
between these disciplines were particularly encouraged.
> 23-24 June 2011: International Workshop on
Recent Issues in European Economic Integration
and EU Enlargement
with H.U.Brussel (Research Group Globalization,
Innovation and Competition) and INFER
Keynotes:
the University of Geneva)
Venue: Campus of H.U.Brussel
the Economic History of Globalization
Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)
Keynote speakers:
• Prof. Dr. Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)
• Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universität Berlin),
• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister (Universität Münster)
• Prof. Dr. Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)
> 19 November 2011: Workshop on Migration in
Europe: the Roma: a comparative study
Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)
This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants
from more than twelve countries, among which Ireland,
and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe.
Aim of the workshop was to develop a European
research project about the Roma & Travellers.
> 30 November 2011: Doctoral Seminar by Prof.
Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London, Royal
Holloway; Holocaust Research Center) on the
literature of testimony and mentalization
‘The Public Secret’: Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishiguro’s
Never Let Me Go (2005)
Location: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, KU Leuven
Organized by the LCIS (H. Schwall)
Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that
the term ‘trauma’ is overused. Cathy Caruth reminds us
that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself, or the
distortion of the event in memory but “consists, rather,
solely, in the structure of its experience or reception:
the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the
time, but only belatedly, in its repeated possession of the
one who experiences it”. This paper explores the way
that these ‘structures of trauma’ extend beyond ‘trauma’
proper into an array of other discourses.
5.2. Conferences on Irish Studies in which LCIS Members Participated • D'hoker, E. (2010). George Egerton's 'Feminine
Umwerthung Aller Werthe". Women Writers of
the Fin de Siècle. London, 28-29 June 2010.
• D'hoker, E. (2010). The Formal Ambivalence of
the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross. Ireland,
Modernism and Fin de Siècle. Limerick,
16-17 April 2010.
International Conference on the Short Story in English.
Toronto, 16-19 June 2010.
Women Novelists Conference;. London, 14-16 April.
• D'hoker, E. (2011). 1. "That curious borderland
between modernism and the middlebrow: the short
fiction of Elizabeth Bowen". The Popular Imagination
and the Dawn of Modernism: Middlebrow Writing
1890-1930. London, 14-16 September 2011.
• D'hoker, E. (2011). Divergent Figures of the Author in
Mary Lavin's Short Fiction. The Figure of the Author
in the Short Story in English. Angers, 8-9 April 2011.
• Ingelbien, R. (2011), ‘“Men who did not exist?”
Irish tourists and the definition of a national élite.’
Irish Elites: 17th SSNCI conference. University of
Liverpool, 30June-1July 2011.
bewogen tijden: Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)
Nederlanden, 1828-1840.’ ‘Profiter selon ses besoins
avec ce household common sense’: De receptie van
buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen
sinds 1700. Carl von Ossietzky Universität
Oldenburg, 23-24 September 2011.
Feminism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady
Morgan’s Representation of Women Religious in
The Princess; or the Béguine (1835)’. Female religious
on the British Isles: Interactions with the Continent.
2010 HWRBI conference, Leuven, 1-4 September 2010.
• Ingelbien,R. (2010), ‘Irish Travel Writing: Changing the
Subject’. Irish Literatures: Old and New Knowledges.
2010 IASIL conference, NUI Maynooth, 26-30 July
2010.
Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Ireland.’
Ireland: Arrivals and Departures. 8th EFACIS conference.
University of Salford, 1-3 September 2011.
• Schwall, H. (2010), “Faith and Family in W. Trevor’s
Short Stories” IASIL Conference, University of
Maynooth, 27/07/2010.
Feministen: 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuur”: Centrum
voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse
Academie van België voor de Wetenschappen en
Kunsten, 09/11/2010.
PhD seminar, KU Leuven, 10/09/2010.
• Schwall, H. (2010), “Three forms of Responsibility in
Brian Friel’s ‘The Home Place’”. SOFEIR conference,
Université de Nantes, 12/03/2010.
the individual on the basis on contemporary
psychoanalysis” Conference on New Aspects of the
Fin de siècle, University of Limerick, 14/04/2010.
• Schwall, H. (2011), “The stranger in the self:
short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doyle”
Université Lille III, 16.02 2011
• Schwall, H. (2011), “New Trends in Irish Literature”.
Università de Torino, 15-16 April
• Schwall, H. (2011), “Dealing with trauma in
Contemporary Irish fiction: Seamus Deane, Anne
Enright and Colum McCann”. Universität Wuppertal,
lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating
Ireland, 7 June
Enright”, AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of
Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May.
• Schwall, H. (2011), “In the slipstream of daily marvels:
the grammar of Vona Groarke”, EFACIS conference,
University of Salford, 3 September.
5.3. International PhD Seminars The LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for
PhD-students in Irish studies, in close cooperation
with EFACIS.
Developments in Irish literature, history and culture
from 1890s to 1990s" organized by the LCIS in
cooperation with EFACIS (Elke D’hoker, Raphaël
Ingelbien, Hedwig Schwall)
This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral
seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration
with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in
Europe. The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students
in Irish Studies from different European countries the
opportunity:
other students from a wide variety of backgrounds
• to improve their methodological skills
• to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects
of Irish culture, history and society
• to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas
and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies.
The programme consists of:
• theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss
approach on the basis of selected texts
• student papers: presentation of participants' research
projects followed by discussion
research with participating scholars
The programme is built around a central theme so as to
ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas
across the different disciplines. The 2010 theme will be
the developments in Irish culture, literature and society
from one fin-de-siècle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s).
In the course of this ‘long’ century, Ireland saw
considerable changes in terms of politics, religion,
economics and social organisation as well as in the
different domains of its culture. We therefore invite those
students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect
of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar.
There were twenty-three participants from Italy, Spain,
the UK, Ireland, France and Belgium.
Plenaries:
Ireland and Cultural Change: Anne Enright and the
Politics of Mourning'
• John Kelly (Oxford University): 'Crisis and continuity
in modernist Irish literature' 'Interculturality /
Comparing Ireland' (Raphaël Ingelbien, KU Leuven)
'Gender and narrative theory' (Elke D'hoker,
KU Leuven)
migrant writing: George Egerton's The Wheel of God
(1898)'
Nouvelle - Paris3): 'Dominant themes in the Ulster-
Scots revival'.
approaches to research'
5.4. Research Seminars in Irish Studies On a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research
seminars in Irish Studies. Topics covered in 2010-2011
include:
• 'Histoire croisée and transnational history' (Kaat Wils,
KU Leuven)
• 'Irish Theatre: Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger'
(Shaun Richards, Staffordshire University)
KU Leuven)
KU Leuven)
5.5. Student Presentations in Irish Studies • Verena Commins (NUI Galway) 'Contentment is
wealth: conceptualising traditional Irish music as
a culture economy'
'Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia'.
• Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) 'Representations
of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry'
• Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) 'From
John McGahern to Claire Keegan: resistance to
postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction'
• Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) 'Translation
of Italian works in Ireland'
• Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) 'Consumer
culture, advertising and literature in Ireland,
1848-1921'
representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922'.
• Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) 'The landed estate in
nineteenth-century Ireland'
• Mehdi Ghassemi (Université de Lille III), 'John Banville:
beyond a postmodern consciousness, a Lacanian
perspective'
and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann'
• Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) 'Social realism
in the short fiction of Mary Lavin'
• Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) 'The Fin de Siècle
short story by women writers'
• Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) 'Death and dying
in the modern Irish novel'
• Thérèse Cullen (Queen’s University Belfast) 'The role
of symbol and ritual in the representations of
St Patrick on his Feast Day '
• Melanie White (Université Paris III) 'The renewal of the
Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets
from Northern Ireland'
translation and staging in Ireland'
• Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)
'Class, ethnicity and participation: Irish politics in
the West Riding, c. 1850-1925'
• Marie Violaine Louvet (Université Paris III) 'Ireland and
the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009'
5.6. PhD network NUI Galway – Lille III – KU Leuven – University of Limerick > 22 – 23 June 2011: LCIS Research Seminar in Irish
Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway
– Lille III – University of Limerick
• Serena Moschietto (MA student, NUI Galway):
"Emily Lawless's Grania: between Romantic Tradition
and The New Woman Fiction"
• Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student, KU Leuven):
“The contribution of women writers to the birth
of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)”.
• Shelley Troupe (PhD student, NUI Galway):
"Language and Migration in Druid Theatre's
Production of Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire."
• Antonella Trombatore (PhD student, University
Charles de Gaulle III): "Humans Encounter Nature
in McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun"
• Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student, University Charles de
Gaulle III-KU Leuven): "Trauma and the Lacanian
subject of narration in Banville's Birchwood"
• Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student, KU Leuven):
“Shakespeare and Irish Romanticism”
NUI Limerick): “Memoirs from below - Irish migrant
experiences in Britain”
Singers, 'The Liberties', and the Mapping of Oral
History"
• Simon Hierle (PhD student, University Charles de
Gaulle, Lille III): “Developing a Methodology to Study
the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Church”
5.7. Lectures > 2 March 2011: Prof Werner Huber (Universität Wien)
on Trauma on the Irish Screen: Demythologizing Ireland
on the Screen.
Cork) on Better without the ladies: Women and the Royal
Irish Academy, 1785-1985.
Identity” in the Promotion room, University Halls,
“Ireland Day” at KU Leuven.
> 25 October 2011: Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni
Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway): “The construction
of a Gaelic identity”
October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was
offered by Sean O’ Dubhghaill (IMMRC/ Interculturalism,
Migration and Minorities Research Centre & LCIS)
H.E. Tom Hanney, Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom
of Belgium, gave a lecture in the series Ambassador’s
Lectures at KU Leuven: “Culture and Identity” in the
Promotion room, University Halls, on May 4, 2011.
This was preceded by an introduction to the
relationships between Ireland and the Catholic
University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor.
Since the sixteenth century, many Irish students
found their way to Leuven; nowadays such “student
mobility” is even further facilitated by the Erasmus
Programme. He also explained that, apart from
housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, the
academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland
in Europe, this prestigious institute offers state of
the art conference facilities, a great garden and
58 rooms for guests.
of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first
century, which was followed by the Ambassador’s
fascinating attempt to define Irish culture.
Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell
Ireland were the historic tensions between the four
provinces and thirty-two counties, which are now
expressed in mild forms of rivalries, such as in
hurling.
revolutions in Europe, with the Easter Rebellion of
1916 as one of the most striking ones. The great
famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest
of Irish history. Before the famine, Ireland had a
population of around eight million people. 50 years
later, only four million remained. The rest emigrated
or starved (around one million died). Mr Hanney
further explained some aspects of the differences
between Protestants and Catholics, the clashes
between their identities and the following peace
talks and agreements. Another part of Irish culture
is of course the Gaelic language, estimated to be
spoken by around 40.000 people on a daily basis.
The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing
on some big names in Irish literature; apart from
its four Nobel Prize winners, W.B. Yeats, George
Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus
Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and
Oscar Wilde.
www.kuleuven.be/english/ambassador_lectures/
archive/10-11/Lecture.T.H.-Ireland.pdf
5.8. Expertise
Ó Cléirigh Institute (dir. John McCafferty and Edel
Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment
of the archives, manuscripts and library of the Irish
Franciscans. In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin
between November 15 and 19, 2011, for a research audit
of the early modern Louvain archive material.
The archives of Saint Anthony’s college in Louvain have
an eventful history. Transferred to Rome during the French
Revolution, they were brought to Dublin about 1870.
The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years.
Recently most of the archives have been transferred from
the friars’ study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives.
The ‘Louvain archives’ in Dublin are a mixture of lecture
notes, loose letters by individual Franciscans and
– especially – the ‘institutional’ archives of Saint
Anthony’s college. The content is very diverse: minutes of
meetings, permissions to beg, important correspondence
about the Jansenist controversy, along with receipts of
the laundress and the local grocery store.
There are financial documents about the rebuilding
of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important
1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless
disciplinary problems with students.
fascinating opportunities for further research and the
Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough
arrangement and description. Several other scholars
will participate in the assessment of other parts of
the collection in the months to come.
The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the
Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt. Invited by the
Mícheál O Cléirigh Institute (University College Dublin),
Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library
of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)
both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in
Killiney. His stay, from 16 to 20 January 2012, turned out
to be very rewarding. He did his research for a project,
financed by the Mellon Foundation.
The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated
in a new project application which should allow the
researchers of the Mícheál O Cléirigh Institute to do more
in-depth research in the Franciscan materials; if they will
get the necessary metadata, they will provide a wealth
of books and archivalia for further exploration.
Winter-Spring 2012" on Printing in the Southern
Netherlands in the early modern period.
• On 16 December 2011: H. Schwall served as
external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka
Doljanin, Anne Fogarty (sup.) The Figure of the
Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John
McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers.
• H. Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011
for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork.
She is also on the board of several Irish Studies
journals, like Estudios irlandeses, Studi irlandesi,
Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI; she is a reader for
Cork UP and the IRCHSS.
• After having been a member of the Editorial Board of
Program: Electronic library and information systems
from 1984-2010, and Chairman from 2001-2010,
Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board
of LIBER Quarterly.
Ireland Day at the Royal Academy, Brussels with Prof. Dr Nicolas Canny, Prof. Dr Claire Connolly, Prof. Dr Hedwig Schwall
H.E. Mr Tom Hanney, H.E. Mr Brian Nason, Mr Barney Devine (Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)
Prof. Dr Jan Van Hove, Malachy Vallely, Prof. Dr Mark Eyskens
• Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels,
Centrum voor Europese Cultuur, 9 November 2010
(organisation: CEC with LCIS)
and H.E. Mr Tom Hanney, Ambassador.
• Introduction: Hedwig Schwall, General Director
Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
• Prof. Dr. Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland
in Europe): “Changing the political architecture in
Ireland: post-agreement developments North
LCIS): “Het einde van de Keltische Tijger?
Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisis.”
• Barney Devine (NICTT, Northern Ireland Centre for
Trauma Transformation): History, Trauma and Therapy
• Prof. Dr. Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff):
“Neither here nor there: Ireland under the Union.”
• Prof. Dr. Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway, President of
the Royal Irish Academy): “Ireland and Europe,
1600-1750.”
hermieten en feministen: vijftien eeuwen Ierse
Literatuur.”
KU Leuven/LCIS)
5.9. Cultural Activities The Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership
with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with
the Embassy of Ireland. To this end, the centre aims
to regularly invite Irish writers, drama and music
performances, exhibitions et al.
with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, hopes to
play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in
Europe and beyond, through EFACIS, Celtic Studies,
the Irish Film Institute and other networks.
• On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen
organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on
contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology
and the wider public. At 8.30 p.m. the Nadar
Ensemble performed 'a sensitive number for the
laydeez' (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK,
Naamsestraat Leuven.
the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in
Ireland on institutions, ensembles, festivals, composers
with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in
Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano.
• 19 May 2011: Lecture by Shane O’Toole, at the
opening of an exhibition, called New Irish Architecture/
Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in
Museum M in Leuven.
• 26 November 2010: Lecture by Prof. Dr. Fran O’
Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings
by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha
• 19 July 2011: Poetry reading by Mary O’Malley in
the Central Library, Reading Room, with reception
afterwards.
Rybin: “The Other Woman”, the Belgian premiere
of Nico Muhly's 'The Adulteress' as well as songs
of Schumann, Liszt, Coward and arias of Lehar and
Debussy; With poetry by Mary O’Malley performed
in the Pieter de Somer Aula.
• 23 July 2011: Paintings and Printing presses:
Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour
of Antwerp, the highlight of which is the Plantyn
Moretus Museum.
Mesen, Peace Park and Tower)
• 22 October 2011: 'a sensitive number for the
laydeez' by Jennifer Walshe: By the Nadar Ensemble,
with video; organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen
(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and
ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM: 'International Society
for Contemporary Music').
by Maurice Fitzpatrick: screening with introduction
on the role education played in the formation of
a new generation of musicians, writers, politicians
and journalists.
Morrissey’s poetry in the Brussels Metro. This is a
project of EUNIC on European poetry. EUNIC is the
European Union of National Institutions for Culture.
In cooperation with the Goethe Institut, the Instituto
Cervantes, the Alliance Française, the British Council
and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, a poet
was chosen from each country who had written on
the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind.
A short poem of each poet was translated from the
original into Dutch and French, and the LCIS was
asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland/
Northern Ireland. Our choice was Sinéad Morrissey’s
“In Belfast”. So during the month of September,
some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations
were replaced with this Northern Irish poet’s work
that was translated by Raphaël Ingelbien and Hedwig
Schwall.
Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr. Eve O'Kelley,
director of the Irish Music Information Centre, on new
music in Ireland (institutions, ensembles, festivals,
composers); Mary Dullea presented a sample section
of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano.
• 24 October 2011 Anne Frank’s Diaries by the Opera
Theatre Company Ireland.
> Royal Irish Academy,
Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed
researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from
all over Ireland. This meeting was a follow-up on the
meetings between the Leuven Centre and University
Management at TCD, UCD and at the general hearing at
the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009. This seminar,
hosted by the Academy, provided the Leuven Irish
Studies programme directors with the opportunity to
meet with scholars in Ireland.
Gathering members from all Belgian universities at
the LCIS, the Centre wants to bring about synergies
between Belgian and Irish universities. This is one level
of cooperation, but as the LCIS’ international network
is essential to its work, the cooperation intends to
internationalize further.
International Network for Economic Research
INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to
organize its international economic events. In September
2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER.
> Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF
Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care
for Children and Adolescents, Patrick Luyten is Adjunct
Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center,
New Haven (USA), Visiting Professor at the Research
Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health
Psychology at University College London and member
of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results
Subcommittee of the International Research Board of
the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)
> Strategic Cooperation with IASIL
with IASIL. The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference.
> Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS
As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set
itself we briefly want to present the organisation.
Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS.
Networking6
Prof. Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven), Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nason and Mr Seamus Heaney
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)
The European Federation of Associations and
Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from
a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies
from nine universities (Braga, Leuven, Lille, London,
Madrid, Paderborn, Paris, Reims, Wolverhampton)
in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a
European dimension. The approach initially adopted
was to create the opportunity for the establishment
of a meaningful network and exchange of experience
by organising conferences in Centres of Irish
Studies across Europe.
Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Finland, France,
Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and UK.
The membership consists of international
associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies
Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish
Studies), national associations (e.g. SOFEIR,
Société Française d’Etudes Irlandaises), regional
associations (e.g. NEICN, the North-East Irish
Culture Network), Centres (e.g. the Centre
for Celtic Studies in Turin, the Centres for
Irish Studies in Aberdeen, A Coruña, Dalarna,
Debrecen, Pécs, Prague, Wuppertal, Vienna etc.)
as well as individuals.
interest in, and support for, the expansion of Irish
Studies throughout Europe.
aspects of society, culture and literature of the
Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Irish
diaspora within the humanities and social sciences
(psychology, political sciences, sociology, law,
economics).
1. organizes biennial conferences (1998 Université
Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille (1998); consecutively in
Paris, Aarhus, Minho, Gotheborg, Seville, Vienna
and Salford (2011)
lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across
Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)
as much material available to scholars in all
countries
research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe,
a multidisciplinary series which consists of
selected papers from EFACIS conferences,
but which is also open to other monographs,
published by WVT: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag
Trier (Germany) www.wvttrier.de
access journal in which EFACIS members
can publish. It also wants to congratulate
the Spanish and Italian colleagues with
their electronic journals
networks and targets countries where Irish
studies is weak or almost non-existent
5. The Irish Itinerary
Itinerary. This, on the one hand, creates the
opportunity for Iris

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