Lectures

Lectures take place on Tuesdays from 19:00 till 20:30. It is not a full-time programme. All lectures are held via Zoom or (at the earliest from 23 March on) in the building of the Faculty of Arts, Auditorium  2 - Franz Cumont, ground floor, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent.

• 9 February 2021:Basic introduction to the Dutch language by Jacques Van Keymeulen (Faculty of Arts)
• 16 February 2021: Rubens or Rembrandt? Art, Politics and the Roots of Belgium and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries by Jonas Roelens (Faculty of Arts)
• 23 February 2021: The Media in Flanders by Sarah Van Leuven (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences)
• 2 March 2021: The Belgian federation: origins, functioning, prospects by Maxime Vandenberghe (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences)
  
• 9 March 2021: The Urban Roots of Medieval Europe: the contribution of the cities of Flanders by Marc Boone (Faculty of Arts)
• 16 March 2021: Polyphonic Music in the Low Countries by Francis Maes (Faculty of Arts)
• 23 March 2021: The position of Flanders in the Belgian Economy by Marc De Clercq (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
• 30 March 2021: Geography and landscapes of the Low Countries by Marc Antrop (Faculty of Sciences)
• 20 April 2021: Dutch Literature and the Visual Arts since 1600 by Lars Bernaerts and Kornee van der Haven (Faculty of Arts)
• 27 April 2021: Ending life and procreating in Flanders and in the Netherlands by Freddy Mortier (Faculty of Arts)
• 4 May 2021: Belgium and its colony Congo by Mathieu Zana Etambala (Faculty of Arts)
• 11 May 2021: Molenbeek (in Brussels): a Low Countries Large City Multicultural Laboratory by Johan Leman (Faculty of Social Sciences, KULeuven)