Research units

University of Antwerp
Faculty of Arts, Literature Department, Theatre and Film studies

VANHOUTTE Kurt - Principal investigator
JONCKHEERE Evelien - Postdoc WP2: Magic Lantern in Popular Entertainment | General B-magic project administrator
LENK Sabine - Postdoc WP1: The Magic Lantern, the Catholic Church and the Good Citizen
ENGELEN Leen - Postdoc WP2: The Uses of the Magic Lantern in Scenography

University of Antwerp
Faculty of Arts, Department of History

VAN DAMME Ilja - Principal investigator
LOOCKX Kristof - Postdoc WP2: The Lantern Projector and Public Lectures: Actors and Their Motives, 1870-1920
BUELENS-TERRYN Margo - PhD WP2: B-Magic in Space: Mapping of Lantern Infrastructure and its Socio-technological Context

KU Leuven
Faculty of Arts, History Department

- Principal investigator
- Postdoc WP1: Between Instruction and Delight: the Magic Lantern in the Late 19th-century and Early 20th-century Belgian Visual Media Landscape
- PhD WP1: Education through Images. The Magic Lantern in Belgian schools, 1880-1940

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Université Libre de Bruxelles
Faculté de Lettres, Traduction et Communication (LTC) - Arts du spectacle

- Principal investigator
LENK Sabine - Postdoc WP1: The Religious and the Spiritual: the Magic Lantern in the Hands of the Freemasons
- PhD WP3: Emotions on Demand: Structures of Sentiment in Lantern Series and their Performance

THEA | Theatricality and the Real

Université Libre de Bruxelles
Faculté de Lettres, Traduction et Communication (LTC) - Arts du spectacle

- Principal investigator
- Postdoc WP4: The Magic Lantern Experience: Mapping Cultural Exchanges between Slide-producing Countries and Belgium
DE WEERDT Anse - PhD WP4: Projecting the Other. Colonial Representations and Missionary Propaganda in Belgian Magic Lantern Culture