Date: 8 July 2026
Time: 4.30 - 5.30 pm
Location: TBC, Rodestraat 14, 2000 Antwerp (University of Antwerp city campus)
About Melissa Van Drie
Melissa Van Drie is a cultural historian and performance artist interested in sensory and somatic practices of knowledge production. She works on how sound, hearing and listening are important aspects of worldmaking for both humans and nonhumans. Her PhD ( – Paris 3) explored the intersections of science and theatre in the elaboration of nineteenth-century sound media. Subsequent postdocs and grants in Performance Studies and Music, STS, Media Archeology, and Environmental Humanities permitted further research on the roles and regimes of the senses in histories of art, health, food, and multispecies ecologies (Cambridge, U. Copenhagen, EHESS, , U. Maastricht). She is currently the first Orpheus Fellow within the new programme .