Events

Valériane Mistiaen joins the collective exhibition featuring members and alumni of the ULB. Her project Utopie(s) en transit is part of the exhibition.

Irene Gutiérrez and Valériane Mistiaen won best paper awards (categories 'emerging scholar' and 'PhD holder') at the ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference "Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Reflexive Approaches to Migration, Media, and Intercultural Dialogue" at Tallinn University.

The two papers contribute to the IRP17-project, “Re-use of treated wastewater for irrigation and groundwater recharge: environmental impacts and public perception”, funded by VUB Onderzoeksraad Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds (BOF OZR) (2019—2025).

Archibald has earned his PhD with the successful public defense of his thesis, “Disentangling Far-Right Gender Discourses: A Discursive-Theoretical Analysis of Vlaams Belang’s Patriarchal Politics.”

Giacomo successfully completed the public defense of his PhD thesis titled: “Glitches In The Spectacle: Three Articulations of Hybridity and Fictionality in Migration Visual Culture”

On the 20th May, and in the framework of Prof. Kevin Smets’ ERC Reel Borders, we are organizing a public lecture titled "The Aesthetics of Subversion: Resistance at the Borders." This talk will explore the intersection of politics and aesthetics, with a focus on border art and visual production. The lecture will be delivered by Federica Mazzara, a cultural studies scholar from Westminster and a contributor to Minor Keywords of Political Theory, a recently published yet widely referenced text in critical border studies.

The paper 'Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups', co-authored by ECHO co-director prof. dr. Benjamin De Cleen has been announced winner of The 2024 Harrison Prize by the editors of Political Studies, Sage.

Journalism Practice welcomes ECHO researcher prof. dr. Yazan Badran as new member of its editorial board.

ECHO postdoctoral researcher Dr. Omran Shroufi contextualises and analysises the recent Bundestag election results in Germany for the Belgian press agency ‘Belga’ and the website ‘Factcheck.Vlaanderen’.

ECHO researcher prof. dr. Kevin Smets writes about participatory film making and how to guarantee a sustainable "afterlife" of films made in projects, such as our own ERC-funded Reel Borders.