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De kost van de maaltijden en de culinaire diplomatie van drie Belgische koningen, 1845-1914
No full textBased on archives of the Brussels royal palace, this article traces the expenditure on the ordinary and special meals of three Belgian kings between 1845 and 1914. Two charts structure the article: the cost of food and the number of guests. Both reveal surprisingly sharp oscillations. The relationship between the two (i.e., the cost per meal and per year) shows the highly varying quality of the court food. The bulk of the expenditure pertained to the daily meals that can be described as ‘conservatively´ luxurious’. Special occasions involved the so-called culinary diplomacy that was activated when the kings ascended the throne (1831, 1865 and 1909) but lowered afterwards. However, in the 1840s and 1870s, the plans of Leopold I (international relations) and Leopold II (the Congo) led to a sharp increase in gala dinners, buffets and luncheons. This came to an end in 1880, when savings severely curtailed the cost of food, the cooks’ wage cost, and the number of diners. The article sheds new light not only on palace cuisine, financial concerns and gastrodiplomacy, but also on the position of the monarchy in modern Europe.
Vorstinnen voor het voetlicht
No full textReview of Femke Deen & Ineke Huysman (samenst.), Moeders des vaderlands. De vrouwen die de Nederlanden vormden (Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2024, 303 pp., ill.)
The enduring political influence of a Netherlandish princess
No full textReview of Margreet Brandsma, Tussen twee dynastieën. Margaretha van Bourgondië (1374-1441), gravin van Henegouwen, Holland en Zeeland, Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen,181 (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2022, 304 pp.)
Stedelijke propaganda voor een Spaanse prinses
No full textReview of Dagmar H. Eichberger, ed., A spectacle for a Spanish Princess. The Festive Entry of Joanna of Castile into Brussels (1496), Burgundica 35 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, 440 p., ill.)
Constructing Autism: Norming Thought through Mathematics, Masculinity, Whiteness and Fascism
No full textThis paper brings together neurodiversity studies with the notion of epistemic violence to form a theoretical framework to further understand and discuss Edith Sheffer’s findings on the construction of Autism as a diagnostic concept in Nazi Vienna: the Nazi Regime distinguished between worthy Autistic lives and unworthy Autistic lives, resulting in frameworks and stereotypes that are in place to this day. This project is of five intertwined dimensions: A) This paper uses the framework of epistemic violence to shine light on the construction of Autism as a diagnostic notion in Nazi Vienna. B) It brings together neurodiversity, epistemic violence and Sheffer’s historical study to further understand the interwovenness of different forms of violence with one another. C) It discusses stereotypes and conventional frameworks surrounding Autism with regards to the forms of gendered exclusion they entail and reinforce. D) I draw from critical studies of Western Mathematics to shine light on the interwovenness of this image of thought with masculine coded images surrounding Autism. E) Bringing these findings and movements together, I open up the question of whether there is an epistemic afterlife to fascism
Krisis Statement of Solidarity with the Student Protests in the Netherlands and Elsewhere
No full textKrisis Statement of Solidarity with the Student Protests in the Netherlands and ElsewhereKrisis Statement of Solidarity with the Student Protests in the Netherlands and Elsewher
Approaching an Urban Night Space Through a \u27Virtual\u27 Rhythmanalysis: Public Spaces, Spatio-Temporal Appropriations, Representations, and Online Live Streams
No full textThis paper presents an attempt at a \u27virtual rhythmanalysis of an urban night space. Rhythmanalysis, as presented by Henri Lefebvre and Catherine Régulier, is a critical practical-theoretical approach to examining the urban space and its modes of temporal production. Across the globe, 24-hour urban lifecycles are increasingly valued in the planning, development, and management of urban districts and spaces. But how does the night affect urban space, and how can we approach it methodically? Utilizing the emergent Lefebvrian rhythmanalysis framework, the paper examines how a public space is (re)produced night after night through spatial and temporal appropriations of the space through the shifting rhythmic constellations of embodied practices and materialities. The paper utilizes screens and online live-camera streams to examine the night space, shifting the rhythmanalysis\u27 original phenomenological-hermeneutic basis towards postphenomenology and mediating visual technologies in the experience of space. The emergence of new audiovisual materials extends our understanding of what the city \u27is\u27 and how it can be experientially approached. From a postphenomenological perspective, human-technology relationships are transformed in different ways using audiovisual technologies. Together with addressing the possibilities and challenges of shifting the Lefebvrian `lenses\u27 to a virtual setting, the rhythmanalysis of the urban night space reveals the interplay between strong and weak rhythms and their diurnal oscillation, and the polyrhythmicities of the intersecting flows, bodies, and materialities of the space
Cities by Night
No full textParis is known as the ‘city of light’; New York has been nicknamed ‘the city that never sleeps’. These monikers hint at how nighttime is integrally connected to our understanding of cities. Yet this connection has been under-researched and under-theorised. This thematic issue will explore what philosophy of the city can offer to the nascent field of night studies, and vice versa
Verkrachting verbeeld(t). Toepassingen van beelden van seksueel geweld ten tijde van de Spaanse furie in Antwerpen (1576)
No full textSeksueel geweld was fundamenteel in de beeldvorming van de Spaanse Furie (1576) tijdens de Nederlandse Opstand (1566-1609). Toch bleef dit onderwerp vaak onderbelicht in de literatuur. De casus van Frans Hogenbergs (1535-1590) prenten biedt een inkijk in de gelaagde manier waarop beelden van verkrachting gepercipieerd en benut werden in de zestiende eeuw. Dit onderzoek zal aantonen hoe de allegorie van de verkrachte vrouw dienst deed als symbolic system
Nervositeit en moderniteit aan de Duitse universiteit. Die akademische Frau en het mannelijk zelfbeeld in de late negentiende eeuw
No full textIn 1897 verzamelde Arthur Kirchhoff meningen van Duitse hoogleraren over vrouwelijke studenten aan de universiteit. De professoren prezen hun vlijt. Dit compliment impliceerde echter een gebrekkig zelfstandig denkvermogen en vatbaarheid voor zenuwziekten. Hiermee presenteerden de hoogleraren zichzelf als onafhankelijke denkers met zenuwen die de prikkels van de moderne universiteit aankonden