Master of European Studies:
Transnational and Global Perspectives (MAES)

• Postal address:

  • Institute for International and European Policy
  • Parkstraat 45 - Bus 3602
  • Office: A 04.55
  • BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.32.51
• Fax: 016/32.30.88
• E-mail: Stephan.Keukeleire@soc.kuleuven.be

Research

Jean Monnet Professor in European Integration and Foreign Policy, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges)
Stephan Keukeleire's research focuses on foreign policy analysis in general, and on the foreign policy of the European Union in particular. Within the former, he researches structural foreign policy and traditional foreign policy; structural conflict prevention; foreign policy, human security and societal security; foreign policy and globalization and theoretical approaches towards foreign policy. Within the latter, he analyzes the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) of the EU, European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP/CESDP), EU foreign policy and the first pillar (European Community), EU structural policy and structural conflict prevention, flexibility, directorates and contact groups, and explanations for and deconstructions of EU foreign policy.

Publications

http://soc.kuleuven.be/iieb/bib.php?name=Keukeleire&init=S

• Postal address

  • MoSa (Modernity and Society 1800-2000)
  • Department of History K.U.Leuven
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3307
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.49.73
• Fax: 016/32.49.93
• E-mail: patrick.pasture@arts.kuleuven.be

Research

Patrick Pasture is Associate Professor of History at the University of Leuven, where he co-ordinates the RU Modernity and Society 1800-2000 (MoSa), and Visiting Professor in the European Program of Drew University in Brussels. His research and publications deal with comparative and transnational history, in particular European labour and the social history of religion. His teaching includes courses on global history and the history of cultural exchange. He has been a Visiting Fellow/ Scholar of the IISG in Amsterdam, the Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), and the University of Pennsylvania. His research mainly deals with comparative and transnational labor history and the social history of religion. Books include the monograph Histoire du syndicalisme chrétien international. La difficile recherche d’une troisième voie, L’Harmattan, 1999 and the edited volumes, with Karel Davids and Greta Devos, Changing Liaisons. The Dynamics of Social Partnership in Twentieth Century West-European Democracies, PIE-Peter Lang, 2007; with Lex Heerma van Voss and Jan De Maeyer, Between Cross and Class. Comparative Histories of Christian Labour in Europe 1840-2000, Peter Lang, 2005 and, with Michel Pigenet and Jean-Louis Robert, L’Apogée du syndicalisme. Les syndicalismes en Europe occidentale pendant les Trente Glorieuses, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005. He is currently working on a long-term history of Christendom in Western Europe and North America 1650-2000. Patrick Pasture is a member of the editorial boards of the Revue Belge d’Histoire Contemporaine and of Labor History (Routledge). Since 2007 he is also Chair of the Network Religion of the European Social Science History Conferences.

Publications

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=U0016973

• Postal address

  • Rectoraat KULeuven
  • Naamsestraat 22 - bus 5000
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.40.75
• Fax: 016/32.41.88
• E-mail: filip.abraham@rec.kuleuven.be or filip.abraham@econ.kuleuven.be

Research

Filip Abraham obtained a Ph.D in economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA in 1987 after completing his undergraduate and masters’ studies at the KU Leuven in Belgium.

Currently, he is vice-president of the humanities and  social sciences at KU Leuven and a professor in international and European economics and business at KU Leuven, the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and Rochester-Bern Executive MBA. Previously he was the dean of the faculty of economics and applied economics at KU Leuven. Other professional experience includes positions at the International Monetary Fund and the University of Michigan.

Filip Abraham’s expertise lies in European business and European integration. He is the author of several books and articles and has lectured extensively on those topics. For several years  he has worked as an expert for the European Commission in various research contracts. He has been advising companies, public and private institutions.

Publications

http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/ew/academic/intecon/abraham/cv_juli2005.pdf

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Literatuurwetenschap: Nederlandse Literatuurstudie
  • Blijde Inkomststraat 5 - bus 3311
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.48.45
• E-mail: elke.brems@arts.kuleuven.be

Research

Dutch literature, literary history, poetry and prose, 20th century to trade and integration.

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Institute for International and European Policy
  • Parkstraat 45 - bus 3602
  • Office B 04.28
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.30.88
• E-mail: hans.bruyninckx@soc.kuleuven.be

Research

Hans Bruyninckx's research emphasizes the influence of the various globalization processes on the global governance of environmental problems and sustainable development. Particular attention is paid to underlying theoretical and conceptual frameworks. The translation and testing of innovative and critical social theories (such as network and flows perspectives) to multi-level governance arrangements of global environmental and sustainable development issues are at the core of this team's research efforts. His recent research includes specific expertise for the role of China in environmental governance.

Publications

http://soc.kuleuven.be/iieb/bib.php?name=Bruyninckx&init=H

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Business and Economics
  • Research Center of Economic History
    
  • Naamsestraat 69 - bus 3565
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.68.00
• Fax 016/32.67.96
• E-mail: erik.buyst@econ.kuleuven.be

Research

Economic History, Business History, History of European Integration, History of Economic Thought.

Publications

http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/fetew/medewerker/pers_publication.aspx?PID=25

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Cultural History since 1750
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3307
  • Office 05.12
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.49.78
• E-mail: raf.debont@arts.kuleuven.be

Research

• History of science (19th and 20th C)
• Science and culture
• History of evolutionary theory
• History of biology
• History of field work in the life sciences

Publications

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=U0035048

• Postal address

  • KADOC
  • Vlamingenstraat 39 - bus 3003
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.35.00
• E-mail: jan.demaeyer@kadoc.kuleuven.be

Research

Jan De Maeyer is Director of KADOC – Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture, and Society and Professor of Church History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He was Visiting Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris (2003) and the University of Freiburg (CH) (2007).
His publications deal with different aspects of the relation between religion, culture and society in the 19th and 20th century. Recent publications include, as editor (with Thomas Coomans), The Revival of Medieval Illumination/ Renaissance de l’enluminure médiévale. Nineteenth-Century Belgium Manuscripts and Illuminations from a European Perspective, KADOC-Artes 8, Leuven University Press, 2007; (with Lex Heerma van Voss & Patrick Pasture, Between Cross and Class. Comparative Histories of Christian Labour in Europe 1840-2000 (Peter Lang, 2005); (with Luc Verpoest) Gothic Revival: Religion, Architecture and Style in Western Europe 1815-1914, KADOC-Artes 5, Leuven, 2000. He is actively involved in the international research project The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Church, State and Society in Northern Europe, c. 1780-c.1920 for which he co-ordinates the team on ‘Material Reform’. 
He is member of the editorial board of the Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (since 2007), the Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique (sedert 2007), Trajecta. the Tijdschrift voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving in de Nederlanden (sedert 2000) en The True Principles. The Journal of the Pugin Society (sedert 2006).

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Literary Relations and Post/national Identities
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3311
  • Office B 04.21
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.48.76
• E-mail: theo.dhaen@arts.kuleuven.be

Research

• Modernism
• Postmodernism
• Postcolonialism
• Popular Culture
• Prose Genres
• Comparative American Studies
• European Identity Studies

Publications

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=U0040631

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Literary Studies: Text and Interpretation
  • Office: 04.23
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3311
  • BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.48.78
• Fax: 016/32.50.68
• E-mail: Anke.Gilleir@arts.kuleuven.be

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Modernity & Society 1800-2000
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3307
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.49.74
• Fax: 016/32.49.93
• E-mail: idesbald.goddeeris@arts.kuleuven.be

Research

• Migration history
• History of the Cold War
• Historical culture in Central and Eastern Europe

Publications

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/items-by-author?author=Goddeeris%2C+Idesbald%3B+U0005862

• Postal address

  • Centre for European Studies
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 5 - bus 3002
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• E-mail: walter.kennes@arts.kuleuven.be

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Institute for International and European Policy
  • Parkstraat 45 - Bus 3602
  • Office: B 04.17
  • BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.31.08
• Fax: 016/32.30.88
• E-mail: bart.kerremans@soc.kuleuven.be

Research

Since October 1999, Associate-Professor of International Relations and American Government at the Instituut voor Internationaal en Europees Beleid (IIEB) at the K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Currently teaches courses on international relations history, international organizations, international political economy, and American government. Was Visiting-Scholar the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University (Washington DC) from January 1998 to January 1999.
Currently conducts research on the external trade policies of the European Union and the United States, and decision-making in this field in general, and on the WTO-related trade relations between the EU and the US in particular. Published in the Journal of World Trade, Journal of World Investment, Regional and Federal Studies, the Journal of Common Market Studies, Governance, and Comparative Political Studies. Also authored, co-authored, and co-edited several books on EU and U.S. decision-making and on EU and US External Trade Policies.

Publications

http://soc.kuleuven.be/iieb/bib.php?name=Kerremans&init=B

Postal address

• KADOC
• Vlamingenstraat 39 - bus 3003
• Office: 01.06
• BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.35.15
• Fax: 016/32.35.00
• E-mail: Emiel.Lamberts@arts.kuleuven.be

Research

Emiel Lamberts is emeritus (full) Professor of Modern History, founder and President of KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture, and Society, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts (1991-1997) and President of the Academia Belgica in Rome (1999-2003).
He publishes mainly on the history of modern political currents, in particular Christian democracy and Conservatism, the relation between religion and society, and the development of the subsidiarity principle. His publications include, as editor, The Black International/ L’Internationale noire 1870-1878, KADOC-Studies 29, Leuven University Press, 2002; Christian Democracy in the European Union 1945-1995, KADOC-Studies 21, Leuven University Press, 1997. He also authored, with Jan Roegiers, Leuven University, 1425-1985, Leuven University Press, 1990 and, with J.C.H. Blom, History of the Low Countries, Berghahn, 2006, 2d edition.

http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/geschiedenis/English/fiches_english/fiche_emiellamberts_englishs.htm

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Law
  • Institute for European Law
  • Tiensestraat 41 - bus 3424
  • BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.51.28 or 016/ 32.54.32
• Fax: 016/32.53.87
• E-mail: koen.lenaerts@law.kuleuven.be

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Literary Relations and Post/national Identities
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3311
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.55.65
• E-mail: nadia.lie@arts.kuleuven.be

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Institute for International and European Policy
  • Parkstraat 45 - Bus 3602
  • Office: A 04.58
  • BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.31.43
• Fax: 016/32.30.88
• E-mail: katlijn.malfliet@soc.kuleuven.be

Research

Katlijn Malfliet is research director at the Institute for International and European Policy. Her research activities deal mainly with the development of post-communist political and legal transition processes in Central and Eastern Europe. She focuses in particular on the competition between two major discourses: the rational traditions of enlightenment (liberalism-socialism) and post-communist identity politics. Furthermore, she studies the impact of internal transition on foreign policy and on the widening of the European Union. She also publishes on institutional developments of the Commonwealth of Independent States and other institutions for regional and international cooperation. In her role of research director Katlijn Malfiet supervises the research on Central and Eastern Europe conducted at the Institute for International and European Policy. She also leads the Chair InBev-Baillet Latour, a programme focused on the relations between the European Union and Russia, and coordinates a Joint European Project with the University of Kazan in Tatarstan (Russia) in the field of International relations and European Policy. She is member of the consortium group of a similar project with the University of Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine).

Publications

http://soc.kuleuven.be/iieb/bib.php?name=Malfliet&init=K

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Theology
  • Research Unit Systematic Theology
  • Sint-Michielsstraat 6 - bus 3102
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.38.30
• Fax: 016/32.38.58
• E-mail: terrence.merrigan@theo.kuleuven.be

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre
  • Parkstraat 45 - bus 3615
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.54.99. or 016/32.60.07
• Fax: 016/32.59.02.
• E-mail: chinglin.pang@soc.kuleuven.be

Research

Anthropology of identity and migration processes: new migrant groups and their identity, transnational social network including human smuggling and trafficking, migration and integration policy.
Cultural globalisation in the urban setting: transnational entrepreneurship, development of ethnic precincts such as Chinatowns in European countries.
Main focus on the Chinese, Japanese and in second instance the Indians in the Belgian/European setting, with attention to main trends in the countries of origin.

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Linguistics: Language and Education
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 7 - bus 3319
  • BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.53.63
• E-mail: Kris.VanDenBranden@arts.kuleuven.be

Research

Kris Van den Branden is a Professor of Linguistics (Interaction in language education policy, Linguistic aspects of ethno-cultural diversity) at the Faculty of Arts of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. At the same university, he is the current director of the Centre for Language and Education. This centre combines research activities with the development of educational tools and the inservice –training of teachers and teacher trainers with regard to (task-based) language teaching. The Centre for Language and Education hosted the first International Conference on Task-based Language Teaching in Leuven 
Kris Van den Branden is also one of the directors of the Flemish government-subsidized Centre for Equity in Education. This Centre supports schools (through a combination of research, development and training activities) into enhancing equity in Flemish education.
Kris Van den Branden’s main research interests have to do with interaction in second language acquisition, the implementation of task-based language teaching, the diffusion of educational innovation and the role of the teacher in language teaching.

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Modernity & Society 1800-2000
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3307
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.49.77
• Fax: 016/32.49.93
• E-mail: leen.vanmolle@arts.kuleuven.be

Research

Leen Van Molle is Professor of Modern Social History.
Her research and publications focus on the history of the European rural society, cooperative banking and financing, gender and feminism, dwelling culture and methodology of Oral History. She is co-director of the European Research Network CORN (Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area), co-president of the AVG/CARHIF (Archive Centre on Women’s History, Brussels)  and member of the scientific commission of  ICAG (Interfaculty Centre For Agrarian History). She recently published, as editor, with Erik Thoen, Rural history in the North Sea area: an overview of recent research, Middle Ages - twentieth century, Corn Series, Brepols, 2006; with Eliane Gubin, Women changing the world: a history of the International council of women 1888-1988, Racine, 2005; with Carmen Sarasúa and Peter Scholliers, Land, shops and kitchens, Corn Series, Brepols, 2005; with Peter Heyrman, Vrouwenzaken-zakenvrouwen: facetten van vrouwelijk zelfstandig ondernemerschap in Vlaanderen, 1800-2000, Museum van de Vlaamse sociale strijd. Bijdragen 18, Gent, 2001.
Leen Van Molle is member of the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis and the Revue Belge d’Histoire Contemporaine.

European social history, 19th and 20th centuries, especially history of agriculture and countryside (cf. CORN www.corn.ugent.be and icag http://www.kuleuven.be/icag www. kuleuven.be/icag), rural credit and lending systems, and gender hi story (cf. Archive Centre for Women's History www.Amazone.be, Infotheek).

Publications

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/items-by-author?author=Van+Molle%2C+Helena%3B+U0014729

• Postal address

  • Institute of Philosophy
  • Centre for ethics, social and political philosophy
  • Kardinaal Mercierplein 2 bus 3200
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.63.20
• Fax: 016/32.63.11
• E-mail: antoon.vandevelde@hiw.kuleuven.be or antoon.vandevelde@econ.kuleuven.be

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3301
  • BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.48.69
• E-mail: Luc.Verpoest@asro.kuleuven.be

Research

• 19th century Architectural Historiography in Belgium
• Architectural magazines in Belgium in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Architectural history 19th and 20th centuries, i.c. 'the Gothic Revival movement (Belgium in the international context, 1830-1914)' and 'Post-avantgarde Modernism and 20th century Traditionalism (Belgium 1930-1945)'
• Theory and History of Bult Heritage Conservation

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Modernity & Society 1800-2000

  • Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3307

  • BE-3000 Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.49.76 or 016/32.50.60
• Fax: 016/32.49.93
• E-mail: Louis.Vos@arts.kuleuven.be
  

Research

Louis Vos is (full) Professor of Modern Political and Social-Cultural History.
His research focuses on the history of nationalism, in particular the Flemish movement, of youth movements and student movements. His teaching also includes the History of Poland, about which he wrote, with Dr. Idesbald Goddeeris, a major history textbook in Dutch. With Kas Deprez he edited Nationalism in Belgium. Shifting Identities, 1780-1995 (Macmmillan, 1997) the only booklength introduction in English to the subject.
From 1996 till 2001 he was the chairman of the History Department at the KU Leuven, where he is now member of the Board Social Facilities for students. From 1993 till 2005 he was President − and since then Vice-President − of the National Research Centre for the Study of War and Contemporary Society (Soma/Ceges) in Brussels. Since 2004 he is a Member of the Management Board of the Royal Museum of the Army (Brussels) and since 2006 also of the Board of Management of the Royal Library (Brussels).  He is a member of the editorial board of Wetenschappelijke Tijdingen, a scientific review devoted to the history of Flemish nationalism. In 1990-91 he was a Visiting Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) and in 1999-2000 an Extraordinary Professor of European Culture at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands).

• history of nationalism (in Europe and Belgium)
• history of student movements and university history
• history of youth movements

Publications

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=U0006769

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Business and Economics
  • International Economics
  • Naamsestraat 69 - bus 3565
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• E-mail: Gerald.Willmann@econ.kuleuven.be

• Postal address

  • Faculty of Law
  • Research Unit International and Foreign Law
  • Tiensestraat 41 - bus 3417
  • BE-3000  Leuven
• Telephone: 016/32.51.22
• Fax: 016/32.54.64
• E-mail: jan.wouters@law.kuleuven.be

Research

• Research Unit International and Foreign Law
• Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
• Human Rights and International Justice