CURRICULUM VITAE CURRICULUM VITAE Ward Vloeberghs
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CURRICULUM VITAE CURRICULUM VITAE Ward Vloeberghs
CURRICULUM VITAE Ward Vloeberghs I. PERSONALIA First Name : Surname : Email : Nationality : WARD VLOEBERGHS [email protected] BELGIAN II. EDUCATION Since October 2008: 2008 Teaching Assistant at the Dpt. of Political Science & Int. Relations at the University of Louvain (UCL) Since 2005: 2005 PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) « Buildings of Might and Faith: Political Dimensions of Religious Architecture in Contemporary Beirut » October 2002 – October 2004: Master in Political Science, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon. Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en Sciences Politiques (DEA), organised in collaboration with the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). Mémoire (Dir.: dr. JN Ferrié): Sociologie d’une communauté scientifique: le cas des démographes libanais September 2001 – July 2002: Postgraduate Degree in Arabic Studies at the Dutch-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Egypt (NVIC) Advanced courses in writing & reading Egyptian as well as Modern Standard Arabic; selected topics of Egyptian & Arab culture 1999 – 2001: Master in Arabic and Islamic studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (magna cum laude) MA Thesis (in Dutch; dir. Prof. U. Vermeulen): The UN Conference on Minorities (c.q. the Copts) planned in Cairo in 1994: the Perspective of Ruz el-Yûsuf. September 1999 – February 2000: Recipient of a Scholarship from the Socrates Exchange Project to study ‘Arabistik’ at the Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, Hessen (Germany). July 1999: Scholarship from the Flemish Community for a summer course in Modern Hebrew at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 19971997-1999: Bachelor in Arabic and Islamic studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) 1 III. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES 9-10 October 2008 Participant in the Journees d’etudes in Firminy (France), “Architecture et patrimoine: nouvelles approches en histoire contemporaine”. Presentation: Pierres, Piétés et Puissances : l’émergence d’un espace sacré au centre ville de Beyrouth. 10 April 2008: 2008 Convener of the conference L’Egypte face aux bloggeurs: discours et actions for the Centre for Interdisciplinary study of Islam in the Contemporary World, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve. 1212-15 March 2008: 2008 Participant in IX Mediterranean Research Meeting in Montecatini, Italy. Organised by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence. Presentation: The Genesis of a Mosque: Negociating Sacred Space in Downtown Beirut. February – April 2008 2008: 008 Participant in Seminar Series on “Constructivism and International Relations Theory” by Prof. T. BraspenningBalzacq. FUSL, Brussels. 26 November – 2 December 2007 : Participant in IX Doctorales de l’IRMC (Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain). « De la ville et de l’urbain dans le Monde arabe et en Europe. Acteurs, Organisations et Territoires », Hammamet, Tunisia. Presentation: Pierres, Piétés et Puissances : des dimensions politiques de l’architecture religieuse à Beyrouth. August 2007 2007: 007 Research note on “Tariq Ramadan in The Netherlands” for Prof. Gilles Kepel. 1414-30 July 2007: 2007 Research Journey to Lebanon 24 April 2007: 2007 Guest Seminar (with Tine de Betue) Translating Arabic Literature: the case of Mahmoud Darwish for graduate students in Arabic studies. KU Leuven, Belgium. 19 -20 April 2007: 2007 Participant in the Séminaire interuniversitaire de textes arabes organised by and at the Université libre de Bruxelles – ULB. (with JM Mouton as keynote speaker) 17 April 2007: 2007 Research seminar L’architecture religieuse comme phénomène politique: le cas de la “mosquée Hariri” à Beyrouth at the Centre d’étude des Crises et des Conflits Internationaux (CECRI), UCL, Louvain-laNeuve. 23 March 2007: 2007 Participant at the First Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association of Political Science – Communauté française. Presentation : L’anglais ou le choix irrationnel. Facultés universitaires St-Louis (FUSL), Bruxelles. (with Ph. Braud as keynote speaker) 22 March 2007: 2007 Research Seminar Politiques et architectures religieuses à Beyrouth. Perceptions et enjeux at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Islam in the Contemporary World (CISMOC) at the Université catholique de Louvain –UCL. June - July 2006 : « Accompanying Scholar » for a Research Mission to Lebanon. Guiding a group of cross-European post-graduate students in the frame of the Network on Humanitarian Aid (NOHA), supported by the European Commission. 15 June 2006: 2006 Participant at the Second World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES 2) 10-16 June, Amman – Jordan. Presentation: The Jami’ Muhammad al-Amin of Beirut : Form, Function and Meaning. March 2006: 2006 Research Trip to Lebanon (Interviews, data collection) January 2006: ‘Rapporteur’ of MA Thesis by Lise Marcelis, La coopération dans l’action humanitaire. Etude de cas : le camp de réfugiés palestiniens de Ein elHelwé au Sud-Liban, Mémoire de licence en sciences politiques (relations internationales), Janvier 2006, Université catholique de Louvain. June 2005 : Participant at the international colloquium Le suicide offensif en islam, organised by CISMOC in Louvain-la-Neuve. 15 December 2004: Participant at Europe et mondes musulmans. Un dialogue complexe organised by Groupe de Recherche et d’Information sur la Paix (GRIP) at Résidence Palace, Brussels. Presentation on behalf of Prof. A. Aït-Chaalal: Le processus de paix israélo-palestinien et l’insertion européenne par le biais du Partenariat euroméditerranéen October 2003 - January 2004: 2004 Internship at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Beirut Libanon (Office of the Executive-Secretary) 2 IV. LANGUAGE SKILLS Dutch French English German Arabic Understand Native Fluent Fluent Excellent Very good Speak Native Fluent Fluent Very good Good Read Native Fluent Fluent Excellent Very good Write Native Fluent Excellent Very good Good V. PUBLICATIONS & PRESS APPEARENCES June 2008, Ward Vloeberghs, The Genesis of a Mosque. Negotiating Sacred Space in Downtown Beirut in Working Paper Series of the European University Institute, Florence. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2008/17, available from: http://cadmus.eui.eu/dspace/handle/1814/8867 To be published in the forthcoming collective volume Questioning Urban Illegality in the Arab World. The Many Forms of Ordinary Housing, Law Production and Public Action Forthcoming, Ward Vloeberghs et alii, “La Ville Négociée” in Alfa. Maghreb et sciences sociales. Forthcoming, Ward Vloeberghs, Tine de Betue & John Nawas, Translation into Dutch of Halat Hisar (State of Siege), a poem by Mahmoud Darwish. To be published as Staat van beleg by De Geus, Breda – The Netherlands & Belgium. Forthcoming, T. Koutroubas, W. Vloeberghs & Z. Yanasmayan, “Political, religious, and ethnic radicalisation among people of Islamic culture in Belgium of the 2000’s” paper prepared for CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies) 2008, Ward Vloeberghs & Theodoros Koutroubas, “De l’identité imputée: l’islam comme appartenance ethnique” in La Revue Générale, Février 2008, p.33-38. 2008, “Statistical Error”, Letter in The Economist, 19 January 2007, vol.386, Number 8563. 2007, Interview on Lebanese presidential election in Belgian newspaper Vers L’avenir. « LIBAN - La journée de tous les dangers », 23 november 2007, p. 11. 2007, Interview in the documentary Islam and Muslims in Belgium, prepared for “De Horizon”, broadcasted on Radio 5 by the Nederlandse Islamitische Omroep (Dutch Islamic Radio), on 7 April 2007. Available from: http://www.nioweb.nl/2007/04/07/radio-afgelopen-zaterdag-7/ 2004, Sociologie d’une communauté scientifique: le cas des démographes libanais, Mémoire de DEA sous la direction de Jean-Noël Ferrié. 2001, Group Interview for “Ter Zake”, VRT (Belgian National Broadcaster), 18 October 2001. 2001, The UN Conference on Minorities (c.q. the Copts) planned in Cairo in 1994: the Perspective of Ruz el-Yûsuf, MA Thesis (in Dutch) directed by Prof. Urbain Vermeulen. 3 VI. OTHER SKILLS & INTERESTS • Review, coaching and supervision supervision of academic projects, projects (selection).: * REVIEW: Sebastian ABDALLAH, « Online Chatting in Beirut: Sites of Occasioned Identity-Construction » in Media, Wars, Identities, Part 2 (Ethnographic Studies special issue), N° 10 (May 2008). Amine AÏT-CHAALAL, « Langue(s) arabe(s), monde(s) arabe(s), arabité, arabisme : éléments de réflexion et d’évaluation de dynamiques complexes » in Les espaces linguistiques : nouveaux acteurs dans la mondialisation Revue Internationale de politique comparée, Vol. 14, n°1, 2007, p. 51-68. Adinda CLAESENS, L’assassinat de l’ancien premier ministre libanais Rafic Hariri et la Commission d’enquête de l’Onu : un premier bilan, Mémoire de DEA en Relations Internationales et Intégration européenne, Université de Liège, summer 2006. * COACHING & ASSISTANCE : Gaëlle VANDEPUTTE, Les travailleurs migrants au Liban : action des différents agents d’intervention sociale face à la précarité, Travail de fin d’étude en DES d’aide et action humanitaire, Summer 2007. Cédric FADEUR, Essai de la géopolitique syrienne, mémoire de licence en sciences politiques, UCL, septembre 2007. * TRANSLATIONS : Translator stated on oath for Arabic-Dutch-Arabic (Translation of official documents from and into Arabic) Translated numerous reports, letters, documents from French into Dutch, Dutch into French and French into English • Themes of professional interest and competence: competence * Processes of Identity Construction & Minority Issues in the MENA region (Middle East + North Africa) * Analysis of political, military, social and economic developments in the wider Mashreq * Evolution of religious and ideological currents in Arab and Muslim societies * Dialectics of Arab and Islamic arts & culture 4