CURRICULUM VITAE CURRICULUM VITAE Ward Vloeberghs

CURRICULUM VITAE
Ward Vloeberghs
I. PERSONALIA
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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)
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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:
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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:
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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)
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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.
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VI. OTHER SKILLS & INTERESTS
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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
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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
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