Permanent training, education, training and workshops outside the regular teaching offer (including Doctoral Schools)
Dance and the Blockchain: Commodification and Ownership of Embodied Creativity in the Crypto Space, doctoral school / specialist course, co-organised by Jorge P. Yánez, Adriana La Selva, Christel Stalpaert (S:PAM) and Pieter-Jan Maes (IPEM and ASIL LAB).
2022
Sound & Listening on the Edge of Music, Performance, Film and New Media, Doctoraal school/specialist course.
2019
What Are We Training For? On acting and performance techniques - Current directions for embodied research in the performing arts? Doctoral school/specialist course
2018
Art and Politics.Thinking Art with the Agonistic Politico-Philosophical Theory of Chantal Mouffe, Doctoral school/specialist course met Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster) and Arkadi Zaides, choreographer
2016
Art and Ethics. Shifts from Biopolitics to Necropolitics, Doctoral school/specialist course with Marina Grzinic (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Marissa Lobo (independent artist Vienna) and Aneta Stojnic (UGent – Basileus post-doc research fellow)
2014
Masks, Puppets and Performative Objects as Tools of Critique, Resistance and Agency in South Africa. Developing a Situational, Embodied and Postdramatic Approach for Dealing with the Cultural Trauma of Apartheid, Doctoral school/specialist course
2014
The Body as Archive. 100 Years Le Sacre, Doctoral school/specialist course with Martine Huvenne (HoGent), Rokus De Groot (UvA) and Ramsay Burt (De Montfort University, UK)
2013
Art and Action in Conflict Zones, Doctoral school/specialist course with Frederik Le Roy (UGent), Hildegard De Vuyst (dramaturge KVS) and Prof. Dr. Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University)
2012
Auratic Presence: A Postdramatic Perspective on the Body and Corporeality, Doctoral school/specialist course with Christel Stalpaert, Koen Augustijnen. Prof. Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann and Prof. Dr. Richard Cave.
2011
Popularised contribution and social media
Participation in Notes-Project Ivana Müller, as part of KunstenFestivalDesArts Brussels, 26 February - 12 March 2018
2018
Participation Belezen Wetenschappers, a literary-scientific salon with Pat Donnnez on the literature that inspires us. De Krook, Ghent, Tuesday 7 November 2017.
2017
Membership internal (taskforce, committee, board)
Vertegenwoordiger van de UGent in de Algemene Vergadering van de vzw Gent2023, die die kandidatuur voorbereidt van de stad Gent om in 2030 de titel van Europese Culturele Hoofdstad te verwerven (sinds 18 oktober 2022)
2022 - Ongoing
Deputy Director of the UGent Strategic Institutional Partnership (SIP) for The University of California, Berkeley (2019)
2019 - Ongoing
Member of the Onderzoeksraad Kask – School of Arts (since 25 April 2014)
2014 - Ongoing
Member of the Facultaire Commissie Milieu (since 2012)
2012 - Ongoing
Member of the Faculteitsraad Letteren en Wijsbegeerte (1 Oktober 2012 – ongoing)
2012 - Ongoing
Membership external (association, board, panel)
Member of the scientific committee of the Belgian Interuniversity Conferences Series on Planetary Boundaries and Socio-Ecological Risks (org. UlB, CERAC and Belgian Climate Center) (since March 2025)
2025 - Ongoing
Participation meetings Trage Wegen vzw in the context of new art projects to be realised by vzw Arpia - Art with Landscape.
2018 - Ongoing
Member of the board of directors of the non-profit organisation Zoo Humain (theatremaker Chokri Ben Chikha) (since December 2013 - ongoing)
2013 - Ongoing
President of the non-profit association Arpia. Art with landscape (since September 2009)
2009 - Ongoing
Editor-in-chief of the academic theatre magazine Documenta (since autumn 2004) (VABB-listed)
2004 - Ongoing
Board member (Board of Directors) of A.PASS (advanced performance and scenography studies) (2013 - 2018)
2013 - 2018
Member of the Board of Directors of the non-profit organisation A Two Dogs Company (Theatremaker Kris Verdonck) (since July 2013 - 2018)
2013 - 2018
Co-organisation of workshop at De Wattenfabriek Herzele in the context of Koen Vanmechelen's land art project CWXRM
2017
Co-curator of the exhibition VISITE – voor(bij) woorden gemeente Herzele (Wattenfabriek en Pastorie) in collaboration with MUHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, 2 – 26 April 2015
2015
Member of the editorial board of the academic series Theatre Topics (Amsterdam University Press, the Netherlands) (2005-2012)
2005 - 2012
Research sabbatical via faculty mobility fund
Sabbatical (BOF Special Research Fund UGent and CWO – Faculty Research Fund) 1 February 2023 – 31 January 2024.
2023 - 2024
New York - funding CWO, travel credit short research stay abroad, Faculty Research Fund, in the context of sabbatical 2023, 19 June 2023 - 9 July 2023.
2023
Sabbatical (BOF Special Research Fund UGent and CWO – Faculty Research Fund) academic year 2012 – 2013.
2012 - 2013
Other research stays
Distinguished Visiting Honorary Fellow at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, March 2023.
2023
Erasmus, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, September 1991 – January 1992.
1991 - 1992
Conference contributions
Joint lecture performance with Thierno Dia, Taslim Mamadou Diallo, Fran Kourouma, Modou Ndiaye, Alberto Isifin Tchama and Arkadi Zaides 'Ecologies of Mourning: Expanded Gestures of care in the Virtual Commemoration Site of Necropolis (united)'
2024
Joint presentation with Arkadi Zaides 'Spectral Infrastructure Revealed: Counter Forensic Processes at Necropolis (United)'
2024
Joint presentation with Maria Lucia Cruz Correia 'Natural Contract Lab: Fabulating Resilient Rivers and Collective Stewardship'
2024
Joint presentation with Maria Lucia Cruz Correia 'STILL HERE: an alliance of care for Szenne river' (between Natural Contract Lab and S:PAM_UGent)
2024
Presentation 'On (Re-)Activation'
2024
Presentation 'The Documentary Choreography of Necropolis: Unlearning Citizenship and Extractivism'
2024
Keynote lecture 'Unlearning VISIBILITY AND Citizenship in Necropolis. The Documentary Choreography as a Heterotopian Affirmation of Reality'
2023
Presentation 'Art Activating Water Awareness: Hyphenated Thinking in Maria Lucia Correia’s Floating Schools and natural Contract LABs'
2023
Presentation 'Hyphenated Thinking in Performance-Pedagogical Prototypes: Institutional Engagement in Maria Lucia Correia’s Flotation Schools and Natural Contract Labs'
2023
Joint presenation with Arkadi Zaides 'The Inverted Reality of Utopia; Necropolis as Cartographic Heterotopia of the Dead'
2022
Joint presentation with Nina Vurdelja 'Essayer: Walking as Speculative Methodology'
2022
Keynote online lecture 'Art Activating Climate Change Awareness' for ENLIGHT Climate Change: Art, Performance & Narration
2022
Online presentation 'Performing Arts, Health and Humanities'
2022
Online presentation 'Art Activating Water Awareness' for the Water Webinar Series
2021
Online presentation 'Tentacular-Thinking-with-Things in Storied Places: Parliament of Things (2019) by Peter Aers and Building Conversation'
2021
Hosting of visiting researchers
Dra. Marzia Failla, exchange doctoral student, (PhD Student in Cultural Heritage at the University of Tuscia, in Viterbo, Italy, February – April 2025)
2025 - Ongoing
Prof. Dr. Katia Arfara, incoming visiting scholarship, FWO, (Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, New York University Abu Dhab, May 6-June 10, 2024)
2024
Dr. Vinicius Torres Machado, postdoctoral visiting scholarship, (São Paulo State University, Brazil, July 2022 – July 2023)
2022 - 2023
Dra. Lise Sofie Houe, scholarship (Aarhus University, School of Communication and Culture, Dramaturgy, Denmark, 28 September 2021 – 26 October 2021)
2021
Prof. Dr Piet Defraye, incoming CWO stay, (University of Alberta, Canada, 1 January 2021 - 30 July 2021)
2021
Dra. Eylül Akinci, scholarship (The Graduate Centre – City University of New York, 1 October 2018-1 July 2019)
2018 - 2019
Dra. Héniel Fourie (North West University, South Africa, 14-18 May 2018)
2018
Dra. Jo-Ann Chan (North West University, South Africa, October 2018)
2018
Prof. Dr. Rita Swaenepoel (FCI) (North West University, South Africa, October 2018)
2018
Dra. Maria Albertyn (Stellenbosch University, South Africa, September – December 2017)
2017
Prof. Dr. Mateusz Borowski (incoming stay cwo) (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, December – March 2017)
2016 - 2017
Dr. Gerko Egert, postdoctoral visiting scholarship (Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Theatre Studies, Germany - October 2015)
2015
Drs. Vinicius Torres Machado (São Paulo State University, Brazil, September - December 2013)
2013