
As I always have been interested in image theory and visual arts, I chose to do a master’s degree in Filmstudies and Visual Culture after obtaining my bachelor’s in Psychology. I am happy to have made this choice as today I find myself working as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Antwerp, where I get to interact with students on a daily basis and I can work together with researchers from different fields who share my interest in Visual Culture.
I started my PhD a year and six months ago. My project focuses on the development of new visual methods and the study of visual representations of colonialism in Belgian and Congolese cities. In the course of the past two years I have assisted various workshops and conferences on the topics of ‘decolonization’, ‘alternative narratives’ and ‘visual methods’. I was involved in the organization of the International Visual Methods Seminar held in 2015 and I am a co-organizer of the 2016 conference ‘Raoul Peck and the Iconography of Lumumba’. I have published a number of articles, but only recently submitted an article to a peer-reviewed journal for the first time (Journal of Sociology). I have lectured at the Institute for Modern Language Research in London and the university of Antwerp, where I am involved in the courses ‘Theory of Visual Communication’ and ‘Visual studies’.
**_Workshops & Conferences_**
Decolonizing the Museum: Limits and Possibilities - University of Amsterdam (2014)
‘Framing The Object: Memory, Nation, Narrative - Institute for Modern Language Research, London (2015) Lecture: ‘Everything waits to be decided’
International Visual Methods Seminar - University of Antwerp (2015)
**_Publications
_**- Een nieuwe blik op het verleden in publieke ruimte (2015) Rooilijn (1), Antwerp
- ‘Transformations of Place du Trône – Visualizing narratives of Belgian colonialism’
(under review)
Sessions in which Robbert Jacobs participates
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 Transformations of Place du Trône: Visualizing Narratives of Colonialism
- Participant Robbert Jacobs (U Antwerpen) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
Sessions in which Robbert Jacobs attends
12:30
12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
14:30
14:30
- Public Debate: Heritage and the City | Le Patrimoine et la Ville
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Agora
- 14:30 - 16:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- Current Research I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Regular session
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Regular session
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Talk
13:30
13:30
- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
15:30
15:30
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine : Roundtable | Table ronde UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
8:00
8:00
- La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 8:00 - 13:00 | 5 hours
- Exhibition
9:00
9:00
- Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
14:00
14:00
- Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

19:00
19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
9:00
9:00
- Critical Creation series: The visits (of which there were none) Episode N. 2 Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Event
- 14.30 The Mutuality of Colonial Heritage in Multiethnic Paramaribo: Reality or Illusion?
- Participant Dr. Eugenio Van Maanen (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands) | Participant Gregory Ashworth |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- Current Research III Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.301
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 13.30 3D Visualization, Community Collaboration and the Production of Social Value: The ACCORD Project
- Participant Prof Sian Jones (University of Stirling) | Participant Dr Stuart Jeffrey (Glasgow School of Art) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- Paper
- 14.30 Casting a Line: Hospitality, Trajectory and Artcasting in "ARTIST ROOMS" Co-Production
- Participant Dr Jen Ross (University of Edinburgh) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- Paper
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
20:00
20:00
- Film Series: Exit Zero
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 20:00 - 21:35 | 1 hour 35 minutes
- Event
8:00
8:00
- La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.231
- 8:00 - 13:00 | 5 hours
- Exhibition
9:00
9:00
- Current Research IV Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.301
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- The Lost Stories Project Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.130
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation