
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 auxquelles Robbert Jacobs participe
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 Transformations of Place du Trône: Visualizing Narratives of Colonialism
- Participant.e Robbert Jacobs (U Antwerpen) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- The Democratic Republic of Congo celebrated fifty-five years of independence in 2015. The busts and equestrian statues dating from the colonial ...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Robbert Jacobs assiste
12:30
12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
14:30
14:30
- Public Debate: Heritage and the City | Le Patrimoine et la Ville
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Agora
- 14:30 - 16:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Qu’est-ce que le patrimoine change à Montréal? Qu’est-ce que Montréal change au patrimoine? Ce débat vise à mettre en discussion l'évoluti...
- Talk
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 heure
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- 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 heures
- Regular session
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- 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 heures
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...
- Talk
13:30
13:30
- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 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 heure 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 heures
- Le patrimoine, ça change quoi ? Ou plutôt, qu'est-ce que c'est ? Et pour qui ? Ces questions sont à l'origine de cette exposition conçue par les...
- 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 heures 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)
- Inscription req. Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

19:00
19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 heures
- Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...
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 heures
- Dominique Fontaine / Livia Daza-Paris, A video and photographic installation.
- Event
- 14.30 The Mutuality of Colonial Heritage in Multiethnic Paramaribo: Reality or Illusion?
- Participant.e Dr. Eugenio Van Maanen (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands) | Participant.e Gregory Ashworth |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Over the last decade the term “mutual heritage” is increasingly used in policy documents in the Netherlands to describe and contextualize Dutch ...
- Paper
- Current Research III Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.301
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 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 heures
- This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...
- Regular session
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
- 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 heures
- There are many different kinds of migrants in the contemporary world. They include the familiar figures of refugees or undocumented migrants, assoc...
- 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 heure 30 minutes
- Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
- Regular session
- 13.30 3D Visualization, Community Collaboration and the Production of Social Value: The ACCORD Project
- Participant.e Prof Sian Jones (University of Stirling) | Participant.e Dr Stuart Jeffrey (Glasgow School of Art) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- The ACCORD project explores the opportunities and implications of digital visualization technologies for community engagement and research throu...
- Paper
- 14.30 Casting a Line: Hospitality, Trajectory and Artcasting in "ARTIST ROOMS" Co-Production
- Participant.e Dr Jen Ross (University of Edinburgh) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- This paper is based on the 2015-2016 AHRC-funded Artcasting project, which explored how galleries can inventively evaluate young people’s engage...
- Paper
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...
- Research-Creation
20:00
20:00
- Film Series: Exit Zero
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 20:00 - 21:35 | 1 heure 35 minutes
- Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side...
- 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 heures
- Le patrimoine, ça change quoi ? Ou plutôt, qu'est-ce que c'est ? Et pour qui ? Ces questions sont à l'origine de cette exposition conçue par les...
- Exhibition
9:00
9:00
- Current Research IV Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.301
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 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 heures
- Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
- 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 heure 30 minutes
- What is involved in presenting the past as a physical object in public space? There is a significant literature by scholars in various disciplin...
- Research-Creation