We are happy to invite you to an information afternoon about the doctorate in the arts of the Associated Faculty of Arts (KU Leuven – LUCA School of Arts). This will take place on Thursday 14 October from 1.30 pm to 5 pm on Campus Sint-Lukas Brussels (Paleizenstraat 70, 1030 Schaarbeek) in the "Klein Auditorium" (C.-3.17). During this afternoon, we will look closer into different aspects of the doctoral program, the activities and research focuses of the research units, doctoral financing, archiving research output, doctoral mobility as well as the libraries and workshops of LUCA.

Please confirm your presence before October 12 by buying a free ticket at the right side of this page.

This is the program of the afternoon:

• 13:30 – 13:45

About the PhD in the Arts program at the Associated Faculty of the Arts

Veerle Van der Sluys (vice-dean for research)

• 13:45 – 14:05

From application to defence

Dieter De Vlieghere and Monia Kennes (research & project office)

• 14:05 – 14:45

Research units and clusters

Annelies Monseré, Jeroen D’hoe, Niels Hendriks, Steven Devleminck (heads of the research units)

• 14:45 – 14:55

The doctoral ombuds

Isolde Vanhee (researcher and ombudswoman)

• 14:55 – 15:10

Q & A

~ ~ ~  Break  ~ ~ ~ 

• 15:20 – 15:30

Research communication and valorisation

Valery De Smedt (research & project office)

• 15:30 – 15:45

Archiving Research Output in Lirias

Nick Poels (DOC) and Annelies Monseré (Image)

• 15:45 – 15:55

Libraries, e-journals, databases 

Peterjan Perquy (librarian)

• 15:55 – 16:05

LUCA’s workshops and loan service (LUS)

Stijn Heirbaut (head of workshops)

• 16:05 – 16:15

Doctoral mobility

Nela Avila Maya (international mobility KU Leuven) and Wim Aerts (international office LUCA)

• 16:15 – 16:45

PhD financing

Matthias Somers and Dieter De Vlieghere (research & project office)

• 16:45 - 17:00

Q & A