Kwadwo King

Antwerp Summer School on Urban Logistics Date:  20 - 31 August 2018  Venue:  UAntwerp, Stadscampus - Prinsstraat 13 - 2000 Antwerp (route:  UAntwerpen, Stadscampus )  Organization / co-organization:  Department Transport & Regional Economics  Short description:  Summer school on planning and managing the urban transport in urban areas under a dynamic context as today logistics: key for city sustainable development  About the Summer School   Academic circles as well as governments have only grown the focus on urban logistics in recent years. This is because, on the one hand, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas and they account for 70% of total GDP worldwide (UN, 2017). On the other hand, the urban logistics that brings the goods to these consumers and economic activities causes 20-30% of the total number of kilometers driven and 16-50% of the emissions in these areas (Dablanc, 2007). Therefore, planning and managing the urban transport in urban

Assumption Day Date:  15 August 2018  Venue:  UAntwerp  Short description:  UAntwerp closed  Link:   https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/news/academic-calendar/  

Queer Fashion Talk by Nicola Brajato Date:  9 August 2018  Venue:  TKwartier - Keistraat 11 - 2000 Antwerpen  Time:  5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  Short description:  PhD researcher and A* member Nicola Brajato will be part of the fifth edition of the Antwerp Queer Art Festival with a talk on Queer Fashion in collaboration with MoMu (Mode Museum)  About the event   Based on this year Antwerp Queer Art Festival’s topic “OUT OF FOCUS”, Nicola will analyze how fashion has been/is used to put subjects in or out of focus and how the approach to dress has changed during history in relation to gender identity and the body. It will be a journey in what it means to be queer through fashion, a subversion of dress from an identity code to a resistance one. Starting  from a brief overview of fashion history between the thirteenth and the eighteenth century, in order to show the similarities between gender aesthetics - as sociologist Fred Davis states "the desire [...] of one sex to emulate the cloth

Belgian National Day Date:  21 July 2018  Venue:  UAntwerp  Short description:  UAntwerp closed  Link:   https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/news/academic-calendar/  

Second exam period Date:  15 July 2018  Venue:  UAntwerp  Short description:  Registration deadline  Link:   https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/education/  

Date:  15 July 2018  Venue:  UAntwerp  Short description:  Second semester standard facilities second exam period  Link:   https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/news/academic-calendar/