Dr. Josephine Hoegaerts

Biography

Josephine Hoegaerts is a professor of European Culture at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in European Studies. She has previously been an Associate Professor of European Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and has held visiting fellowships at the University of Cambridge, University of the Aegean, Birkbeck College, and the Conservatory of Leipzig. Hoegaerts obtained her PhD from the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2010. Her research interests include the daily practices of citizenship, political participation, public speech, and the embodiment of authority in nineteenth-century Europe. She has explored the histories of masculinity, disability, and modes of colonial cultural exchange, emphasizing the importance of sound in parliamentary identity. From 2018 to 2023, she led the research project CALLIOPE: Vocal Articulations of Parliamentary Identity and Empire, funded by the European Research Council.

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