Dr A.M.C. Swinnen

Key projects

Second Money Stream

• NWO Internationalization in the Humanities: Live to Be a Hundred: Cultural Narratives of Longevity. With WAM Research Group (UK), Grup Dedal-Lit (Lleida, SP), NISAL (Linköping, SE), NWSA Aging and Ageism Caucus (USA), MLA Age Studies Discussion Group (USA), Austrian/German Aging Studies Group, Oct 1, 2010-Sep 30, 2013
• ZonMw Disability Studies in the Netherlands: Beyond Autonomy and Language – Towards a Disability Studies Perspective on Dementia. With Dr. Ruud Hendriks, Annette Hendrikx and Dr. Ike Kamphof, Sep 1, 2010-Jan 1, 2013
• NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni: The Study of the Literary Imagination of Reminiscence in the Vollendungs- or Reifungsroman from a Genre and Gender perspective, Oct 1, 2006-Oct 1, 2010

Third Money Stream

• Sichting Doen (BankGiro Loterij Fonds) and Edmond Hustinx Stichting: Living Like an Artist / Kunstenaars en de kunst van het ouder worden. With Jan Van Eyck Academy (R. Straetmans and P. Fleskens), 2018-2019

• Cultural Participation Fund: Poëzie- en verhalenkabinet. With Jan Van Eyck Academy (P. Fleskens), community arts collective Soapera (B. Vanraes), and nursing homes De Beyart and Scharwyerveld, May 1, 2015-Mar 30, 2016

• Department for Elderly, Belgian Province of Limburg: Wel oud, niet out! De intimiteit en seksualiteit van ouderen. With Research Group Arck (L. Vesentini), PHL University College, Hasselt, Belgium, 2008-2009

Competitive Visiting Scholarships

• Fulbright scholarship for a 6-month research stay at the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics of Stony Brook University, 2014