Antwerp Metropolitan Area
Leen Beyers is head of the curatorial department of the MAS, which displays, researches and updates the MAS collection of 600,000 objects of history, art and culture associated with the city and port of Antwerp, with overseas shipping and maritime trade and with Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania. She has a PhD in history and Ma. in anthropology. Her expertise as researcher and curator mainly relates to urban history, food culture, migration, oral history and collecting. She is boardmember of ICOM COMCOL.
Stimulating the scientific network of the MAS Coaching the team of keepers and curators Participation projects with regard to collecting, significance assessment and curating Programming and curating of exhibitions Collecting Coordination of research and publication projects
Teaching "Methods of Contemporary History" Coaching students Ethnographic research in community gardens Congress organization Creation of a network for the heritage of migration
Teaching a course on "European cities and migration since 1945" Analysing "Riots in France in 2005" for the Penn Urban Studies Forum Publishing dissertation results
Researching migration and community life in the Belgian Limburg mining area in the 20c, with an in-depth case study on the mining town of Zwartberg Specializing in qualitative research and oral history Teaching and coaching students Presenting and publishing research results Member of 'werkgroep mijnmonument Zwartberg'