PhD Student
ema.tytgat@ulb.be
Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles
Adresse visiteur :
Bâtiment S, 11è étage - Bureau : S11.105
Avenue Jeanne, 44
1050 Bruxelles
Bio
Ema Tytgat is a doctoral researcher in Social and Political Sciences. Her PhD, funded by a FRESH grant from the FNRS, examines the archives of Chilean political exile in Brussels. Her research lies at the intersection of the anthropology of memory and the sociology of exile, with a focus on collaborative research practices and alternative approaches to archiving.
CV
2012–2016: Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology, specialisation in Anthropology (Erasmus exchange - Complutense University of Madrid)
2016–2019: Master’s degree in Population and Development Studies
Master’s thesis: La Casa de la Memoria de Tumaco: the space of a new memorial discourse
Active in the Belgian socio-cultural sector since 2019, with experience in research-creation projects focused on collaborative archiving practices and community-based memories in Brussels
Areas of research
- Anthropology of memory
- Studies of Chilean political exile
- Collective memory and intergenerational transmission
- Heritage and archives
- Community-based memory practices and participatory dispositifs
- Sites of memory
- Processes of memory artification
- Research
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My doctoral research examines how Chilean political exiles produce, transmit, and transform memories of exile through narratives, artefacts, and political, activist, associative, and affective practices. It focuses on contemporary post-exile dynamics and on the urban and social anchoring of memory. The project also incorporates the experiences of Chileans who returned to Chile in order to analyse processes of deterritorialisation in exile narratives. Finally, it examines the production of situated memorial discourses in confrontation with dominant archival and historiographical frameworks, through collaborative archiving practices, the reappropriation of digital archives, and processes of memory artification, notably via the participatory dispositif Mi Barrio Bruxelles.