Ludo Abicht

Oostende (B), June 5, 1936

Mechelsesteenweg 212
2018 Antwerp
Belgium
Phone/fax: 00 32 3 237 08 70

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Current Employment

• University of Ghent: visiting professor of philosophy and ethics.
• University of Antwerp: part time professor of Middle Eastern Studies.
• P.A.R.T.S. dance institute Brussels: part-time lecturer of political philosophy.
• FVG-Antwerp: endowed professor of philosophical texts.

Education

• 1948-1954: St Xavier’s Jesuit high school in Antwerp.
• 1954-1960: National University Brussels: BA in Latin and Greek
• 1958-1960: Jesuit Seminary Nijmegen (NL): Western philosophy.
• 1961-1963: U. of Ghent: MA in Germanic Studies.
• 1971: U. of Cincinnati: Phd in German Studies with a thesis on the German-Jewish Prague author Paul Adler: Paul Adler, ein Dichter aus Prag.

Teaching Experience

• 1963-1964: St Joseph's High School, Blankenberge (B): teaching German and Dutch.
• 1965-1968: U. of New Brunswick, Fredericton (CN): assistant professor of German
• 1968-1980: Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH: assistant, from 1971 on associate professor of European Studies.
• 1980-1981 (1983-1984 and Fall Semester of 1990): UC Berkeley, visiting professor of Dutch Studies, German Department
• 1984-2001: U. of Antwerp: part time lecturer German Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy.
• 2001 - : Part time lecturer at the U. of Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp (see "Current employment" above).

Other Work Experience

• 1997-1999: Brussels: director of a training school for labor organizers in the Belgian trade unions.

Grants, Honors and Awards

• 2001: National "Freedom of Speech" award.
• 2004: Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Language and literature.
• 2004-2005: Holder of the Willy Calewaert chair at the U. of Brussels.

Papers presented

Since my return to Europe in 1984 I've presented papers at the U. of Antwerp, the U. of Maastricht (NL) , the U. of Ghent, the UNESCO Conference on Science and Ethics in Budapest, the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the U. of Amsterdam, the University of Tilburg, the U. of Presov (Slovakia), the City College of London, UC Berkeley, Stanford U.and the U. of Tel-Aviv.

Publications

1. Books

• Paul Adler, ein Dichter aus Prag, Frankfurt, 1973.
• Brood, rozen en utopie, Gent, 1973.
• Fundamentalisten hebben geen schuldgevoelens, Gent, 1989
• Mensen in Israël en Palestina, Kapellen, 1990
• Filosofie is voor iedereen, Leuven, 1993
• Goed leven is goed samenleven, Leuven, 1993.
• Nieuw kritisch denken, Gent, 1993.
• De joden van België, Amsterdam, 1994.
• De zure druiven van de oorlog, Antwerpen, 1994.
• De tocht door de woestijn, Antwerpen-Baarn, 1996.
• Intelligente Emotie, Antwerpen, 2001.
• Eén maat en één gewicht, Kapellen, 2002.
• Ware geuzen zijn Turks noch paars, Brussel, 2005,
• Geschiedenis van de joden van de Lage Landen, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 2006.
• De Verlichtig vandaag, Antwerpen/Baarn, 2007.
• Het Lunapark en andere plekken. Autobiografisch materiaal, 2008.

2. Esssays, articles and chapters in books

More than 120 articles, essays and chapters in journals such as New German Critique, Monthly Review, Athenäum, Streven, Civis Mundi, Tijdschrift voor Diplomatie, Kreatief, Ons Erfdeel, Etcetera, Kultuurleven, Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift, Mores, Leesidee etc.