Christophe Van Eecke will receive the prestigious Dissertation Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for his dissertation ‘Pandaemonium: Ken Russell’s Artist Biographies as Baroque Performance’. Every year the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation awards its prestigious Dissertation Prize to the five best dissertations of the year in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Christophe Van Eecke defended his thesis (co-tutelle UM and ULB; promotors: Maaike Meijer and Karel Vanhaesebrouck) on 5 November 2015.
The award ceremony will take place at the KNAW in Amsterdam on 9 May 2016.