Good-looking people enough at the VUB. But do you still recognize them? As part of our 50th anniversary, we knocked on the door of some VUB professors and asked them to take a look at their old photo archive and give us a photo from their student days. And admit it... often with hilariously surprising results. Also surprising are their anecdotes, maybe not for VUB-experts, but hilarious the more.
Who are we looking for?
After his studies in Social Work, he moved to Brussels for a preparational year ‘avant la lettre’ and his secondary degree in Sociology at the VUB. He obtained a PhD and specialized in the Sociology of (Free)Time and Cultural Practice and -Participation in Flanders and Belgium. Since 1983 he is a member of the research group TOR (Tempus Omnia Revelat), questioning the sociological relationship between time, culture and society. But you, students, will know him best as an inspiring teacher from his courses on social theory, social inequality, sociology of time, leisure politics and methodology.
Indeed, the young man in this picture is the one and only professor Ignace Glorieux.
Read more below the image and discover the VUB-anecdote of professor Glorieux.
The anecdote of Glorieux
“The VUB offered in 1981 a unique preparational year ‘avant la lettre’ in sociology. So, that summer I moved from Ghent to Brussels to continue my higher education. With a friend we searched during weeks for a suitable and affordable home, unsuccessfully. Until we found an unhabited corner building, VUB-property, at avenue du triomphe 75. We installed new front door locks, opened electricity and water on our name, filled the oil tank for heating. We developed our DIY skills to keep the property habitable. The authorities accepted our presence. In this period all VUB buildings were open, day and night, including the sports infrastructure. We went at night playing tennis in the dark, showering after a party or studying in the sauna for an exam.”
"It is in the DNA of the VUB to be an ‘open house’. Although, by all time developments, this concept is now filled in differently…"
Do you aslo recognize these professors?