Jim van der Meulen is senior researcher within the Political Culture and History group at the Huygens Institute (KNAW). He has a broad interest in power relations in the pre-industrial Low Countries and the interconnected colonial world. In his current research, he explores social and legal conflicts over the shared living spaces of animals and humans in the period 1350-1750.

Gerrit Verhoeven is professor of Heritage Studies at the University of Antwerp and archivist at the Royal Museums of Art and History. In 2009, he received his PhD from the University of Antwerp with a dissertation on early modern Dutch and Flemish travelers on the Grand Tour. The history of travel and tourism is therefore one of his favorite research domains. Together with Andreas Stynen (KU Leuven), he recently published the book Destination Belgium. A history of tourism in thirteen stages (1830-2030). Spurred by his latest project RMARCH: The Royal Museums of Art and History: the History of its Buildings
and its Collections based on the Museum’s Archives, he has in recent years increasingly specialised in the museum history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.