Organising Team

Valérie Aucouturier, USLB, AutonomiCap

Co-promoter of the ARC AutonomiCap project, Valérie Aucouturier is a professor of philosophy at University Saint-Louis - Brussels and a member of the Centre Prospéro. Langage, Image, Connaissance. Her research lies at the crossroads of the philosophies of language, action and mind. She is particularly interested in the notion of agency and in the limitations of agency. Her publications include L'intention en action, Paris, Vrin, 2017; Qu'est-ce que l'intentionalité, Paris, Vrin, 2014; 'Conversations with Madness: Meaning, Context and Incoherence', in M. Amblard et al (eds.), (In)coherence of Discourse, Language, Cognition, and Mind 10, 2021.

Louis Bertrand, EHESS, USL-B, AutonomiCap

Louis Bertrand is a postdoctoral researcher  at the EHEES and an associate member of the Centre d’anthropologie, sociologie, psychologie – études et recherches (CASPER - University Saint-Louis - Brussels).

Miranda Boldrini, USL-B, AutonomiCap

Miranda Boldrini is a postdoctoral research fellow in the ARC AutonomiCap project, at University Saint-Louis, Brussels. PhD in Philosophy, her main areas of interest are contemporary moral philosophy, ordinary language philosophy, disability studies and feminist philosophy. Her research within the AutonomiCap project adopts the ethics of care, ordinary language philosophy and epistemic injustice as principal perspectives in order to investigate the notions of autonomy and disability from a conceptual as well as a moral and political point of view.

Yves Cartuyvels, USL-B, AutonomiCap

Co-promoter of the ARC AutonomiCap project, Yves Cartuyvels is Vice-Rector for Research and ordinary professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université Saint-Louis - Brussels where he teaches criminal law, criminology and legal theory. He is a member of the Groupe de Recherche en matière Pénale et Criminelle (GREPEC), the Séminaire Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes Juridiques (SIEJ) and the Centre de recherches et d'intervention sociologique (CESIR). His main research interests are the functioning of criminal justice and the history of criminal law and criminology. After having studied juvenile justice for a long time, his more recent work focuses on the internment policies of mentally disturbed offenders. Within the AutonomiCap project, he is interested in the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on internment policy in Belgium.

Jean-Michel Chaumont, UCLouvain

Chloé Daelman, USL-B, AutonomiCap

Chloé Daelman is admin support for the Centre d’anthropologie, sociologie, psychologie – études et recherches (CASPER), one of the lab hosting the ARC AutonomiCap project. She also is research ingeneer and admin support for the ERC project (European Research Council) CoachingRituals (Coaching as a social ritual: acting on people in a liberal individualistic society - parenting, education, mental health care). 

Lison Demichelis, USL-B, AutonomiCap

Lison Demichelis is admin support for the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches en droit Constitutionnel (CIRC).

Loredana Guerriero,  USL-B, AutonomiCap

Loredana Guerriero is the Communication and Events Coordinator of the research centres CESIR (Centre de recherches et d'interventions sociologiques), Engage (Research Center for Publicness in Contemporary Communication) and GREPEC (Groupe de recherche en matière pénale et criminelle)

Isabelle Hachez, USL-B, AutonomiCap

Co-director of the ARC AutonomiCap project and co-president of the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches en droit Constitutionnel (CIRC), Isabelle Hachez is a professor of law at the Université Saint-Louis - Brussels where she teaches among others Sources and Principles of Law and Human Rights. Her main research areas are the justiciability of social rights (in particular, the principle of standstill), the theory of the sources of law and the rights of persons with disabilities. In this field, she recently co-edited, with Jogchum Vrielink, « Les grands arrêts en matière de handicap ». Since October 2019, she has also been an effective member of the Unia Support Committee for the implementation of Article 33.2 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Nicolas Hanquet, USL-B, TIMH

Nicolas Hanquet is an interpreter working with French and LSFB and is a PhD candidate (FNRS) Since September 2021, he started a PhD on interpreting studies at the University of Saint-Louis in Brussels (USL-B) and the University of Namur (UNamur). His research is about co-interpretation strategies used by Deaf - hearing team. 

Nicolas Marquis, USL-B, AutonomiCap

Co-promoter of the ARC AutonomiCap project, Nicolas Marquis is professor of sociology and methodology at Université Saint-Louis - Brussels, as well as co-director of the research center Centre d’anthropologie, sociologie, psychologie – études et recherches (CASPER). He also leads both the ERC (European Research Council) project "CoachingRituals" (Coaching as a social ritual: acting on people in a liberal individualistic society (parenting, education, mental health care) and « Lutter contre l’échec, repenser la relation pédagogique » which aims to better understand (through qualitative and quantitative surveys) the representations and attitudes of new students coming nowadays to University.
Personal development and coaching, students attitudes and teaching practices, disability and mental health, parenting,... Through these various research fields, about which he has written numerous scientific papers, Nicolas Marquis investigates the same question : " What does it mean to live in an individualistic society, wich values individual autonomy as never before?"  

Isabelle Ville, EHESS, Inserm, France