Over the past decades, the theatrical landscape of Brussels has increasingly reflected its multilingual everyday reality on stage. In consequence, today’s heteroglossic productions have propelled various dramaturgic and aesthetic experiments ...read more
This research project reads the experimental work of Kathy Acker with queer theory. Acker's oeuvre is considered to be one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. Scholarly ...read more
This doctoral research studies the relationship between heritage and history education in Flanders. The aim is to develop a theoretical and pedagogical framework related to the use of heritage in ...read more
“Ut pictura poesis”! The comparison is older than Horace but the rivalry between different artistic media continues on the modern stage. The texts this project proposes to analyse embody an ...read more
This project aims to replace the Dept. of Geology’s aging Scanning Electron Microscope with a model that is up to challenges of modern Earth Science research in geology, archaeology and soil ...read more
Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this ...read more
Language patterns are more or less ‘productive’, depending on their lexical scope. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to compare attested productivity, in present-day language use as well as through history, ...read more
This project aims at rethinking ways of reading and writing change in African gender history. Looking at oral historical narratives and the transgenerational communication of historical knowledge among the Yaawo-speaking ...read more
This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks ...read more
Time Machine is a FET-Flagship/LSRI CSA project in preparation of a full FET Flagship/LSRI proposal, funded by the EU through the H2020 programme. It wants to build the Big Data ...read more