This research project focuses on the role of mayors in occupied and liberated Belgium and France (1914-1921). As a mediator between different social groups and other powerbrokers (notably the occupier) ...read more
This research project focusses on the changing relationship between the police and the public in Antwerp between 1840 and 1914. In the second half of the nineteenth century the port ...read more
This dissertation evaluates some noteworthy current developments in the use of international legal instruments to protect intellectual property rights, with special attention for patents and data exclusivity. In the first ...read more
This project aims to test Berent’s thesis of the Greek polis as a ‘stateless society’. If ‘the’ polis functioned as a stateless society, the absence of a state coercive apparatus ...read more
Alignment and argument structure lies at the heart of all current theoretical models in linguistics, both syntactic models and research within typology. In spite of that, no large-scale comprehensive study ...read more
The aim of this project is to assess various relationships between images and indulgences, especially in the context of Flemish paintings produced in the fifteenth-century and the beginning of the ...read more
PhD in the arts by Natalia Drobot (Universiteit Hasselt, Faculteit Architectuur en Kunst, PXL-MAD; main supervisor: prof. dr. Bert Willems, UHasselt), Ostalgie, een bijzondere, artistieke ontwikkeling binnen de hedendaagse kunst, vanuit ...read more
Gender and sex differences in human communication are well-documented, but the scientific knowledge on the impact of such differences on interpreting is limited. This project aims at verifying whether claims ...read more