This research project explores the idea that new things can be learned in interaction with devices outside of us. In my practice as a media-artist, the notion of a 'Dialogue ...read more
In 1992 I carried out fieldwork in Central Kenya, collecting Gikuyu oral narratives and discussing their historical relations to gender-identity and morality with the performers. Eventually this resulted in my ...read more
My dissertation “Encountering Psychogeographical Literary Moments: Readers’ Affective Enactment in Contemporary British Novels (2000-)” examines how embodied readers affectively enact fictional urban environments and the affordances mentioned through textual cues ...read more
In recent years, the Belgian colonial past and its contemporary legacies have increasingly become the subject of a public debate. This FWO-funded project starts from the hypothesis that the tensions in ...read more
In this project, a novel speech recognition framework and a set of accompanying, contemporary linguistic models is co-developed. The envisioned layered architecture combines local inference with inter-layer message passing, similar to what ...read more
Despite the plethora of often visually very attractive social media monitoring tools currently available on the market, none of the existing solutions provide fine-grained insights to support reputation monitoring. The ...read more
In Romanian, a broad range of predicates is used with a subject-like experiencer argument in the dative (e.g. Mi-e somn ‘I feel sleepy’, lit. me.DAT is sleep) or, more rarely, ...read more
In 1529, the Order of the Knights of St John accepted the offer of a Mediterranean base from Charles V and relocated to the islands of the Maltese archipelago. During ...read more
The aim of my research is to bridge the gap between research into so-called translation universals (explicitation, implicitation, interference and shining-through) in the domain of corpus translation studies and, on ...read more
This project will explore the Jewish literary production from the early Mamluk period. Its aim is to advance our knowledge of this research field by conducting a literary and contextual ...read more