This project investigates the use of African American English (AAE) features by live performing blues artists belonging to different social groups and time periods, and analyzes the social meaning that ...read more
This project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses in total) ...read more
My project focuses on the immersive potential of epic scenes involving Roman spectacles in late Latin poetry. By spectacles I refer to the known popular Roman events, such as chariot ...read more
Over the course of the 4th to the 6th centuries, the ancient world was coming to its end in the midst of massive change: the establishment of Christianity, alterations in ...read more
The imagery and rhetoric of monstrosity is conspicuous in Claudian’s poems. The poet has composed two verse accounts of the Gigantomachy, one fragmentary in Greek and one incomplete in Latin; ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
Sheldon Pollock’s influential theories on the cosmopolitan and ‘secular’ nature of Sanskrit literature and the vernacularisation of regional Indian literatures as top-down processes which originate in royal courts do not ...read more
LOKSTAT + is an extension of LOKSTAT, the database of local statistics in Belgium (1800- 1970). LOKSTAT (developed at UGent) is a digital database of demographic, socio-economic and political-institutional statistics, ...read more
The 11th century is commonly seen as the time when Western Christianity first drew strict moral and behavioural boundaries between the servants of the Church and the laity. Recent scholarship ...read more
This project aims at the operationalization of the legacy data collection of the Thorikos Archaeological Research Project (1960 - present), especially those of the ancient Theatre, within the innovative iDig ...read more