Projects

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Afro-Caribbean democracy research (Guyana)

2023

Sabbatical stay: The VLIRUOS-EI completed at University of Guyana in 2013 and supervised by Koen Abts, Koen Stroeken en Patrick Vander Weyden, which resulted in the PhD of Troy Thomas, provided a database of ongoing ...read more
A pragmatic reality. The performance and codification of collective agency in the ‘age of freedom’ of urban communities in the Southern Low Countries and Northern France, late 11th to early 13th centuries

2023

Research on the early development of urban communities in Western Europe has long been determined by a political and institutional approach of the liberties, laws and customs these communities were ...read more
Belgium
Dutch
French
History
Latin
Middle Ages
Western Europe
An integrative account of codeswitching. Reconciling structural, sociolinguistic and cognitive factors

2023

This project contributes to a better understanding of the grammar underlying Spanish-English(-Kriol) codeswitching (CS). Its objective is threefold. First, at an empirical level, it provides insight into the way the conflict ...read more
Comparative
Contemporary
English
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
North America
Quantitative
South America
Spanish
Surveys
A portrait of the city as a changing terrain. Art and Antwerp (1980–2000)

2023

This project uses contemporary art as a lens to write the history of Antwerp, a port city with an arthistorical reputation, between 1980 and 2000. The study examines a corpus ...read more
Art
History
From British Punch to The China Punch and Hong Kong Cartoons: A transcultural cartoon history and humour (1841-1997)

2023

Cartoons have been a particularly resilient popular cultural product capturing and shaping the zeitgeist. The term ‘cartoon’was coined by the British Punch (1841-1992, 1996-2002) magazine which played a key role in the birth ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Area studies
Asia
cartoons
Comics studies
Comparative
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
transcultural studies
Western Europe
The Role of Language and Narration in Damaskinos Studitis' Thisavros

2023

Michele’s project, titled The role of language and narration in Damaskinos Studitis’ Thisavros, explores and describes the syntax of a corpus of narrative hagiographical sermons from the Thisavros, a homiletic collection composed by Damaskinos ...read more
16th Century
Byzantine Legacy
Early Modern Greek Language
Early Modern Greek Literature
Greek
Hagiography
Homiletics
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Narratology
Orthodox Studies
Southern Europe
Syntax
Text Transmission
Translation Studies
S.O.S. Antwerp. Intra-urban inequalities at death in the port city of Antwerp, 1820-1939

2023

Life expectancy in Western countries has increased enormously during the past two centuries. This rise was accompanied by a change in the cause-of-death pattern in which so-called degenerative diseases (cardiovascular ...read more
Suetonius' Book "On Insult" in the Greek Lexicographic Tradition: a Study on the Varieties of Greek on the Basis of Artificial Lexicographic Material.

2023

Suetonius’ treatise “On Insults" is the sole surviving ancient work on the subject of verbal abuse, yet it still lacks a proper critical edition, an extensive commentary, a translation in ...read more
Suetonius' Book "On Insult" in the Greek Lexicographic Tradition: a Study on the Varieties of Greek on the Basis of Artificial Lexicographic Material

2023

Suetonius’ treatise “On Insults" is the sole surviving ancient work on the subject of verbal abuse, yet it still lacks a proper critical edition, an extensive commentary, a translation in ...read more
Gender
Linguistics
Postsecular Intersections: Christian Religion and Secularity in Dutch Novels after 2000

2023

In the second half of the twentieth century, Dutch authors such as Gerard Reve, Frans Kellendonk, Jan Siebelink and Désanne Van Brederode adopted an idiosyncratic stance toward the Christian tradition. ...read more
Contemporary
Literary studies
Narrative theory

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