Creatively operationalizing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ predicament that food is good to think with, I initiate a methodological conceptualization of food by exploring the ways in which it is apt to study ...read more
Het proefschrift behandelt Filafani, ‘Fila-stof‘ of door de Fila/Peul beschilderd moddertextiel, in de periode van 1997-2007 in de Senufo-gemeenschap van Folona in Zuid-Mali. In een combinatie van kunstwetenschappelijke en antropologische ...read more
This project aims at closing the gap between musical experience and the digital/electronic environments that provide this experience (see Leman, 2007). Solutions will be based on empirical methods and advanced ...read more
This research focuses on relevance marking in lectures. On the basis of an analysis of lectures from the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus, the lexicogrammatical devices are identified that ...read more
LOKSTAT is an interdisciplinary database of local and regional statistics on Belgium in the period 1800-1970. The data collections are based on the official censuses of the population, agriculture, trade ...read more
This project aims to contribute to the view that between 1450 and 1650, the (social and cultural) world of performative literature (esp. communal theatre) was at the nexus of a ...read more
In a society that constantly communicates through writing and conversation, clarity of documents is of crucial importance. Technical, governmental, medical and other documents must be understandable. But how clear are ...read more
A study of the obstacles for and strategies of pupils with and without an immigration background in secondary education. Between 2009-2012 this interuniversitary project focused on the educational trajectories of ...read more
This FWO-funded postdoctoral research project (2009-2012) examines how, why, and to what effect the memory of the Holocaust is invoked, mobilized, and represented in literary texts that connect the Nazi ...read more